Excerpt from The Case for the Goat: With the Practical Experience of Twenty-Five Experts

When the first edition was prepared), some new illustrations, and various additions and emendations. For one of the illustrations I am indebted to Mr. H. E. Hughes. The other four I am able to include by the courtesy of the Controller of h.m. Stationery Office.

The remarkably cordial reception which The Case for the Goat has received from the Press and from the Public, necessitating a second edition within a few months, is not the only encouraging thing in connexion with this little book.

All the complaints but one, which I felt it to be my duty to make in Chapter VIII. A Word with the Board of in regard to the lack of interest in' goat-keep ing Shown by the Government Department charged with the care of Rural Britain, seem in a fair way to be met.

The Board has exhibited a new attitude of friendliness to the poor man's cow by allowing me to contribute to its monthly journal an article on The Advantages of Goat-keeping.

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