INDEX 



263 



Dairies, commercial goat mills, 33, 

 49, 243-246 

 home, 41, 242 

 location for, 55 

 Dairy type, in milk goats, described 

 in standards, 44 

 in Guadalupe goat, 14 

 in Mexican goats, 12, 14 

 in milk animals generally, 194 

 in southwest goats, 5-6 

 in Swiss goats, 8-9 

 in Swiss-Mexican cross, 11-12 

 Degeneracy of milk goats in Amer- 

 ica, 2 

 reasons for, 3 

 Dehorning range kids, 53 



see Disbudding 

 Delivery of goat milk, 50 

 Demand for milk goats, for pure 

 breds, 33-34 

 for grades, 34, 36 

 for household goats, 34 

 general, 40-51 

 Diarrhoea, see Scours 

 Digestion of goat milk, 23 

 Disbudding, 145-150 

 Discharge after kidding, 165 

 Dispositions of goats, 30, 69 

 of Anglo-Nubians, 78 

 of bucks, 117-118 

 Does, care of, 151-179 

 abortion 160-161 

 breeding age, 153-155 

 capricious, 178-179 

 developing a heavy milker, 172 



177 

 drying off, 158 

 feeding, 167-169, 191 

 fresh, 164, 191 

 gestation period, 161 

 goatling, 151-152 



kidding, 162 



lactation 177-178 



pregnancy, 158 



premature lactation, 157 



season, signs of, 155 



udder, 168, 177 



watering, 169 



yield, 177 

 Dogs, for herding goats, 159 

 Drainage for goat corrals, 224, 234 

 crates, 249 

 houses, 227 



kid boxes, 135 



milking rooms, 236 

 Droppings of goats, indication of 

 sickness, 203 



value as fertilizer, 224 

 Drying off a milk goat, 158, 178 



Ears of Anglo-Nubians, 77 

 of kids at birth, 131 

 of Swiss goats, 83 

 Economic basis of the milk goat 

 industry, 40 

 importance of the milk goat in- 

 dustry in the American col- 

 onies, 1, 2 

 in the old world, 1 

 in primitive conditions, 3 

 in twentieth century America, 

 20 

 independence, from garden, chick- 

 ens and milk goat, 11 

 wealth of the nation increased by 

 goats, 72 

 Economical production of goat 



milk, 28, 32, 50 

 Emulsion of fat in goat milk, 23, 63 

 Enemas, use of, 203, 211, 213, 219 

 England, source of native stock, so- 

 called, 13-14 



