WHY NOT KEEP GOATS?

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 155, 28 December 1918, Page 4

WHY NOT KEEP GOATS?

Goat keeping for milking purpose* deserves' far more attention in New Zealand than it is at present receiving, states the Journal of Agriculture. We have only to look round and see tha large number of -unoccupied or partlyoccupied sections, and patches of ruugh, hilly ground growing nothing but scrub and \veeds adjacent to many workers* homes, to recognise that there is a splendid opening for people with limited capital to bring these into profitable use with much benefit to themselves and good results to the land. Thousands of acre* at present lying idle in small patches all over the country could be leased at a mere nominal rent, or even secured rent-free in return for keeping down the weeds. Again, many home sections in our outer suburban district* are large enough to run a milking-goat; tethering can be largely practised in' such situations. Goats a» a means for supplying the home with a pun, wholesome milk up to three or four quarts a day, according to the bleed, have, indeed, been woefiilfy neglected in 'New Zealand, the Journal holds,, "especially when We tee what beneficial advances have been made in that respect all over the world. This apathy is probably largely due to the fact that animals of good milkingstrains have not been " imported."