Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1911 — SELLS GOATS MILA [ARTICLE]

SELLS GOATS MILA

Big Demand for Product From Babies and Adults. ' i„V „ ’ * Maw York Y7oman Surprises Friends by Successful Operation of Dairy Near Buffalo—Animals Put on Bpecial FeedingNew York.—A New York woman has surprised her friends by making a stlccess of a goat dairy on her farm near Buffalo. "No one was more surprised than my friends when i went iljto this business," she said. “1 hardly know myself how I started. It's one of those thingß which come to you at times when you feel that you must do someing for a livelihood, yet do not know what to do—the result of an inspiration, perhaps. "But you are, after leaving the city abd moving out on this farm for the children's sake, I realized that there was plenty of room to carry on a profitable business if I only knew what to do. "The chief reason I took hold of goat raising, I think, is because I heard our family doctor say that the best thing for young children suffering from summer complaint and malnutrition was pure goat’s milk. He also said that It was the best nourishment for weak stomachs. Furthermore, he declared it was almost impossible to secure goat’s milk In the cities. “This set me to thinking. Here 1 was, an able-bodied woman, and herd was plenty of room for all the goats I could get hold of. So It was ‘goats or give up.’ 1 decided, and I have certainly made a success at it. "In the first place, the worst thing I had to contend with was that I had no ready money. I went skirmishing around and was finally able to borrow SSOO, which amount I considered sufficient as my first outlay. So 1 bought SSOO worth of goats. “These were not of any fancy breed, but just ordinary goats, young and in healthy condition. The goats I simply turned out on my pastures, and the beauty of It Is that the goat can live on very sparse vegetation if necessary. He will not eat the proverbial tla can, but he will get nutriment out of what ordinary animals would starve upon. Accordingly, he is not expensive to keep. “But to get the proper strength of milk in its healthy, pure condition, I put my goats on a special feeding. It was my purpose to sell my milk to druggists and physicians. To succeed I wanted the best product I could get to put on the market. "The eagerness with which my proposition was received by the medical fraternity In Buffalo encouraged me to go in for goat’s milk for all it was worth. I assured these people they could depend on me for a certain sup-

ply, and they guaranteed to take alj I could furnish. “This constituted a daily routine of work. I got two helpers, but did much of the work myself. Everything I have about my goat stables is as sanitary as it is possible to make it. The milking is done under the same sanitary rules. My bottling is all sterilized and I deliver my milk in pint and quart bottles, fresh and sealed. No sooner is it received each day at the drug stores and dispensaries than 1t is carried away. I furnish the fresh product to the trade for several cents more than is paid for ordinary cow’s milk. “My milk is bottled and put on the trains every morning in the same manner as the usual dairy business, and the bottles iome back to me

empty for a tresh supply. In a very short time I was able to pay my borrowed SSOO back. Very shortly I shall double my supply of goats and very likely will soon ship my milk into New York city. “The goats themselves are easy to take care of and require about the same average space a goat aB the common sheep, but I should much rather put all the money I had into goats than the latter. Goats are very hardy. "For a farmer’s wife, or any woman who wants to take up an out-of-door existence, I can say that nothing Is better than systematically running a goat dairy. On the size herd I have a woman should be able to clear $1,500 a year and do it nicely and without trouble when she is once experienced in the daily routine.”