AgE—lancaster Farming, Friday, July 3,1981
Delaware goat breeders donate
NEWARK, Del. - John and
Mary Smith may have common
names, but they’ve chosen some
uncommon ones for their kids:
Liebchen, Kirschen-Kuchen,'..
Bootsie, Jedidiah, and quite a few
more.
Several years ago the Smiths of
Townsend, Delaware, had 19 kids
on baby bottles at one time
enough to keep anybody hopping.
The kids were part of Delaware’s
largest registered Nubian dairy
goat herd.
Only Jedidiah, Oscar, and the
remarkable 18-year-old matriarch,
Bootsie, still make their home with
the Smiths. The rest of the herd
had to be dispersed when Mary
Smith suffered a spinal injury.
Now Bootsie’s 48 kids and their
cousins are serving people
elsewhere—most notably in the
Republic of Panama.
At the organizational meeting of
the Delaware Dairy Goat
Association in 1979, the crowd in
the small meeting room of the
Delaware Department of
Agriculture Building exceeded all
expectations.
“Where did all you people get
goats?” asked an overwhelmed
Agriculture Department official.
About one-third of the people
present pointed to the Smiths.
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Needless to say, the Smiths are
very persuasive about goats.
“They need so little, and they give
so much,’ ’ says Mary Smith.
Goats are friendly and af
fectionate, > uisL.i.wt pei
sonalities. They are easy to handle
and inexpensive to teed. They help
keep the lawn trimmed, and they
provide excellent milk and cheese.
It’s easy to make goat cheese at
home. Mrs. Smith simply heats the
milk, adds white vinegar, and
strains it to produce cottage cheese
or ncotta. She serves it plam, and
she uses it in salad dressings,
Italian stuffed shells, cheesecake,
and her festive red and green olive
cheese loaf.
Some of the Smiths’ kids are
providing milk, cheese, and lawn
service to people in Delaware and
surrounding states. Some ended up
on a Greek or Puerto Rican dinner
table at Eastertime. Some are
pets, and others are providing
lifesaving milk to babies with
allergies or adults with peptic
ulcers.
In fact, it was an ulcer that
caused Mrs. Smith to get her first
goat. Since Delaware has no goat
milk market, people with medical
problems requiring goats’ milk
often have to buy their own goats
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