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MODERN MILK GOATS 



cause of their eagerness and their immense, unwieldy 

 strength, never tlie outcome of intentional attack. A 

 headstrong buck in a tremendous hurry to get to a wait- 



.. ing doe can be easih' con- 

 trolled by a firm grip on 

 his beard and a tap on his 

 nose with a small switch. 

 If, however, the keeper 

 habitually loses his tem- 

 per and strikes or kicks 

 his buck, real viciousness 

 is in time aroused, and the 

 animal, even though horn- 

 less, becomes dangerous. 

 There is not the slightest 

 necessity of such an occur- 

 rence. A full grown buck 

 weighing, say, two bun- 

 ded fifty pounds, is an al- 

 most unbelievably power- 

 ful creature. Yet there 

 are many herds where the 

 entire charge of tlie l)uck 

 and the breeding is in the liands of women, sometimes 

 small, light women, who have no difficulty at all in 

 controlling these huge, impetuous, powerful animals. 



Fig. 35.— The best of pals. 



