‘The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Goats for Milk 
On page 1423 there are inquiries and 
suggestions regarding the practicability 
of keeping goats for the production of 
milk. This question comes up for dis¬ 
cussion every little while. But no prac¬ 
tical results seem to follow. Some years 
ago I spent several weeks in a locality 
where quite a large number of goats were 
kept, and I made a careful study of the 
problem from a practical standpoint. And 
the truth is, as I learned from many 
owners, that while goats will respond to 
good care and good feed, so far as milk 
is concerned, they are by no means as 
profitable as ordinary cows, under these 
conditions. If, however, one has a field 
so rough and stony as to defy all at¬ 
tempts at cultivation, and which is so 
covered with brakes, hardback, sweet fern, 
goldenrod, or other bushes or weeds, as 
to be worthless for pasturage for other 
stock, a flock of goats may thrive, reclaim 
the pasture, and, at the same time, fur¬ 
nish a little milk, a fair quality of meat 
and a small quantity of a kind of wool 
which has considerable value for certain 
purposes. They will thrive during the 
Winter upon a diet of straw and the 
coarsest of cornstalks, or the lowest grade 
of hay. Thus they may furnish a me¬ 
dium for the transformation of waste 
forage into products having a commercial 
value, and just enough goats to consume 
the waste forage will be profitable on 
almost any farm. Beyond this, though 
they may return a profit, they are less 
profitable than either cows or sheep. 
C. O. OBMSBEE. 
Angoras as Milch Goats 
I should like detailed information re¬ 
garding Angora goats, chiefly where their 
inferiority to the Swiss goat comes in, 
which most people seem to take for grant¬ 
ed. Is their milk inferior, or the cheese 
or butter obtained thereof? As far as I 
have known myself, goat butter can be 
sold at a very good price. Can you give 
me the name of a wholesale druggist who 
deals in it? I would like to hear opinions 
of those who know the Angora goats, so 
that I may know if best to keep the small 
flock I have or not. H. E. S. 
Cornwallville, X. Y. 
The Angora goat is kept for mohair, 
which deteriorates after the fifth year, 
when the goat is sold for meat. The hide 
is a by-product, but one of importance, 
for during the last fiscal year the United 
States imported from British East India 
alone $20,000,000 worth of goat skins. 
Very rarely do the Angoras have more 
than one kid at birth, and if they do give 
birth to two they seldom have enough 
milk for both. It is a single-purpose ani¬ 
mal. and. although the milk is the same as 
the milch goats, the quantity is so small 
that they are worthless as a class from 
the dairy viewpoint. If II. E. S. ■wants 
goats for their milk he would better dis¬ 
pose of his Angoras and buy milch goats, 
or he can buy a buck of a milk breed and 
cross him upon his does, and if his buck 
is good, have a herd of fair milkers in 
two or three years. I have a doe boarding 
which was milking one pint when she 
came here.in November. She had kidded 
early last Spring and, I am told, milked 
two quarts all Summer. Her dam is an 
Angora and her sire a three-quarter Tog- 
genburg. 
Prior to the war, goat butter retailed 
for $1 per pound in New York City to 
the peoples of Eastern Europe. This was 
imported. We of America have never 
made goat butter in any quantity. I think 
II. E. S. h as in mind condensed goat milk 
instead of butter. There is one plant on 
the Pacific Coast which handles the milk 
of about 5,000 goats. This condensed wilk 
is sold by druggists. M. G. s. 
New Jersey. 
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A Goat Man's Experience 
Now comes the question of goats. V e 
have had them for the lust two years 
(grade Toggenburgs). 'While I cannot | 
say they have been a paying proposition, 
as' we did not get enough milk to supply 
our needs, what we did get was so 
much superior to what the ordinary subur¬ 
banite does get we should hate to be with¬ 
out it. Owing to illness last year no com¬ 
plete record was kept, but this year we 
are planning to keep accurate account of 
expenses and milk yield and be better 
able to tell what our milk costs. 
I have two does and two kids at pres¬ 
ent. One doe was fresh this week. For 
the two days she has been milked I got 
almost two quarts each day, and the 
other doe has been milking 13 months and 
now giving one and one-half pints per 
day, which we consider pretty good. My 
plan now is to keep four milking does, 
having two to freshen at the same time 
so that we can have the milk of one for 
our use and the milk of the other to be 
used for kids. 
The two difficulties with goats for the 
commuter are the high cost and scarcity 
of good goats and the keeping of the 
buck. The latter could be overcome if 
some farmer could be persuaded to keep 
one and run it with bis sheep. The first 
difficulty I can only see one way out, buy 
a good goat and breed up. 
Our goats are stall-fed, but have the 
run of a lot in the Summer time. I 
am for goats first, last and all the time, 
and if anybody starts in goat-keeping, 
don’t be too easily discouraged, as we 
had some pretty hard knocks, but we are 
anything but discouraged. 
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