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kids eaeli luive their nievitN and their (h'awbacks. Both 

 haA'e been u.sed .siieeesst'ully, and it is no liarder to teach 

 the new born kid to (h'lnk tlian it is to teach it to nnrse. 

 Tlie chief argument in favor of pan feeding is that a pan 

 or bucket is easier and less time consuming to take care 



Fig. 3S. — A galvanized mother. 



of tlian a l)ottlc and nipple. Tlie chief argument in 

 favor of nursing is tliat a normal little kid is a tremen- 

 dously eager, impetuous creature, and if allowed to 

 drink its milk will gulp it so fast as to incur the danger 

 of indigestion. Taken tln-ough a nip])le tlie process is 

 necessarily slower and tliereforc safer. In the larger 



