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Lack of water may be the reason why the Sempervivume have shown 
so little increese, . 
Cultiveted Violets and Iris cristate now dorment for the remainder 
of'the yeer. Violets due to appear long before frosts are over: but 
the cristates not before the Piet of April. 
Due to milk shortaze in meny places, more “eople then, usvuel ere 
considsrins buying a milk goat. We have hed from one: to severel since 
Raloh ves big enough to cere for her, end si°find. them en ecouomical 
source of milk of high Qui la ty [Pers ove ley me ¢éo not lixe goat's milk 
because of the high suger content, tastes like cow's milk sweetened. 
‘hen using goat's milk with cereel, I do not acd other suger; plenty in. 
the milk: but this extré sweetness is not objectionel’ to most veonple.. 
The bea smell of goats is cherecteristic of the males, mob Mf the apes; 
About seven does cen be kept on whet feed would be needed for one cow, 
and the seven will give more milk t’ an the ‘cow,. cIt is:surprising the’ 
emount of. goat feed which is normelly vroduced in a gerden,. When our 
family numbered seven end our gardeh e little over a ah ranch omamere pO Loo! 
acre, we produced all tne roucheaze Relph's Nennie Ete. Pete Dar bso tla 
pe IL ee Oy «At Oat which she returned choice meet from buck kids, and 
when kids were weaned, three quarts of rich milk ee day for eeverat 
months: and during her dry periods, a fermer wes gled to have her in 
hasanasture, tor her browsing on brush. 
Corn stalks,. pee and been vines, pea end bean hulls, enc sweet 
potato vines end leaves 511 meke fine goat hay; while ol) UA DOer sai Genre. 
rots, end other, root enops, outside leeves of cebbage cud lettuce; tops 
of root crops, etc. substitute for silege; and -eers of corn which be- | 
came too dry for roasting ecrs wes allowed to. ripen: for winter @rein. 
The smell cmount of boughten feed she needed left the cost of her milk 
very. low indeed, 
Voung does, during first milking period give about helf what may 
be exvected of them when mature. Ruth, the young doe I em milking now, 
freshened first week of March, this yeer, with a mele kid, At six 
weeks, we butchered anc ate the kid, fine me.t fully equal to lamb. 
From thet time on, she gave two quertsofmilk daily, until recently ~ 
when she began to dry off, for her rest before freshening again, Will 
freshen twice in less then e year, DT have never churneé her milk | 
separately, just strain it into ine chutn with the cow's creem; but 
recently, the child of « neighbor beceme sick end the doctor prescrib- 
6d goat's milk. 1 loaned Ruth to them for © week or sO, ond our butter 
yield wes cut almost in‘hel?f. 
Carrie, another doe of ours; which freshened @lso in Marchs had 
twin does, and after the kics were veaned aud sold, gave full Lites 
quarts daily until I sold her. A stable 5x6 ft. is emole room for one 
goat. <A broad shelf should be fixed at one sice, hendy height for the 
m1 er, cnd feed box above this, The soet will naturelly aleco on the 
shelf, ’and should be trained to hop up on the shelf for feed and to be 
milked, which seves stooving for the milker. Ruth meets me et the 
gate -s I eporoach with milk bucket ana feed (letter in a coffee cen). 
‘Mow get in there and hop up on it; like ¢ ledy* I snep at her. Ane 
she goes into her stable, Jumps up on the shelf end weits for me. 
Ralvh built her stable, .6xl0 ft. from mill slebs and waste lumber. 
Ren a vartition across it, giving two rooms, ®x6 ft, One is her < 
stablé, the other her feed room, with outsice door, Asice from his 
labor, I doubt if the building cost ae | fd r 
