INDEX 



271 



Waste lands, used for goats, 52, 58, 



73 

 Weaning, age for, 140 



buck kids, 115 



condition at time of, 142-143 

 Weight of milli goats, bucks, when 

 weaned, 142 



bucks, mature, 118 



kids, 130, 138, 142 



at breeding, 154 



standard for, 253, 254, 256-257 

 Wethers, meat of, 65 



companions for bucks, 116 

 Women, relation to the industry, 

 68-75 



able to handle bucks, 118 

 Worms, treatment for, 220 



Yield of milk goats, 24-26 

 basis of price, 37 

 of Anglo-Nubians, 79 

 of dam and family, establishes the 



price of a buck, 104 

 under French methods, 167 

 heavy yields, object in choice of 



buck, 103 

 relation to age of breeding, 154 

 of Swiss goats, 84 

 of young goats, first kidding, 177 



