A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



it possesses certain qualities necessary to 

 arouse digestive and other functions of the 

 body. 



Teaching a new-born calf to drink is a 

 much easier matter than trying to persuade 

 it, when four weeks old, that a pail is a sub- 

 stitute for its mother. Moreover, at that 

 age, it possesses strength enough to make 

 its teeth and impatient butts anything but 

 pleasant. The new-born baby will, within 

 a few hours, be assailed by hunger; and not 

 having acquired a knowledge of nursing, 

 or even a consciousness of mother, it can 

 draw no uncomplimentary comparisons be- 

 tween maternal and pail methods or quality 

 of the proffered sustenance, which consists 

 for three days of milk as taken from the 

 cow. Second three days, half-skim, half- 

 fresh milk. 



Feed five times: Breakfast, six o'clock; 

 lunch, nine-thirty; dinner, twelve; tea, 

 three; supper, six-thirty. Quantity, about 

 three pints to a meal. Second week, all 



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