INDEX 



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safeguard purchasers, 43 

 furnish lists of breeders, 43 

 furnish identification tags, 227 

 Record sheets, 197 

 Records of millc yields, necessary to 

 sale of stock, 54—56 

 in choice of a buck, 103-104 

 importance of, 196 

 system for keeping, 197, 198 

 Registered, see Record Associations 

 Registration, papers should be de- 

 manded, 42 

 necessary to remote herds, 54 

 tags 226-227 

 advanced, 198 

 Rennet for cheese, 60 

 Rewards of goat keeping, 51 

 Richness of goat milk, 18, 21, 79 

 Ringworm, treatment for, 208 

 Rope, for staking goats, 226 

 Rumen, punctured for bloat relief, 



210 

 Rutting season, see Breeding season 



Saanen goats, in Switzerland, 8 

 importations, 9, 16, 17 ; 



origin, 80 



characteristics, 80-84 

 bucks, for range herds, 52, 98 

 San Francisco, has contract for 



goat milk, 21 

 Sawdust, used for bedding, 126, 



137, 234 

 Scab, see Skin troubles 

 Scales, for weighing milk, 197 

 Schedules for feeding kids, 132, 139- 



140 

 Scrub goats, transformed by grad- 

 ing, 35 

 useful as household goats, 42, 43 

 quality and quantity of milk, 43 



buck, should never be used, 46 

 Scours, cause of, 133, 134 



treatment, in kids, 211-213 



in older goats, 214 

 Scurf, see Si^in troubles 

 Season, see Breeding season 

 Self-sucker, cause for, 157-158 



treatment for, 170 

 Separator, for goat milk, 63 

 Separation of the sexes, 114-115, 



117, 138 

 Service for bucks, how handled, 

 121-122 



limits for, 122 

 Shelves to sleep on, 234 

 Shows, see Livestock shows 

 Shipping goats, 248-249 



fever, 214 

 Silo for goats, 185-186 

 Size of goats. Standards, Anglo- 

 Nubian, 253 



Saanen, 254 



Toggenburg, 256, 257 

 Skin troubles, treatment for, 208 

 Sleeping arrangements for goats, 



233-234 

 Solid food for kids, 134, 138 

 Sorgums as feed for goats, 185 

 Soy beans, as feed for goats, 185 

 Spanish importations of milk goats, 



4, 5, 6 

 Staking, apparatus for, 168, 226-227 

 Stalls for goats, 234, 235 

 Stanchions for Ivids, 133 



for feed boxes, 229-230, 232-233 



for milking bench, 237, 239 

 Standards for the breeds, Anglo- 

 Nubian, 263 



Saanen, 254-256 

 Toggenburg, 256-257 

 Studs, proper standard for, 33 



