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The WestEnd.546Ifaj' 3', 1^99.A VISIT TO A GOAT FARM.IT is somewhat difficult to explain why goats are so seldom seen nowadays. Now. however, that her Majesty has had two goats sent her from Omdurman, they may become more popular.- The baroness burdett-CouUs' has for many years taken much interest in the “ poor man’s cow. and at her Highgate farm, she has now a very considerable llock of nannies and billies. More interesting than usual are they just at this time of year, for the little kids are delightful to watch, jumping and skipping about their paddocks in the full enjoyment of youthful spirits.Most countries have their own breed ol goat, but the Swiss and british goats are usually the most esteemed for their milking qualities, the milk being specially beneficial to infants, and in cases where all else has failed, a trial of goats* milk has saved the lives of many young children.an English nanny. “ fierty ” has now two kids, she is a grand type 01the English breed, and has won many prizes including five firsts’ She is a first-class milker and a good mother. “ Beechnut is a smart little nanny and a good milker, yielding three pints daily, besides bringing up her kid. Another charming couple are “Bramble” and her kid: bramble5’ has had a most successful show career, having taken thru-first prizes besides others of lower value : she shows most of the Nubian type of the goat breed, which until recent years was seldom crossed with native breeds.Altogether at Holly Hodge Farm the Baroness has about two dozer, goats of various ages and breeds, all in the fullest enjoyment of health :disease of any kind being practically unknown. They arc a credit u,the herdsman and a source of pleasure to their kind owner.■u Billy Grey Rock/’* Beechnut 55 with her kid f nazlem-itAa..1Geity ” and her two kids.Meadowsweet 'f and her kid.THK I ARONKSs bl’KOKTT Cn\'TYlt; CiOATs.(ioats are most easily kept, so the baroness’s head herdsman savs. due regard being paid to food and cleanliness, and it is not at all necessary for them to have a grass run : indeed some authorities aver that a well-ventilated stall or warm shed is sufficient to keep them in perfect health.Considering the size of these little animals thev yield a considerable quantity of milk, and like cows, the proportion of milk is commensurate with the food stuff supplied them ; a good milker will give three, four, or even five quarts per day, and the milk is valued at two shillings per quart. Goats are pretty nearly omnivorous in their feeding, all kinds of grain, green stuff, weeds, hedge trimmings, roots of all kinds coming within their bill of fare, and variety is the salt of life to them, anil nothing keeps them so well as frequent change of food.The billy, “Grey Rock. took first prize at the* last Dairy Show, and is a handsome specimen, one of the largest goats exhibited in recent years: he is a Nubian English cross, his mother being “ Gertv/5Thk statement that the ( zar had presented the Duchess Jutta lt;Mecklenburg-Strelitz with a trousseau is of course absurd, and relief on the dignity of the bride's family. It is. however, a fact that tD Emperor of Russia, who has always regarded the Prince of Montenegn as his vassal, has given Prince Danilo an appointment carrying with it ■ large income ; this alone made the marriage possible, for the Princes «'• Montenegro are less wealthy than manv an English country gentleman. It is a fact that the Czar provided a million roubles and a handsome trousseau for the Princess of Naples, but the circumstances were ver-peculiar. The young Princess had been educated in St. Petersburg and it was understood that her marriage to the then Czarowitz wa only a question of time. Accordingly when the future Czar becaim attached to Princess Alex of Hesse, the daughter of the ruler ol Monti negro found herself in a very unpleasant position, and it was well known on the Continent that the Russian Court arranged her marriage to thin t lire King of Italy.
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London West End
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, May 31, 1899
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