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milk, and oat bread; they convert part of it into butter, 

 and fome into cheefe. The flefli of the kid is confidered 

 as a great rarity ; and, when properly prepared, is efteem- 

 ed, by fome, as little inferior to venifon, 



The Goat produces generally two young at a time, 

 fometimes three, rarely four : In warmer climates, it is 

 more prolific, and produces four or five at once ; though 

 the breed is found to degenerate. The male is capable 

 of propagating at one year old, and the female at feven 

 months ; but the fruits of a generation fo premature are 

 generally weak and defective : Their beft time is at the 

 age of two years, or eighteen months at leaft. 



The Goat is a fhort-lived animal, full of ardour, but 

 foon enervated. His appetite for the female is exceffive, 

 fo that one buck is fufficient for one hundred and fifty 

 females. 



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