Show A i about keeping goats many persons who cannot conveniently keep a cw cow would find it profitable to keep one or two common goats they require but little care may be su ported at small cost and yield a good supply of milk of superior quai ty A goat well kept will yield from three pints to two quarts of milk daily for a large part of the year the quantity diminishing in the cold weather as the time of kidding approaches it is much cheaper to keep a goat in town than to pay a milkman and fact lab iab everywhere will find the milk very nutritive and wholesome and especially good for children in most cases ah english writer estimates that two goats are equal to a small shetland cow goats may be very cheaply supported it if picket ted in a pasture in warm weather or allowed to be at large they will pick up their own living eating read ly almost every sort of green thing Gras grass weeds twigs of bushes vegetables fruits nearly everything evert ever eyer thing hing that grov groy grows 3 will suit their taste they are fond of dry leaves cornstalks corn stalks horse chestnuts and even eat poisonous plants with impunity it if confined in a yard or in closer q jar arters they will take the scraps and waste of the kitchen some persons persona allow them to feed out of the swill pall pail but this practice cannot be com corm mended minded cobbett says in his cottage economy 11 when I 1 was in the army in new blung wick where be it observed the snow lies anthe anth e ground seven months in the year years there were many goats that belonged to the regiment arld abd that went about with it on shipboard and every everywhere where else some of them had bad gone the whole of the american war we never fed them in summer they picked about wherever they could find grass and in winter they lived on cabbage leave potato peelings and oiher other things flung out of the a idlers rooms and huts huta one of these goats belonged to me and on an average throng throughout hout the y year ear she gave me more than three halt half p ants of mi k a day I 1 used to have the kid killed kille d when a few days od and for some time the goat would give nearly or quite two quarts of milk a day she was seldom dry more than three weeks in the year the same bame writer adds add that goats will pick peelings pe elings out of the kennel and eat them they will eat mouldy bouldy bread or bu uit fusty hay and rotten straw furze bushes heath beath whistles thistles and indeed what hat bat wil wll they not eat when they will make a hearty mealon pape or white whites printed on or not printed on and give milk all the while ima rma I 1 may cadd add to bobbetta Cob betta list of odd delicacies by stating that my own goats have gnawed smooth the rough sides of my rny pile of b h bark and have cleaned out all the powder post from the sills of the wood but goats like most other aneals an mais mals pr erter erfer fer ter clean food and will not devour all the above mentioned things if a sup bup y of more mort desirable edibles are at hand band in an fn the winter it is well to lay in a few hundred pounds of bay second crop is preferable a few carrots and some fine feed indian meal is sometimes given to them but it is too d drying 9 the they need water occasionally but till do not drills drink much the goat is the most hardy olour of our domestic animals enduring easily all extremes of heat and cold it needs the shelter of a shed in wintry lie anywhere on the floor preferring a board to a bed its natural actie ty and with a capricious disposition fit this creature to enjoy a state of freedom when roaming wild on its native mountains it loves to climb the tha most dangerous and inaccessible places clinging on the verger vergee of preci precipices ices leeb by its KB wide spreading and ehrp edget edged lf hoofs and defying the pursuit of cf the hunter bunter this inclination c cli cil na nation tion it manifests in domestic li life ilfe feby by scaling coaling sheda sheds walls walla weed piles e c with great reat agility but the goat will bear con cement extreme y well continuing in good health and yielding the usual quantity of milk on shipload ship boad it is healthier than any other domestic animal and is h b ably valued on account acco rint lint of its sportiveness sportive nebs its familiarity and its ability to give milk upon such waste food as is there obtainable the milk of the female goat is sweet rich and nourishing it has bas the body and smooth ness of cream is viscid and a strengthening I 1 little product ve of oil bit abundant in the I 1 matter of cheese in tea and coffee it is far i superior to cows cowa milk and will go at least as far again in imparting color and flavor I 1 in all kinds of cooking it is equally excellent I 1 it has no peculiar or unpleasant taste and is not affected by what the ibe creature eats onion tops have been given to the fern lep lex ie by way of experiment without imparting an on lony taste to the milk I 1 cor cot consider sider two pints or of goats boata milk to be as go d in a family in every vay ay as three pints of cows milk ibor ihor most feeble and sickly children as well I 1 i as those in health it is invaluable it does not tend to form curds in the storn atom ch cb as cows milk does and is therefore frequently prescribed by physicians in cases of extreme ex i weakness it is sold for the purpose in salem at twenty fire tire cents a quart invalids abroad often resort to the mountainous districts of ireland and scotland to derive benefit from the uie ule use of article which is there known as goats whey mr colman noticed that the irish mountaineers about the lake of killarney kept from one to thirty goats apiece for the sake of the tourists to that delightful r region in spain and portugal goats are J abundant ant and in lisbon their idiak is more I 1 commonly used than hit thit of cows the ulie 1 goats in those countries are driven into the cities cilles in the morning and anil milked at the doors i of the houses the dibar tt ct in france most moat celebrated for forg goats oats oata is the canton mont blont dor I 1 where in a space not exceeding two leagues 1 six miles in da diameter dameier meter upwards of eleven thousand are kept chiefly to supply the city of lyom lyons with cheese there are ars several other interesting particulars relating to the goat which I 1 will give in another pap paper er G L STREETER |