KEEPING OF GOATS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1919, Page 7

KEEPING OF GOATS.

A NEGLECTED INDUSTRY. Goat-keeping for milking purposes deserves far more attention in New Zealand than it is at present receiving, states the Journal of Agriculture. We have only to look round and see the large number of unoccupied or partlyunoccupied sections, and patches of rough, hilly ground growing nothing but scrub and weeds adjacent to many workers' homes, to recognise that there is a splendid opening for people with limited capital to bring these into profitable use with'mueh benefit to themselves and good results to the land. Thousands of acres at present lying idle in small patches all over the country could be leased at a mere nominal rent, or even secured rent free in return for keeping down the weeds. Again, many home sections in our outer suburban districts are large enough to run u millcing-goat; tethering can be largely practised in such situations. 'Goats as a means for supplying the home with a pure, wholesome milk up \ to three or four quarts a day, according to the breed, have, indeed, been woefully neglected in New Zealand, especially when we sea what beneficial advances have been made in that respect all over the world. This apathy is probably largely due to the fact that animals of good milking strains have not been much imported.