"THE POOR MAN'S COW"

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 122, 23 May 1908, Page 15

"TH E PO OR MAN'S COW"

' ."^dme-, Counties" X a « tllo r 'of ','"pie. Case for 'the, -Goat"), .in directing the at- ; ' tention of the "British- ■publid, to .the advantages of the goat' /is a produqer ot m.iik,,'' J has done an excellent service. Goats can bo bought for a comparatively Ismail • sura ; they cost very little to keeg ; they can be housed almost as easily at the end of a suburban garden as in tho fehed of a cotl&r; they are tractable creatures; tbey yield riiilk' freely, .inany of tljem five gallons a week or more.'; the milk is of superior quality to' that of the po\y — it. is for children the very bfcst subBtitute>,for hUnian milk', and it maty be drunk, j practically" without any ripk of ' tubercular infection. \ These faqts, se<j forth in some detail in 'the little book : teforo us, cannot be common knowledge, pr - We should find that goata would do [far more numerous in this country than ihey aTe. There is a widespread belief .that goat's milk has a peculiar , taste, 'but' -there' seems to be really no ' good -ground ,. for • this, provided ' tlje UnVmal 'is' kept" tinder' proper 'conditions..' In. fact, "Home Counties" 'assures us that" people who taste clean goat[s .milk for |the' first time are unable to distinguish it, from cow's milk except by its greater and sweetness. * It is unfortunate that tl}e Board of Ag'ridulture does nothing "to encourage the beeping of 'goats. It does not, include 'goats in its 'annual census, it issues no official leaflet for the use of breeders as is done on the Continent, and it will not permit the importation of hew blood — some of tho finest breeds of goats qre on the Continent — even under quarantine restrictions, for fear of introducing, foot-and-mouth disease. , But ; surely conditions could be imposed which would , obviate .any risk* in_ this .respect. "Hoinp.Cdun'tios" certainly makes out an ' "excellent' ;case for thD goaf and supplies just ,<;he particulars 'which any pno, 'desiring 'to .keep a goat should know. ' He has, moreover, induced a number of experts — "from 'peeresses- to farmers"-— l io relate their experiences/ "and Sheso, printed as ,an appendix, will to tho anxious enquirer , prove very useful. ' x 'Altogether the book, .which contains 1 many illustrations, can bo ; retebnunond-ed _as «_ thoroughly .trust'wprthy and' interesting manual on the 'subiecfc of which it 4reata.— Westminster Gazette. '