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“ Geity ” and her two kids.Thk Bakonkss Hnlt;( Mats are most easily kept, so the* baroness's head herdsman says, due regard being paid 10 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 ol these little animals thev yield a considerable**■ w •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. Coats 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, “ drey 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 ‘Mlertv,”u Meadowsweet and her kid.ktt ( oi rr Goats.Thk statement that the ('zar had presented the Duchess Jutta « Mecklenburg-Strelitz with a froi/ssca// is of course absurd, and rebec-on the dignity of the bride’s family. It is. however, a fact that tb Emperor of Russia, who has always regarded the Prince ol Montenegu as his vassal, has given Prince Danilo an appointment carrying with it ■ large income : this alone made the marriage possible, for the Princes h Montenegro are less wealthy than many an English country gentleman It is a lact 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 \va only a question ol time. Accordingly when the future Czar becam« attached to Princess Alex of Hesse, the daughter of the ruler of Monte negro found herself in a very unpleasant position, and it was well know: on the Continent that the Russian Court arranged her marriage to tic future King of Italy.
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London West End
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, May 31, 1899
Page 22
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