RETURN OF THE GOAT
Sir,-"Sundowner’s" expressed wish that he might have been prevented from "making a fool of himself a second time" is rather contradicted by his ignorance revealed in his column in your issue of June 22. "Goats in a country’ created for cows." Can England not be considered a "country?s crea cows" just as much a oer t Then why do so many English dairy farmers run dairy goats with their cows? What has the cow done in this country | in clearing the vast areas we have surrendered to blackberry, manuka, gorse and broom? All these are excellent foods
providing a_ scientifically recognised source of vitamins for "Nature’s most nearly perfect food"-dairy goat milk. If "Sundowner" lives long enough (to which end a quart of goat milk daily would help). he-may yet see this source of food utilised and dairy goat milk condensed and dehydrated in this country as it is today in USA. and Great Britain. Incidentally, Ainattalia "a well over 400 registered breeders of purebred dairy goats, many located in dairying districts. ‘ Good dairy goats have to be imported, then bred and cared for. These "aristocratic" goats. are producers, not of half-pints but of three or five quarts or even more daily, not for a few weeks but for ten ‘months or two or three years if: you wish. The British official record _made last year by a.Saanen goat was 6284 pounds 14 ounces milk in 365 days, i.e., practically 629 gallons of milk in’a year. In Australia the record is 4192.5 pounds milk in 365 days, and for 273 days 3375 pounds milk. The goat making this record is now in New Zealand. ‘In New Zealand our dairy goats are coming along nicely and more of them may be heard in the near future, thanks to the ‘"faddists" who have had -enterprise and courage enough to risk the importation of high quality stock and to attempt to pioneer an industry which might yet mean as much to this country as it does to other coungier "created for the cow.’ ¢
V. C. WALLACE
WRIGHT
Convener, New Zealand Dairy Goat Keepers’ Association (Invercargill). (Abridged.-Ed. )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 5
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357RETURN OF THE GOAT New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 5
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