WRY NOT GOATS ?
I was asked the other day, what struck inc most during a recent tour of Southern Spain. The only truthful answer was, " Goats." They left a yet more various and lasting impression than even the Alcazar ! Now we can scarcely compare Spain with Great Britain in economic or farming matters ; but the livelihood happily filched off almost barren ground by Spanish country folk makes a visitor realize how much is altogether disregarded in England that would be regarded as a fertile source of wealth by inhabitants of the poorer districts of Spain. How blessed the peasant would think himself if he could feed his goats by the spacious roadside, without any need to cut and carry the boughs and pruning of trees to complete their ration. There is Much to be said for the goat. I know one remote Oxfordshire hamlet where the cottagers live ordinarily on tinned milk ' from abroad, though the environment of every cottage is rich enough in free food to supply the needs of a herd of " the' poor man's' cow." A little' rural publicity for the British Goat Society would perhaps do no little service to the English peasant, who often finds fresh milk strangely difficult to procure.
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