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INDEX 



Phytolacca ointment, use of, 216 

 Placenta, see After-birth 

 Pneumonia, treatment of, 204-206 



Anglo-Nubians liable to, 79 

 Poisonous plants on ranges, 183 



information concerning, 219 



cause of bloat, 209 

 Popularity of milk goats, accounted 

 for, 20-31 



not a fad, 32 

 Pox, treatment for, 206-207 

 Precocity of goats, 114 

 Pregnant does, care of, 158, 160 

 Prejudice against goats, 20, 195 

 Price of goats, see Cost 



of milk, 50 



of cheese, 63 



of fertilizer, 67 

 Prince Bismarck, imported buck, 10 

 Productivity of milk goats, of the 

 imported Swiss goats, 9 



of Swiss Mexican crosses, 14 



of different classes, 24^26 



ceases on brush diet, 184 



must be evidenced in pedigree of 

 buck, 34, 104 

 Production, economy of, in milk 



goats, 28, 32 

 Profitable milk goats, Anglo- 

 Nubians, 14—15 



grades, 35 



native stock, 24, 68 



pure breds, 40 



above cost of upkeep, 27-28 



contracts for milk, 50 



use of waste land, 51 

 Profits from kids, 38, 50 



milk, 38 



cheese, 59 



commercial herds, 40, 55 



meat, 65-66 



Programs for feeding, 190-193 

 Prolapse, treatment for, 217-218 

 Proteins, 180-182 



Pumpkins as succulent feed, 185 

 Pure bred milk goats, cost of, 37 



registry of, 17 



supply and demand for, 33-34 



as household goats, 41 



bucks for grading up, 34—35 

 for range herds, 52 

 for household goats, 46 



Quality of goat milk, 20-24 



from scrub doe, 43 

 Quantity of milk yields, 24-26 



of feed required for goats, 26 

 187-189 

 Quarantine against imported milk 

 goats, 9 

 surmounted by four importations 



15, 17 

 ol)stacle to rapid growth of the 

 industry, 34 



Range for milk goats when profit- 

 able, 51, 52 



value to milk herds, 166-167, 184 



acreaj^e of, per goat, 183 



poisonous plants on, 183 

 Range herds, bucks for, 85 



houses for, 227-228 



management of, 58-54 

 Ratio, nutritive, 180 

 Rations, balanced, 180-182, 192-193 



differences of opinion concerning, 

 96 



for kids, 116, 138 

 Record Associations, A. M. G. R. A., 

 15 



system of registry, 15 



I. N. B. A., 17 



