. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. cause of which lies in thefood and general treatmentto which the animals are sub-jected. The goat is notdainty ; it will eat with satis-faction what other animalsreject, such as bark of trees,bushes, wild fruits, berries,etc.; tobacco it considers adainty. In short, it eats any-thing it can get; and if allsorts of bad food are given toa goat, and if, moreover, it isshut up in a damp and dirtystable, it is no wonder if the milk both tastes andsmells repulsive. But if,on the contrary, the ani-mal has fresh air, goodfood, and cle
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. cause of which lies in thefood and general treatmentto which the animals are sub-jected. The goat is notdainty ; it will eat with satis-faction what other animalsreject, such as bark of trees,bushes, wild fruits, berries,etc.; tobacco it considers adainty. In short, it eats any-thing it can get; and if allsorts of bad food are given toa goat, and if, moreover, it isshut up in a damp and dirtystable, it is no wonder if the milk both tastes andsmells repulsive. But if,on the contrary, the ani-mal has fresh air, goodfood, and cleanliness, itwill give good, sweetmilk. In Eastern coun-tries goats milk is pre-ferred to cows milk, forwhich, indeed, the Arabshave a great aversion. About four years agoM. Joseph Crepin, amember of the NationalAcclimation Society ofFrance, opened at Parisa goats-milk creameiyespecially for childrenand invalids, which hassince passed into thehands of a corporation,M. Crepin having solelyin view the acceptance of his idea in the sani-tary interests of the Sarnen He-Goat THE GOAT 193 III. Descent Buffons supposition that the tame goat ofEurope comes from a mixture of the cameland the wild goat has been contradicted formany good reasons, and especially because ofthe fact that the camel and the wild goat,far from consorting in their wild state, avoideach others society. Buffons idea had longexisted, but it is now generally considered thatthe Bezoar goat of Asia maile its wa}- intoEurope by the south. Several varieties of the wild goat still existin Europe, Asia, and Africa, but in Europethey have almost disappeared. In the four-teenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries theywere found in vast numbers in the Alps,from Mont Blanc to Salzburg in Styria. Theywere usually seen in large troops on the high-est mountains, seeking their food near thesnow limit. The bucks were very tall, withlarge horns curving slightly backward. Thefemales were much smaller in size, with smallhorns
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