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phernalia. The milk is drawn into covered pails, through a small aperture 

 in the top, and falls through sterile cheesecloth into the bottom of the pail. 

 It is immediately aerated and cooled, is put into bottles at the farm, and 

 kept on ice until it reaches the consumer. The milk contains nearly 5 .per 

 cent, butterfat and averages but 2,000 to 5,000 bacteria to the c. c. 



It will not be necessary to pasteurize this milk, and the modified milk 

 mixtures above recommended will be found much superior to dirty milk 

 ■which has been sterilized and modified. The top-milk should be removed 

 from the bottles on their arrival, and kept on ice, to give good results. This 



milk is subject to frequent bacteriological and chemical tests by Dr. 



and Mr. at the County Medical Society Laboratory. The formulae 



are taken from Holt, as recommended by him for healthy infants, and the 

 following table is also from his book: 



Schedule for Feeding a Healthy Child During the First Nine Months. 



The reason for diluting cow's milk lies in the fact that the 

 proteids are so much greater in amount in cow's than in women's 

 milk (see p. 47), and also that the proteids in cow's milk are less 

 digestible * than in human milk — for babies. Many recent experi- 

 ments have apparently shown that this reasoning, which has been 

 generally adopted by physicians, is wrong and that the fat in cow's 

 milk is the indigestible nutrient for babies. It is said that rich cow's 

 milk forms large, indigestible curds in the stomach and that, even 

 in calves, rich cow's milk is less wholesome than skim milk. This 

 latter is a. fact. It is further said that rich cow's milk abstracts 

 alkaline salts from the body in order that these salts may saponify 

 and so aid digestion of the fat in the bowels. And again, that this 

 removal of alkaline salts or mineral matter is what brings on scurvy 

 and rickets in babies. This is probably untrue or but partially true. 



* In the infant stomach the curd of cow's is much tougher than that of human 

 milk. 



