8 PROFIT AND PLEASURE 



HEALTH GIVING PROPERTIES. 



Goat's milk needs but a trial to demonstrate its wonderful 

 efficiency as a health builder. Testimonials in support of this 

 statement from scientific men, physicians and laymen in all P^^^ 

 of the world could be furnished without limit, if necessary. The 

 case is put so concisely by Dr. Knox of Danbury, Conn., that I 

 take pleasure in quoting the following from a letter written by 

 him in 1913 : 



"I have practiced medicine over forty years, as a general prac- 

 tioner and consultant. In the past twenty years, office practice 

 mostly. During that time I have had hundreds of babies and chil- 

 dren brought to my office in all stages of malnutrition. Most of 

 them had been treated by skillful physicians with all the generally 

 approved foods and. medication in vogue without benefit, and 

 death seemed inevitable in many of the cases. Dr. Knox was the 

 last resort of many anxious parents. All these little sufferers were 

 put upon goat's milk whenever it could be obtained, as soon as 

 possible and to their great benefit. The milk was sucked from a 

 bottle, warm, and direct from the goat, not drank but sucked to 

 insure more perfect digestion. Drugs were cast aside and in their 

 place hygienic surroundings, sunlight, air, bathing, etc., was the 

 only treatment. I wish to state that in every case improvement 

 and good health followed. The milk of the goat is nearly identi- 

 cal in its composition to human milk, and makes the most per- 

 fect food for all invalids and children, particularly those having 

 weak digestion or those recovering from disease. To get the full 

 benefit from milk, it must be sucked through a nipple for child- 

 ren, a glass tube or straw for adults, as the saliva is its most active 

 and principal solvent previous to its digestion and assimilation. 

 By drinking it we are deprived of the saliva upon which success 

 greatly depends. I can give many, many instances of chronic dys- 

 pepsia, gastritis, malnutrition, etc., in adults that are today in per- 

 fect health by its use alone, through my recommendation. In my 

 own family, I keep Guernseys for their butter, but for fifteen years 

 goats for milk that is wholesome, clean and free from tubercular 

 deposits. It is most gratifying to me today to see prominent medi- 

 cal men in most all the medical journals of Europe and America 

 recommending the use of goat's milk for the identical purposes 

 that I have just referred to, also frequent articles in all the great 

 daily papers and magazines of recent date calling people's atten- 

 tion to the manifold service to humanity that can be derived from 

 our most valuable little milking-machine, "The Goat." 



"Yours most respectfully, 



"LOUIS G. KNOX, M. D." 



A large majority of those now engaged as breeders became 

 interested because of the fact that the milk had proven beneficial 

 to them or some member of their family. My personal experience 

 with it has been most remarkable. Suffice it to say that after suf- 

 fering from indigestion for many years, I took to it as a last resort 

 and decided to make myself "like" the milk, but to my surprise 

 found that all the traditions which had been handed down about 

 the milk being "strong" and of an objectionable flavor were pure 

 fiction. The taste was delicious and while always fond of cow's 

 milk, although unable to digest it, I found goat's milk much more 



