1954 THUNDER HILL GOAT FARM magazine article New York state 4 woman goat raising

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Selling is a 1954 magazine article about:
Goat raising
Title: The Goats of Thunder Hill
Author: Elizabeth Nicholds
Subtitled “Forsaking City Streets for a Rural New York Retreat, Four Women Brave the Complications of a Cowless Dairy Farm”
Quoting the first page “Nine years ago, brimming with ignorance and enthusiasm, we bought a 200-acre farm in Otsego County, New York, named it Thunder Hill, and started raising goats. Our neighbors, of course, regarded us with scorn, mirth, or pity, according to their several temperaments and the depth of their compassion for misguided mortals.
"For land sakes!" they said to one another.
"A goat farm! Anybody with a grain of sense knows it's cows and chickens makes the money around here. And females trying to run a farm, two of 'em old ladies besides! They'll find out farming ain't just pickin' posies."
We did find out. But we stuck to it, and we are still on a farm, though now a smaller, more manageable one.
We wanted goats because we like animals and because goats are small enough for women to handle. Also, I remembered a brief period in my youth when I was happily dominated by two pet goats which I loved in spite of their bossy ways. Even as a child I suspected what experience has since led me to regard as fact: goats are more like people than any other animals.
They are not only bossy but lively, enterprising, affectionate, chatty, and very nosy. They so much regard themselves as folks, in fact, that they sometimes move right in with the family.
Take the time I spent hours polishing up our place preparing for city visitors. I was determined that there should be no snide remarks about goat farms. When I left to meet the bus, I was satisfied that the house was tidy, the plumbing in good order, the barn thoroughly cleaned, and the goats happy in their pasture, where their alert faces peering over the fence would surely charm all who saw them.
But when I returned with the visitors, the goat faces, alas, were not peering from beyond the pasture fence. They were laughing at us out of almost every downstairs window of the house.
Time has corrected some of our original ignorance, but, in spite of the unpredictable antics of our goats, has done little to diminish the enthusiasm. We have come to see, moreover, that goats also can be profitable.
Millions of people in the world today drink goat's milk. Think of sections of the Orient, think of the Mediterranean countries, of Switzerland, parts of France, parts of Central Europe, where the milk goat is the accepted foster mother of the human race.
In the United States, at the last official count, there were 33,000 farms harboring milk goats. On some of them goats are, kept for family milk only. On others, sizable herds constitute the chief business.
Even more farms and ranches keep goats for wool. By the aforementioned count there were 25 times more Angora than milk goats.
Perhaps the most celebrated Angora in America (he's not really pure stock) lives on a dairy farm at Gambrills, Maryland that is, when he isn't being kidnaped or paraded at football games. He's Bill XIV, the mongrel mascot of the United States Naval Academy.
Some dairies near large cities make good incomes by supplying people who need goat's milk because of digestive troubles or allergies. Babies sometimes cannot tolerate cow's milk; for them goat's milk is a necessity. Though goat's milk is almost the same as cow's in taste and composition, it has a softer curd and smaller fat globules which make it easy to digest.
It was nothing so practical as the food value of goat's milk, however, nor even the lure of financial reward, that prompted us to start the Thunder Hill Goat Farm. I wanted to make a home in the country for my mother and aunt, who are twins.
The twins were 76. Bobby, my young…"
7” x 10”, 16 pages, 15 B&W photos
These are pages from an actual 1954 magazine.
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