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Composition of Goat Milk of Known Purity

Massachusetts Department of Public Health

ABSTRACT

There are more than three hundred registered goat breeders in Massachusetts. Information was received that the Goat Breeders' Association intended to introduce legislation pertaining to the sale of goat milk. It was deemed advisable to obtain samples of goat milk for analysis, the results of which would be of value to the legislative committee considering the proposed bill, which recommended standards for total solids and fat lower than those usually reported.

The reports of the Division of Livestock Disease Control of the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture made by the animal inspectors of the cities and towns in the state show the following number of goats in the respective years: 1934, 1,200; 1936, 1,598; 1937, 2,181; 1938, 2,527.

At this rate of increase there should have been 3,088 goats in Massachusetts at the close of 1939. It is probable that not all of the goats are necessarily reported by the local animal inspectors.