LESSON FOR THE FARM HOME 



Published Semi-monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at 

 Cornell University, Throughout the Year. Application for Entry as 

 Second-Class Matter at the Post-Office at Ithaca, N. Y., Pending 



L. H. Bailey, Director 



r^^..^^^ -^r.^ ^TTT. T7.T,w Tj^wT. S Martha Van Rensselaer, Supervisor 



Course for the J^arm Home ■{ ivt„„ t^. o xt.„^ ^r^^^., a ■ , ^ o ^ 



{ Mrs. Ida S. Harrington, Assistant Supervisor 



ITHACA N Y 

 VOL. I. No. 3 NOVEMBER I, 191I ^OOD SERIES No. 2 



THE CARE AND FEEDING OF CHILDREN.— PART II 



Flora Rose 



Alas for the baby deprived of its natural food supply! With all our 

 accumulated knowledge of foods and our improved methods for making 

 the artificial approach the real, we have not been able to find or manu- 

 facture a food that can supply the baby's needs in the same perfect way 

 that they are supplied by the mother's milk. Experience has shown that 

 even with skilful supervision the artificial feeding of a baby may be at- 

 tended by results as serious to its health as a severe illness. If this is 

 true, what disaster may follow when there is no knowledge of child feeding 

 and the baby becomes the victim of untutored experimenting? This peril 

 is impressed upon us when we read such statements as the following: 

 (i) " The death rate among artificially fed babies is seven to ten times as 

 great as among those fed from the breast"; (2) " breast-fed babies have a 

 greater possibility of developing into healthy childhood than artificially- 

 fed ones" ; (3) " one third of the babies die before the end of the third year, 

 and 85 per cent of these are bottle-fed." 



In the face of this evidence it is our duty to become familiar with the 

 conditions that will give the best possible chance to the unfortunate 

 " bottle-fed " baby and to protect it with all the knowledge that science 

 has brought to bear on the subject. This knowledge is now within the 

 reach of all, as each year sees an increasing number of good books, simply 

 written, on the care of the child. 



ARTIFICIAL FEEDING 



When the baby's natural food is denied it, the question of finding a 



substitute that will give good results becomes urgent. Too often the only 



guide to a choice is the advertisement that goes with a patent food. 



The worried mother tries first one brand, then another, in a frantic attempt 



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