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normal by adding sugar or sugar and cream. Which method is best, it is 

 impossible to say, and there is not space here to include a description of 

 all of them or to enter on a discussion of their respective merits. Every 

 family in which there is a baby should own one or more good books that 

 treat on the care and feeding of children. If the child must be bottle-fed, 

 the choice of method may then be made intelligently. 



]\Iost methods of modifying milk are rather complicated and difficult to 

 manage. The following is recommended for its simplicity and is given 

 here by the courtesy of the Babies' Dispensary and Hospital of Cleveland, 

 Ohio: 



BOTTLE FEEDING 



1. " The only good substitute for mother's milk is milk from healthy, 

 consumption- free, clean-kept cows, milked in a clean stable by clean milk- 

 men into sterilized cans, quickly cooled over sterile refrigerators and 

 poured into sterile bottles, which are closed with sterile stoppers, and kept 

 cool till used for the baby. Such milk need not be sterilized or boiled. 

 Common store or milkman's milk is no food for the baby, even though it 

 may taste and look good. The patent baby foods, condensed milk and 

 the like, also harm the infants in most cases, and should therefore not be 

 used. Your doctor can tell you how to get the right kind of milk for your 

 baby. 



2. "If you cannot get the best milk, see that you get as good milk as you 

 can from a milkman whom you know to be clean; use a clean dish) unless it 

 is certified milk or clean and pure beyond doubt boil the milk from three 

 to five minutes; during the hot summer boil for ten.mdnutes; cool as quickly 

 as possible by placing the dish in another filled with the coldest water you 

 can get ; renew this water frequently and keep the dish covered in the coolest 

 room of the house. 



3. " Clean the bottle immediately after feeding by first rinsing it with 

 clear water, then soak it in soda, borax, or soap water; clean well with clean 

 brush and rinse with boiled water ; then set it upside doivn in a clean place, 

 or stand it upright filled with boiled water. (The bottles are to be boiled 

 as directed below, before being used. — Author.) 



4. "As soon as you have sufficiently cooled the milk, prepare your food 

 as directed by the doctor, always using the cleanest dishes; then pour it 

 with a clean pitcher, not through a dirty funnel, into as many bottles as 

 the baby is to have meals, and stopper with clean cotton batting, which 

 you may have baked in the oven. Before using the bottles, however, 

 which you have already cleaned as directed under item No. 3, boil them 

 for twenty minutes and then set them upside down in a clean place or dish 

 to dry and cool. 



