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jaw extends beyond the upper, showing the teeth. The ears are 

 frequently very large, long, and droopy, or they may be short and 

 pointed. The color is very bright brown or black. The hair is 

 short on some specimens and long on others. The udder is large 

 and the lobes are deeply divided, with very good-sized teats. This 

 is one of the highest types of milch goats, is credited with as 

 much as ten to twelve quarts of milk a day, and is said to rarely 



give less than four quarts 

 per day. This breed has 

 been crossed on other goats 

 to special advantage. Nu- 

 bian goats are very docile. 

 They lack hardiness, be- 

 ing quite unable to with- 

 stand cold. 



The Anglo-Nubian goat 

 orginated from crossing 

 the prick-eared common 

 English goat with the lop- 

 eared Nubian. Crossbred 

 goats of this ancestry were 

 shown in England as far 

 back as 1875, at the first 

 goat show held at the Crys- 

 tal Palace, and since then 

 it has been continuously 

 before the British public. 

 Pegler regards it as a dis- 

 tinct breed. Thompson, however, gives it a very incidental refer- 

 ence. Pegler specifies the following as points of an Anglo- Nubian : 



Coat short throughout, with no fringe of long hair on the back or long 

 tufts on the flanks ; color preferably black and tan, or reddish-brown, with or 

 without black or black-and-white markings, but free from white streaks on the 

 sides of the face, which would indicate Swiss blood. The horns, if any, should 

 be small and curve downwards and outwards, rather than directly upwards. 

 The ears must be long, wide, and pendulous, or semi-pendulous, but not broken 

 or twisted. The facial line should be somewhat arched, the head neat, with a 

 slight taper toward the muzzle, which is small, and in the female without 

 beard. The eye should be large and full, and the forehead wide. 



Fig. 319. Phyllis, an imported Toggenburg 



doe showing a very great development of 



the udder. From photograph, by courtesy of 



Professor F. K. Cooke, Winnetka, Illinois 



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