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of Toggenburgs, 256 

 of weaned kids, 142 

 Coat, canvas, for sick goats, etc., 

 instructions for making, 200- 

 202 

 uses of, 165, 170, 202, 216 

 Cocoanut meal, 192 

 Colic, treatment for, 209 

 Colds, treatment for, 214. 

 Collars for goats, 226 

 Color of goat milk, 20 

 of goat butter, 64 

 of goats, Anglo-Nubians, 77, 253 

 Saanens, 81, 254 

 Toggenburgs, 82, 256, 257 

 Colonies, milk goats in the Amer- 

 ican, 1, 2 

 Colostrum, 124, 127 

 Commercial herds, 33, 40, 49 

 Common goat, so-called, 2, 68 

 Community of breeders, contribu- 

 tory to condensary, 18 

 bucks, 47 



herds, management, 46-67 

 opportunity for women, 75 

 Companionship necessary for bucks, 

 115, 116 

 for doe just fresh, 162, 164 

 for household goats, 45 

 Composition of goat milk, 251-252 

 Concentrates, 187, 189 

 Concrete dangerous for goat barns, 

 228 

 necessary for milking rooms, 236 

 Condensary for goat milk, 18 

 Constipation, treatment for, 210-211 

 Constitution, affected by confine- 

 ment, 167-168 

 of bucks, necessity for testing, 

 112-113 

 indications of, 263 



of Swiss goats, 84 

 see Vitality 

 Cooling milk, 242 

 Copper sulphate, use of, 208, 220 

 Cord of new born kid, 126, 127 

 Corn for green feed, 185 



nutritive ratio, 181 

 Corrals for goats, 224^225 

 Cost of equipment for goats, 249 

 of goats, bucks, 36-37, 38, 103-10+ 

 grades, 37 

 natives, 37 



pure breds, 36, 37, 41 

 justification for, 40 

 for labor not charged against 



household goats, 38 

 of maintenance as pets, 30 

 of production of goat milk, 26-28 

 Coughs, treatment for, 214 

 Cow, conditions advantageous to, 4 

 disadvantageous to, 7, 28 

 milk compared with goat milk 

 acidity, 23. 

 carrier of tuberculosis, 21 

 color, 20 

 curd, 23 



fat globule, 22-23 

 nourishing value, 38 

 richness, 21 

 taste, 20-21 

 milk used to feed kids, 133 

 cause of scours, 212 

 Crates for shipping goats, 248-249 

 Cream from goat milk, 63 

 Crepin, M., authority on milk goats, 



167-168 

 Crops for stall fed goats, 185 

 Crown Prince of the Sceni, im- 

 ported buck, 11 

 Curd, of goat and cow milk, 23 

 of cow milk, not digestible by 

 small kids, 133 



