Rearing Kids -17 S 



speak in its favour, however. First, I have always found 

 much trouble in making the animals learn to drink at 

 this early stage of their existence, and when learnt it is, 

 after all, injurious for them to take their food in this way. 

 It has this serious objection, that the milk, being gulped 

 down in large draughts, is introduced into the stomach 

 without a due admixture of saliva, which performs so 



Fig. 29. Feeder for Rearing Kids by Hand* 



important a part in its digestion, and causes masses of 

 coagulated curd to accumulate in the stomach, producing 

 diarrhoea, which not uncommonly ends fatally. In 

 sucking, the saliva mixes with the milk in the mouth, and 

 the whole goes down in a more gradual and regular 

 manner ; but, should the orifice of an artificial teat become 

 much worn and enlarged, or the end perforated by the 

 teeth of the kid, the same result will be inevitable. An 

 arrangement of Mr. Hook's for feeding several kids, 



