. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. all — overthree feet. The race has delicate heads, slen-der necks, long bodies, straight backs, slimlegs, and large, tender,hairless udders in theewes. With good foodthe production of milkis about si.\ quarts a day,though some give seven,eight, or even twelvequarts. The annual pro-duction is from twelveto eighteen hundredquarts, though the goatBetty, belonging to theBreeding Society ofPfungstadt, gave threethousand quarts in oneyear. For this qualit) theSarnen goat has beenimported in great num-bers since 1887 intoFrance, Germ
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. all — overthree feet. The race has delicate heads, slen-der necks, long bodies, straight backs, slimlegs, and large, tender,hairless udders in theewes. With good foodthe production of milkis about si.\ quarts a day,though some give seven,eight, or even twelvequarts. The annual pro-duction is from twelveto eighteen hundredquarts, though the goatBetty, belonging to theBreeding Society ofPfungstadt, gave threethousand quarts in oneyear. For this qualit) theSarnen goat has beenimported in great num-bers since 1887 intoFrance, Germany, Bel- 1 gium, Holland, England, and even South Africa, and not a few havebeen brought to the United States. The Swartzcnboiirg-Guggisbcrg goat comesalso from the valley of the Sarnen, especiallyfrom the neighborhood of Stockhorn, Erlen-bach, and Schwenten. It is of various colors. horns, while others are without them; the pro-duction of milk is about three quarts a day. The Appcnzel ox flat-hcadcdgoat comcf, fromthe canton of that name: it is without hcjrns. Swiss CALLED DE SaRSEK much spotted and variegated, sometimes witha black back and a white stomach, or withwhite stripes and other variations. Some ha\e . CoAis wniinrT Horns and is gencrall} while, though sometimes it is dark or spotted. The production of milk is about five quarts daily. The Toggcnbourg goat is, from the canton of St. Gall. It is brown, with long white stripes on the head; the legs are white, and it has nohorns. It is a very handsome, well-made goat, which j^roduces quartsof milk daily. The Freiburg or Grcycrs goat andthe black-iicckcd goat of the J alaisare foimd in the cantons of thosenames and in the Tyrol; the latterbreed, which is strong and well made,has the front half of the body black,and the rear half white. Both speciesare good milkers. According to Pro-fessor Anderegg, of Berne, twenty-six different species of goats are found in Switzerland. In the Savoy Alps there are ver
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