Now Getting His Due

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 21 May 1915, Page 3

Now Getting His Due

Out of the ages steeped with superstition came the legend that the goat was created by a fiend, and its peculiar pranks and fondness for strange tricks have supported the cry. Medical men have, however, always upheld the hardy little animal. It is an indisputable fact that goats’ milk is richer, more nutritious, and more easily digested than cows’ milk, and as a food for children and invalids it cannot be surpassed. All eminent physician has proclaimed his championship of the maligned goat, which he declares more satisfactory and profitable as a milk producer than a cow. But the great point in its favor is that it is free from the taint that oven the purest of our cows barely escape tuberculosis. To use tho pysician’s own words, the the goat is “tho only dairy animal immune against tuberculosis.”