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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 25, 1910 
Goat Experiences 
In your issue of December 28. 1018. 
A. Cochran requests information about 
the milch goat. As we have depended on 
goat milk for home use for the past four 
years, our experience may be of interest. 
We now have a good milch goat, a grade 
with some Toggenburg blood, which gives 
three quarts a day, of fine rich milk, when 
she first comes in, and gives milk for 
Nancy 
about 10 months, in gradually decreasing 
quantity. I have seen a goat which has 
given milk for two years steadily without 
being bred, and is now giving about a pint 
a day. 
but it does not sour as quickly, and the 
cream does not separate as quickly. We 
have never had the milk tested in any 
way, so T cannot make any statement as 
to the amount of butterfat it contains. I 
could write volumes about the care of 
goats, about the ones I've bought which 
have been worthless, about the fascinat¬ 
ing ways of the kids, but your questioner 
may not care for all those details, so I 
will close by saying that our slogan is: 
“Long live the goat, the friend of the 
suburbanite.” Florence tarreix. 
Massachusetts. 
The Dog on the Battle Field 
We have all had our say regarding the 
cur and the sheep killer. Let us give all 
sides a hearing. Here is a statement 
from the London Farm and Home about 
the part dogs played in the great war. 
It seems that under the new English dog 
laws many dogs were gathered in for 
slaughter. Some of these were taken to 
France and trained as scouts. 
Message Carriers— Numbers of men 
and dogs have been trained at tin* War 
Dog School and have gone to France, the 
dogs to act as message carriers in the 
field, and the men to take charge of them 
as their keepers. The skill, courage and 
tenacity of these dogs have been amazing. 
During heavy barrages, when all other 
communications have been cut, the mes¬ 
senger dogs have made their way, and in 
many cases have brought messages of 
vital import. Sometimes they have been 
wounded in the performance of their du¬ 
ties, and there is a wonderful record of 
the determination with which wounded 
dogs have persisted in their duty. In the 
same way, the record continues of suc¬ 
cessful message-carrying through dark¬ 
ness, mist, rain, and shell-fire, and over 
every sort of difficult ground. Many a 
time has a dog brought a message in a 
few minutes over ground that would take 
a runner hours to cross. 
Saved a Terrible Disaster. —During 
the great German assault this year part 
of our line in front of a famous town was 
cut off by severe enemy barrage. A mes¬ 
senger dog was released with an urgent 
appeal for reinforcements. It ran three 
kilometres in 10 minutes. A French 
colonial division was sent up and saved 
the situation, otherwise there would have 
been a terrible disaster. This dog was a 
Highland sheep dog. On many other 
occasions messenger dogs have been taken 
up with our assaulting troops, and have 
carried back details of the captured posi¬ 
tions to brigade headquarters, whereby 
the state of affaire could be accurately 
gauged and acted upon without delay. 
On one of these occasions a dog ran six 
kilometres in 20 minutes, while in another 
case a dog carried back a map of an im¬ 
portant position in 20 minutes, when a 
man would have taken an hour and a half 
to bring it in. In positions where run¬ 
ners have been unable to move at all 
messenger dogs have carried out their 
mission faultlessly. The breeds that 
have given the beet results for this work 
have been collies, sheep dogs, lurchers, 
and Airedales, and crosses of these varie¬ 
ties, while in several cases Welsh and 
Irish terriers of the large type have given 
excellent results. 
Sentry Dogs. —Sentry dogs have been 
employed in the Balkans. As an exam¬ 
ple of their vigilance, it may be stated 
that one dog gave warning of an enemy 
scout at a distance of 300 yards, and on 
many occasions the presence of enemy 
patrols was notified by the dogs before 
our sentries were aware of their presence. 
Large numbers of dogs Have been 
trained as watchers and guards. Some 
of these have been sent to the Italian 
front, while others are in use wherever 
there are valuable stores, etc., to be 
guarded. By this means large numbers 
of men have been released for other du¬ 
ties. and vulnerable spots of vital im¬ 
portance have been rendered secure. 
Fistulous Wound 
Can you advise me in regard to a 
lameness in my horse’s leg just above the 
hoof? There is a running sore in his 
fetlock just above the hoof. I use tur¬ 
pentine on it, and when it heals it will 
swell and in a short time break out. 
There is pus running from the sore most 
of the time. When sore is healed so pus 
does not How he is very lame, but when 
it flows lie is not so lame. C. s. c. 
New York. 
It is to be suspected that there is a 
foreign body, such as a sliver or snag in 
the wound, and it causes the formation 
of pus. A veterinarian should be em¬ 
ployed to probe for and remove the for¬ 
eign object. Probing must be done very 
carefully, for it may transpire that the 
fluid issuing from the wound is not pus 
but synovia (joint oil). Rough probing 
might greatly aggravate the condition 
present. Until you can have a veteri¬ 
narian attend to the case clip off the hair, 
wash the skin thoroughly, and apply a 
1-1.000 solution of bichloride of mercury 
as a disinfectant. Afterward cover the 
part with absorbent cotton upon which 
has been freely sprinkled a mixture of 
one part each of calomel and tannic acid 
and six parts of boric acid. Renew the 
dressing twice daily.. a. s. a 
My goat experience began when I 
bought a bred doe which was to freshen 
about three months after I bought her. 
A goat should not have kids until she is 
at least two years old, but she was only 
a year old when her kid, a buck, came. 
I did not understand caring for her and 
William Penn of Keewaydin 
did not feed her milk-producing rations, 
so she gave very little milk, not enough 
to develop her kid properly, and she was 
badly infested with lice, which I did not 
know enough to get rid of, so it is no 
wonder she died. I have since learned 
that the ordinary lice powder which is 
used for hens will be just as effective for 
goats. My next venture was a lucky 
one. for Nancy, our three-quart doe, came 
to us. and has stayed for four years. She 
is not of an amiable disposition with 
strangers, but is very gentle with me. I 
learned one lesson from breeding her to 
Faith , Hope and Charity 
the undersized buck kid which I raised, 
that is, that it pays to use a vigorous, 
well-grown sire, for the kids from the 
little buck were small and did not develop 
as they should, in marked contrast to the 
1018 kids (doe triplets, Faith, Hope and 
Charity), who are a credit to their mother 
and their father, the latter being a pure¬ 
bred registered Toggenburg buck, son of 
a five-quart mother, and bought through 
a R. N.-Y. advertiser. 
We think there is no milk like goat’s 
milk and use it for every purpose, even 
making butter and cheese from it. The 
taste is the same as that of cow’s milk, 
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