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highly organized, irritable nervous temperament, doubtful vital re- 

 source or resistance, is entirely unsuitable to rear a child. The same is 

 true of the cow, and her individual adaptability must now be sub- 

 jected to the same scrutiny. Many an infant has had its life imperiled 

 or has been lost owing to its receiving its nourishment from a nurse 

 who has suffered from disappointment, anger, hysteria, indigestion, lack 

 of exercise or the like. 



Much of our artificially fed infant mortality is due, directly or 

 indirectly, to the presence in cows' milk of similar poisons generated 

 in nature's wonderful laboratory and as defiant of test-tube analysis 

 as are those other qualities in the milk of strong, hardy cows which, 

 for want of better names, we designate as vital energy or vital force. 



Speaking of vitalizing power in the milk of certain cows as com- 

 pared with others, Professor Carlisle, of the Wisconsin Experiment 

 Station, says: 



The point I wish to make here is that there is such a thing as vitality in 

 milk, and that it is of equal if not greater importance than is chemical com- 

 position especially for the milk supply of cities. And there can be no question 

 but that the vitality of the milk is closely associated with the vitality of the 

 animal producing it. 



The effect, then, of laws requiring a high percentage of fat will be to 

 put a ban upon the most sturdy, healthy, normal, productive and 

 useful breed of cows the world has ever known, for they are to be 

 found in every country of the globe and probably produce more milk 

 and by-products than all other breeds combined. It will encourage 

 the sale of the milk product of a breed which is neither hardy nor 

 vigorous; which is pr*obably more susceptible to tuberculosis and other 

 diseases, owing partly to the fact that their delicate constitution requires 

 housing more months of the year than any other breed ; a breed giving 

 a milk not only entirely unsuited to the purposes of artificial feeding 

 of infants, but possessing excessive fat and other deleterious proper- 

 ties to such a degree that many of the cows of this breed are unable to 

 rear their own calves; a breed originating in a salubrious climate, 

 reared with the tenderest care, and brought to this inclement land to 

 be exposed to conditions unnatural to them or their ancestors and 

 therefore resulting in a milk product which, according to modern 

 standards, is undesirable in many ways. 



Many state institutions throughout our commonwealths maintain 

 herds of Holsteins, some of which are among the finest in the land, 

 in the confident belief that it would be impossible to supply such an 

 abundant quantity of highly nourishing milk through the medium of 

 any other breed. 



Thomas Morgan Fiotch, M.D., the distinguished authority on the 

 diseases of children, speaks as follows regarding the value of the milk 

 of this particular breed : 



