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Show GOAT'S MILK. The Old World is becoming alarmed over the death df so many babies. A. great many ascribe the mortality to the use pf cow 'g milk. ' Dr. William Wright makes the plea for goat's milk, through the London Lancet. He declares it. is greatly superior 'to cow's milk in the three essential points, cleanliness, digestibility and freedom from disease germs. , Of the 130,000 goats and kids brought to Paris for slaughter every year, the meat inspectors have failed to discover a single case of tuberculosis. . Size for size the goat gives twice as much milk as a cow, and if the animals are. well fed the milk is identical in flavor to that of cow's milk. , In all hot countries from a habit, which probably grew out of long experience, the people rely greatly, if not entirely,, on goat's milk, and we have often wondered why poor people do not have more goats. Of the right breed, two ot them ae as good as a cow, and they can live on much less, they are decidedly more sociable around the house, and their milk is a great deal better for the children than cow's milk. ' |