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twice a day, and let observation and experience guide 

 you as to the amount needed. The only rule is, give the 

 animal all the hay it will eat. 



With concentrates the case is quite different. These 

 rich feeds must be dealt out with caution, yet with 

 sufficient generosity to ensure the desired results. For 

 kids, goatlings, and bucks, the estimate would be one 

 pound for every hundred pounds body weight. The 

 same for a doe giving milk at the rate, say, of two 

 quarts a day. Add to this grain ration a little. 

 If the milk increases, continue to add, until fur- 

 ther increase of the grain ration produces no further 

 increase of the milk yield. Two pounds a day of con- 

 centrates, with abundant good hay and succulent feed, is 

 probably the outside limit needed even by a very heavy- 

 producing doe. 



Feeding Summary. — To sum up these general sug- 

 gestions for feeding goats, we offer to the consideration 

 of the goat keeper the old adage which Henry and Mor- 

 rison adopt as the motto of their scientific volume 

 on feeding: 



" The eye of the Master fattens his cattle." 



No science, no formulse, however exhaustive, can re- 

 place in the dairy herd that wisdom which springs only 

 from constant thoughtful observation of the individual 

 animals and their needs, a wisdom which finds its reward 



