THE POOR MAN’S COW

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8179, 22 July 1912, Page 4

THE POOR MAN’S COW

GOATS AND THEIR ADVANTAGES. . As the goat is sniall, its milk yield is small, but as to the quality of its milk there can be no question. .That it is richer than cows’ in ilk almost everyone knows by tu:s time. But the fact that it may be relied upon .to be In almost every case strictly non-tubercnlous is to many people the greatest thing in its favour. Because the goat can be kept in the suburbs almost as well as in the country, goatkeeping is a matter not only for rural, but for urban readers. The health, u goats one can meet are often those living in slums. Such, animals can seldom get a taste of grass. Undoubtedly some persons have been deterred from experimenting with goats because they thought the animals must have grazing ground. Nothing could bo further from the fact. Some people buy a goat with the notion that it is going to keep their lawn grass short, as if it were a sheep. It is not a sheep; neither is it a mowing machine. A goat, is a restless animal, which does not stand about and nibble the grass within its reach, but rather keeps trotting about and getting a bite for itself here, there, and everywhere. ■ A goat will eat grass, but it much prefers mixed herbage. Its idea of.good feeding is what is to be found on a hedge bank or in a ditch, or on any waste place. Healthy goats will turn aside from the best hay that ever was in order to feed on dried weeds'and twigs.