unclean stables or bad feed. Even cow's milk very frequently smells badly 

 under these conditions/' Milch-Zeitung. 



"It (the milk) possesses a singular but not unpleasant sharp taste, the 

 strength of which varies with the feeding and keeping. The better the 

 feed, the cleaner the bedding, the better ventilated the stall, and the more 

 painstaking the care, just so much more pleasing will be the taste of the 

 milk. The goatish taste is always to be attributed to the lack of attention 

 to one or more of these points." Dettweiler. 



"Innoxious, uninfectious, sanitary nourishment for the infant, the 

 child, the invalid and the aged, has been until recently a reflective problem 

 for the medical man as well as the layman. All the different stages of 

 our existence depend not only upon nourishment, harmless in character, but 

 its perfect assimilation for best results. The ideal food for our purpose is 

 human milk, from healthy, unimpregnated mothers. Its only substitute of 

 equal value is now offered and can be supplied from matured, healthy, un- 

 impregnated milch goats. It is the only and reliable wholesome milk in 

 reach. The statistics of the world are against the use of cow's milk today 

 for food in the above mentioned classes. 



"The fourth annual report of the District of Columbia Association for 

 the Prevention of Tuberculosis, and this is from the most reliable and 

 highest source of information in the United States, tells us that one-fourth 

 of all cases of tuberculosis among children under 16 years of age, and one- 

 eighth of all fatal cases under 5 years of age are due to bovine tuberculosis. 

 And among children fed exclusively on cows' milk, nine out of ten cases 

 of fatal tuberculosis revealed that five, or 55 per cent, were due to bovine 

 infection. The most noted authorities of Europe and America agree that 

 the qualities of goats' milk lie in its chemical composition, its immunity 

 from the danger of carrying the germs of tuberculosis make it the "ne plus 

 ultra" of all foods. As a prophecy, remember that the goat will be the 

 foster-mother and wet-nurse of generations yet unborn." Louis G. Knox, 

 M. D., D. V. S. 



A prominent Buffalo physician says: "I take great pleasure in com- 

 mending goats' milk for the infant, where other foods fail. I have resorted 

 to goats' milk feeding in quite a few cases, and only recently have fed two 

 premature (7 months' gestation) infants on this food with most flattering 

 results." 



A happy mother, Mrs. George Hoffman, wrote: "We cannot speak too 

 highly of the use of goats' milk for premature infants. Our boy at one 

 month old weighed 3% pounds, and at three months (after using the goats' 

 milk obtained from the McKeand farm) weighed eight pounds." 



To make a fair test of goats' milk, one must be sure that the milk 

 has been prepared by the latest methods that are used in certified dairies. 

 Under these conditions the milk is pleasant to the taste and has a digesti- 

 bility second only to mothers' milk. Mr. J. L. Strutton, in the British 

 Medical Journal, writes that in Alexandria the matron of the hospital says 

 that babies in that city are fed direct from the goats, that is, by having 

 the mouths applied to the washed teats. The article goes on to say that 

 the babies are rosy and plump, rarely cry, just eat and sleep. This direct 



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