CHAPTER XI. 



IRormal 



While .'io single part or ingredient of human food 

 is of greater or equal importance and merits in its 

 production in a higher degree strict supervision, yet 

 none is consumed with a greater indifference as to its 

 origin and pureness than cow's milk. 



Considering the great advancements in the techni- 

 cal and scientific parts of dairying during the last 

 decade, it is strange that the production of healthful 

 infants' milk should have been so signally neglected. 

 There exists no doubt to-day but what cow's milk is 

 the best natural substitute for mother's milk and the 

 best food for a child after weaning. Even if it were 

 true that asses' milk would be preferable, there is too 

 little of it ; or, if goat's milk were preferable on ac- 

 count of this animal's freedom from tuberculosis, yet 

 the disagreeable taint peculiar to this milk, arising 

 from the capronine it contains, makes it undesirable 

 to most people, so that if there are other mammals 

 whose milk, in its composition, comes closer to 

 mother's milk, yet they are not of a kind either to 

 furnish a sufficiency for our needs or they are not so 

 domesticated as to allow us to draw it. 



The conditions for the production of a healthy 

 milk start with the selection of the cow, the feed she 



