Goats and Their Profitable Management

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Origin and early history of the goat. 3. Varieties of goats. 4. British Milch goats. 5. Continental Milch goats. 6. Oriental and African goats. 7. The Angora or "Mohair" goat. 8. The Cashmere or "Shawl" goat. 9. Cross-bred goats. 10. Selecting a Milch goat. 11. The goat-house. 12. Pasturing. 13. Stall-feeding. 14. Breeding. 15. Rearing kids. 16. Milking. 17. Goats' milk : its virtues and utilities. 18. Goats' butter and cheese. 19. The flesh of the goat. 20. Other products. 21. The goat as a foster-mother. 22. He-goats and goat-carriages. 23. Goat-farming. 24. Shows and showing. 25. The British goat society. 26. Goats and the Malta fever. 27. Diseases, parasites, etc. 28. Disbudding--preventing growth of horns.