1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
635 
THE OLD COW OUTDONE. 
How Man Improves Her Milk. 
MILKING TIIE GLASS COW. 
Milk at 25 Cents a Quart! 
That price and even more is paid for 
some of the milk sold in New York City. 
No doubt there are thousands of farm¬ 
ers within shipping distance of New 
York who are glad to obtain 10 per cent 
of this price. But this is “Modified 
Milk”—modified, manipulated and made 
over by human skill so that the cow 
that first gave it to the world would 
hardly recognize it. The farmer will 
claim that the old cow knows her busi¬ 
ness well enough, and that no two-leg¬ 
ged milk handler can improve on her 
product. Some of the doctors and the 
babies in New York think otherwise, 
and their desire has led to the great de¬ 
mand for modified or made-over milk. 
I recently went through the plant of 
the Walker-Gordon Laboratory and saw 
how the milk is handled. 
Teaching the Cow. —It is true that 
a healthy cow understands her business. 
The milk she produces was designed by 
Nature to nourish her calf. Man steps in 
and takes lue calf away, and says that 
the milk is a perfect food for humans. 
So it is for those whose digestive powers 
are equal to these of the call. Children 
and adults as well are not alike in their 
ability to digest, even so simple a food 
as milk. The calf itself is brought up 
on a “modified' milk. The cream is 
taken off, and the rkim-milk forms the 
basis for the calf’s food.* The fat taken 
in the cream is suplied in the form of 
linseed meal, egg, boiled oatmeal or even 
“oleo” oil, until the little thing has a 
stomach strong enough to dispose of 
rougher products. The calf is a master 
at the business of digesting milk. We 
are glad to take his stomach to make 
rennet for our cheese-making. 
Theoretical Milk. —Our little human 
calves, if fond young parents will excuse 
the expression, vary greatly in their di¬ 
gestive ability. Some of them have a 
hard struggle for life at best. Witn 
some of them, the foundations for dys¬ 
pepsia are laid before they can talk 
about them. At the Walker-Gordon 
Laboratory, a chart hung on the wall 
with the following taole: 
THEORETICAL MILK. 
Per cent 
Milk 
fat. sugar. 
Protein. 
1 week.... 
.2 
5 
0.75 
2 weeks... 
.3i/ 2 
6 
1 
3 “ ... 
.3 
6 
1 
4-6 “ ... 
.3i/ 2 
1 
6-S 
.3>/ 2 
6% 
1% 
8-16 “ ... 
.4 
7 
IVz 
16-24 “ ... 
.4 
7 
2 
24-32 “ ... 
.4 
7 
2 
32-36 “ ... 
.4 
7 
2% 
36-40 “ ... 
.4 
6% 
21/2 
40-44 “ ... 
.4 
5 
3 
44-48 “ ... 
.4 
4% 
3% 
48-52 “ ... 
.4 
4% 
4 
That is the doctor’s 
estimate of the 
way a child 
should be 
fed 
for the first 
year of its life. At birth, the child is to 
be fed a 
three-per-cent 
solution of 
milk sugar 
in water. 
This is for the 
first 24 hours. Then for the first week, 
two per cent of fat are added, and a 
little protein. The milk is changed 
thereafter as shown in the table. The 
ration is one ounce per day at the be¬ 
ginning, and nine ounces per day at 
the end. It is quite evident that they 
do not expect the cuild to become very 
muscular during the first few weeks of 
his life. The protein is nicely regulated 
At the Fairs 
we always meet old friends of the 
paper who wish to renew their ac¬ 
quaintance and subscriptions.’ Where 
we cannot attend ourselves, we de¬ 
sire to make arrangements with some 
other friend of the pape to repre¬ 
sent us. Perhaps you are just the 
man to do it. Will you? If so, write 
us, giving date and place of the fair 
you will attend. We will send you 
terms and samples. 
The Rural New-Yorker, 
New York. 
to suit the time when the child would 
creep or walk. 
Human milk varies greatly in compo¬ 
sition, and is more susceptible to 
changes which effect the infant than 
any other. It is slightly alkaline while 
cow’s milk is acid. It is probable that 
some children are but poorly nourished 
by the milk of their mothers, or that 
of an ordinary wet nurse. Doctors 
boldly claim tha*. the “theoretical milk” 
described in the table and carefully pre¬ 
pared, is better and safer for the child 
than the ordinary human milk. The 
business of the Walker-Gordon Labora¬ 
tory is to mix this milk accurately, and 
distribute it. 
What is the Value of a Baby? It 
costs about $180 per year to feed a child 
on this theoretical milk. This may seem 
like a great price to those who may be 
said to feed a child on odds and ends; 
yet there are plenty of people in the 
great cities who consider this a small 
price to pay for a little human life. 
How Is the milk modified? They start 
with the skim-milk from which the fat 
has all been removed. There is no way 
of extracting the protein or muscle- 
makers from the milk. There is no way 
either of adding to the proportion of 
protein except by slowly evaporating 
the skim-milk. The protein in milk is 
the most soluble form of that substance 
—more digestible than the white of an 
egg or beef tea. Nothing can be added 
to take its place. In some forms of kid¬ 
ney disease, a sp cial form of milk 
rich in protein, is found useful, but 
about four per cent is the highest or¬ 
dinarily required. Of course, milk sugar 
can be added by dissolving it in water, 
and pouring it into the milk. 
Milking Glass Cows.—The methods 
of modifying the milk are very simple, 
yet effective. A number of large glass 
jars, which we may call auxiliary cows, 
are hung on a stout frame. At the 
lower end of each of these glass cows, 
is a rubber time which may be “milked” 
about like the rubber “teat” on a Small’s 
calf feeder. These glass cows vary 
much more in the quality of tneir yield 
than Jersey and Holstein cows. One 
contains skim-milk, another distilled 
water, another pure cream of standard 
strength, another a definite solution of 
milk sugar, and another lime water. 
Milking these glass cows is a simple 
operation. The milk is handled in glass 
tubes or bottles, which are accurately 
graded or marked. Suppose the child is 
nine months old. A certain marked 
quantity is put in the bottle, then 
enough of the sugared water to fill up to 
another mark is m’lked in, and so on 
with cream, lime water or distilled 
water, until the limit is reached. Then 
the tube is filled with absorbent cotton, 
and put, with others, in a wicker basket 
which is put into cold water. Other 
things are sometimes put in the milk 
when called for, but I will tell about 
them next week. h. w. c. 
A queer partnership exists between a 
couple of dogs on the duck farm of A. J. 
Hallock which was recently described in 
The R. N.-Y. A Collie and a Pox terrier 
go about hunting together. If they find a 
rat or other animal in a burrow, the Collie 
-.tomediately sets to work to dig him out, 
while the Terrier looks lazily on. But 
when the varmint is unearthed, the Collie 
considers his work done, and refuses to 
have anything further to do with the mat¬ 
ter, while the Terrier falls to and makes 
short work of the game. It’s a plain case 
of cooperation, and It is evident that each 
does the part of the work most congenial 
(o him. 
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Nitrogea .7.00 “ 
Protein.. 43.00 “ 
Crude Fat and OH.0.00 “ 
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