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"Rent-A-Goat" Service
“We’re not looking for any publicity,” said a farmer’s wife FARM SHOW contacted for details on the family’s unusual goat rental service. “We’ve got a good thing going and don’t want to encourage competition.”
The service, operated as a sideline to a farming operation located within 50 miles of a large metropoli
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Rent-A-Goat Service “We’re not looking for any publicity ” said a farmer’s wife FARM SHOW contacted for details on the family’s unusual goat rental service “We’ve got a good thing going and don’t want to encourage competition ” The service operated as a sideline to a farming operation located within 50 miles of a large metropolitan area rents about 50 goats every summer to neighboring farm and city families who pay $20 to $30 a summer for an “all-purpose” goat that serves as lawn mower weed cutter brush clearer and as a pet besides An advertisement the family ran in a local newspaper last summer read: “If you’re tired of Lawn Boy try Lawn Kid Guaranteed to start every time ” In some metropolitan areas residents wanting to rent a goat have run into problems with ordinances which except for dogs forbid keeping almost anything larger than a rabbit fenced in or tethered on the front lawn Nonetheless this farm family concedes that their goat-rental business is booming
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