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Advantages of Goat-Keeping. 



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Price of Goats. — Goats yielding less than two quarts at 

 kidding and occasionally goats giving more can be picked up 

 at low prices. Among the goats brought over from Ireland, 

 animals may sometimes be found which are excellent value. 

 Ordinarily, the price of goats is about £1 a quart up to two 

 quarts. Above that yield the rate rises. No owner of a gallon 

 goat would sell it for less than £10. A five-pint goat would 

 be cheap at £2 10s. and is seldom obtainable at that price. 

 Owing to the increasing interest in goat-keeping, good goats are 



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advertised for sale, and prices have risen ; but in many rural 

 districts serviceable goats can be got for sums within the small 

 holder's reach. The Rev. E. P. Boys-Smith observes : " A goat 

 which will give 600 lb. of milk, say 2 lb. daily, during ten 

 months, does fairly well in the way of profit. Of course she 

 will give much more daily during her second, third and fourth 

 months than in her eighth, ninth and tenth ; probably she will 

 give five times as much. But it is not too much to look for 

 800 lb. instead of 600 lb., and exceptional goats will range 



