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Suitability for Small Holders. — Owing to their small size and 

 accommodating nature in respect of food, no one can derive 

 more advantage from goats or manage them more conveniently 

 than the small holder and the cottager. A goat does not do 

 well on meadow grass alone. It needs variety in its food. 

 No hay pleases it so well as that which is made of the mixed 

 herbage growing at the roadside or along the hedges. 

 Garden refuse is particularly acceptable to goats and they 

 appreciate all sorts of green stuff, leaves, prunings, potatoes, 



"SEDGEMERE FAITH," ALPINE GOAT. 



bread, horse-chestnuts^ acorns, and, of course, roots, corn and 

 mashes. They eat some things not considered good for cattle, 

 but it is well to prevent them having access to privet berries, 

 cut yew, rhododendrons, monks-hood, lords and ladies, fox- 

 j gloves and sweet briar, though healthy goats ordinarily avoid 

 these things. 



Tethering. — If goats can be given their liberty on a common 

 or hillside, this is much the best way of enabling them to pick, 

 up their living, but many goats must, of necessity, be tethered. 

 This can be done with an iron peg, provided at its head with 



