Notices of Books. 



[July, 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



British Goat Society's Year Book, 1922. — (Compiled and issued 

 by the Hon Secretary, Thomas W. Palmer, 5, Fenchurch Street, London, E.C.3. 

 Price Is. 6d.) The second issue of the Britisli Goat Society's Year Book 

 contains much information which should prove useful and interesting both 

 to goat keepers and to many who may consider the keeping of goats. 



The Society has been in existence for many years and has done much to 

 assist the development of goat keeping and to further the interests of goat 

 keepers in Great Britain and Ireland. The objects of the Society are stated 

 to be : — 



(a) To circulate knowledge and general information upon goats with 

 a view to counteracting the prejudices and ignorance which prevail in a 

 great degree concerning these animals. 



(6) To extend and encourage the keeping of goats, particularly by 

 cottagers, so as to increase the supply and consumption of milk in 

 rural districts where this article is frequently unobtainable. 



(c) To improve the various breeds of goats and specially to develop 

 those qualities which are generally recognised and valued in milch stock. 

 The Society, which now consists of several thousand members, has for 

 many years carried on an active campaign in favour of the goat, and it is due 

 to the Society that any reliable pedigrees and records of the milking qualities 

 of goats in this country are available. Such importations of foreign blood as 

 have been made from time to time in the past with the object of improving 

 the quality of British goats have been due mainly, if not entirely, to the 

 British Goat Society, and it is to its efforts and the work of its affiliated 

 societies that goat shows and classes for goats at agricultural shows have 

 been organised on more extensive lines. The milking trials held under the 

 regulations of the British Goat Society and the distinguishing descriptions 

 awarded to good milkers and their progeny under the Society's regulations 

 have done much to improve the milking qualities of British goats. 



Mr. Reginald Pease, Chairman of the Committee, states that " during the 

 past year a few animals were exported to some of our colonies and elsewhere 

 and there is no reason why a lucrative and much larger trade should not be 

 done in this direction." 



An article is contributed by Mr. Arthur W. Abbey, entitled " The Goat and 

 Agriculture," in which he gives his experiences of the value of the goat as an 

 agent in the improvement of pasture land. 



In an article on Goat's Milk, Doctor B. D. Z. Wright states that many 

 infants suffering from what is commonly called "marasmus" have been saved 

 by goat's milk, and that many more might be saved if they had the chance of 

 being reared on goat's milk instead of tinned condensed and dried substitutes 

 for mothers' milk. He also refers to the freedom of goat's milk from tubercle 

 bacilli as an enormous asset. 



An article on goat keeping in Holland by Mr. P. A. Francis gives a brief 

 description of the remarkable development of goat keeping in Holland during 

 recent years. The fact that according to official figures there were in the 



