method of feeding cannot be carried out as a general practice, but the clean 

 milk from sterilized bottles will produce good, strong babies. In comparing 

 goats' milk and cows' milk, Dr. Voelcker, analyst to the Royal Agricultural 

 Society, says: "The cream globules in goats' milk are smaller than cows' 

 milk, and as the milk is more concentrated than cows' milk, the cream glob- 

 ules are contained in a more perfect state of emulsion than in cows' milk, 

 in consequence of which hardly any cream rises to the surface on allowing 

 goats' milk to stand for twelve hours or longer." 



It is this quality of goats' milk that explains the fact that it is more 

 easily digested by young children than cows' milk. According to the re- 

 port on this subject at the International Congress of Medicine in Paris some 

 years ago, the following statement was made: 



"A GOOD SPANISH MILCH GOAT," by Fairchild, 

 Bulletin No. 68, B. A. I., U. S. Dept. of Agri. 



(1) The curd of cows' milk forms a dense adhering mass, which by 

 agitation separates into clots that are but slightly soluble. The curd of 

 goats' milk, on the other hand, forms very small, light flakes, which are 

 soft, friable and soluble like those of human milk. 



(2) The curd in both human milk and goats' milk, after agitation, is 

 precipitated very slowly and incompletely, while the curd of cows' milk is 

 precipitated very rapidly and completely. 



(3) Digestive ferments when goats' and human milk were experi- 

 mented with, digested these completely in twenty hours, while cows' milk 

 showed only slight advance after sixty hours. The goats' milk approxi- 

 mates more in composition and digestibility to human milk than any other 

 animal. 



Another very strong argument in favor of goats' milk is the fact that 

 goats are free from tuberculosis. The fact that goats' milk contains more 

 proteid than cows' milk makes the food value, without question, greater 

 than cows' milk. It is a fact that bottle-fed babies as a rule are under- 



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