A Simple Way to Increase Crop Yields: Methods Followed by Farmers of the Coastal Plain Section of the Central Atlantic States in Building Up Soil Ferfility

Altus Lacy Quaintance · Charles William Pugsley · Claude Clifford Hawbaker · Curtis Hernon Kyle · Edmund Cecil Shorey · Edward Lee Shaw · Ernest Adna Back · Frank Getz Ashbrook · Frank Hurlbut Chittenden · George McMillan Darrow · H. P. Gould · Harry Alanson Miller · Howard Ross Tolley · Jacob Hiram Arnold · James Herbert Beattie · Lee W. Fluharty · Leonard Lee Harter · Marion Imes · Russell Sage Woglum · Waldo Lee McAtee

Jan 1919 · U.S. Department of Agriculture

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"The production of milk goats has for a great many years been an important feature of the live-stock industry in many European countries, but it has never secured a very strong foothold in the United States. In this country the goat has always been an animal of more or less ridicule, as the majority of the people do not realize the possibilities of certain breeds or types that have been bread for many years along definite lines. In continental Europe milk goats are largely used by families unable to keep a cow, and great benefit is derived from having fresh milk at had at a low cost. In those count ires the goat is often spoken of as the "poor man's cow." During the past several years considerable interest has been manifested in the milk-goat industry in this country. The fact that the goat will supply sufficient milk for the average family can be kept where it would be impossible to keep a cow is beginning to appeal to many people, especially those living in the small towns and suburbs of the large cities. The milk-goat industry is only in it infancy in America. This type of goat is adapted t our country, and the industry should become of greater importance every year."--Page 2.