MILK FOR INFANTS 



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Efed of Composition of Food Upon the Character of Body Gain. 



for weakness in the after-life of a great many American infants. 



Stockmen have known for a great many years that the 



milk of a Holstein cow, testing little better than 3 per cent 



fat, will produce a stronger, healthier calf than will the milk 



C0AfP03/r/0A/ OF THE SOL/OS orM/L/< ori/ART/NG FA T GRADE 



onr matte: R bas/s 



fAT/O f-AT TO /^ON-FATTY 30LtOS. 



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Fig. 129.— Emphasizing the change of the proportion of fat to non-fatty solids in the 

 solid matter of milk of varying fat grades; also that 2 43 pounds of low-priced solids 

 accompanied each one pound of fat in the 3.0 per cent milk, whereas, only 1 29 pounds of 

 cheap solids were required to be produced to accompany each pound of fat with a 7 per cent 

 milk. 



