PROFIT MADE FROM GOATS.
AN ENTERPRISING SETTLER. The gathering and sale of goats have become a profitable side line with at least one back-blocks settler in Taranaki. During the past few months ho has collected from abandoned sections and others in the country between the back of Uruti and Whangamomona some 2600 of the animals, arid despatched them to the Wairarapa and other districts. They have averaged about 12s a head. The goats were rounded up by packs of specially trained dogs, and are the descendants of small flocks that were introduced to the back country a few years ago for the purpose of eating off "®. poisonous tutu. Goats thrive on tutu, cattl' k°'' vever » ' 8 to 3heep and
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20114, 27 November 1928, Page 6
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119PROFIT MADE FROM GOATS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20114, 27 November 1928, Page 6
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