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His Feeding and Care 
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R EFERRING to the article on page 
641, entitled “The Significance of 
the Sign,” while I must now profess ig¬ 
norance as to what is meant by that, I 
should say from the facts presented that 
“Gertie” had brought her baby up accord¬ 
ing to the approved modern method, viz.: 
of weaning babies when they are nine or 
10 months old. The reason she had no 
trouble in weaning him, and that he took 
to being fed with a spoon, was probably 
because he had been given water with a 
spoon regularly twice a day from the 
time he was a few days old. At any rate 
he had had it often enough to accustom 
him to it. 
My doctor told me to accustom my chil¬ 
dren to a bottle by giving them hot water 
(as hot as a mother’s milk) whenever 
they had colic, hiccoughs or indigestion. 
This they would take if starved into it. 
which is in no way as harsh as Avhat 
“starved into it” would seem to express, 
for babies should not be fed while having 
any of the above mentioned things the 
matter with them. In giving hot water 
for those troubles there are no bad after 
effects as when medicines of different 
kinds are given. The advantage to be 
gained by getting them used to the bot¬ 
tle is that when they are weaned they 
can be put in their crib each time they 
are fed and the bottle propped up so the 
milk is always ready at the nipple, and 
no air will be drawn in to give them 
colic. Naturally this is a great saving 
of time to the mother besides being good 
for the baby, for when it is nap time and 
night time he will generally fall off to 
sleep as soon as he finishes his bottle. 
The nipple on the bottle should not have 
a large enough hole in it to allow the 
milk to come out except when the child 
sucks on it. 
I would like to make a plea to farm 
mothers to give their babies more fresh 
air by putting them to sleep in the day¬ 
time, Summer and Winter (except in bit¬ 
ter weather) out of doors, and having 
the windows wide open at night in the 
bedrooms. They will be so much health¬ 
ier and so much less care when teething 
and even beyond that age. Both my 
children were delicate at birth, but now 
they are strong and sturdy. This has 
just come from fresh air, plenty of sleep 
and proper food for their age. Up to the 
time they were five years old they went 
to bed at six o’clock, taking a nap in the 
morning, and I never allowed them to 
have pastry of any kind, nor pork in any 
form, until after they were seven. Tea 
and coffee they will not be allowed to 
have until they are 16. When anything 
outside of milk or buttermilk is wanted 
they are given cocoa, which is very 
healthful and nourishing. 
If country mothers who have so much 
to do would train their babies to regular 
habits in the way of eating and sleeping, 
and would not carry them around in 
their arms so much just because they cry 
a little, they would find it much easier 
for them, for they could plan their work 
accordingly. I know this is so from both 
experience and observation. 
MRS. FLORENCE BELLE. 
Give the Baby a Chance. 
FIND many children in the country 
suffering cruelly from improper feed¬ 
ing and care. It is the result of ignor¬ 
ance rather than anything else. While 
at a picnic last Summer a woman had 
a 10-weeks-old baby that cried all day 
with colic. Yet that mother told, some¬ 
what boastfully, I thought, how fond the 
tiny thing was of ice cream. She was 
not a young woman but a middle-aged, 
with six children older than the infant. 
Some of the children were married. Per¬ 
haps such a case is hopeless, but there 
are many in the country who never read 
any papers or magazines except the farm 
papers. Such women can be reached only 
by them. If the department could de¬ 
vote some space to the hygiene and rear¬ 
ing of children it would be fine. After 
all, they are the farmer’s best crop. I 
read with much interest what has been 
printed on the subject, and would appre¬ 
ciate more. I have two little chaps of 
my own, and though they are husky little 
men I don’t feel I know enough about 
them to rear them properly. 
GERTRUDE JACK. 
Milk, Eggs and Better Farm Children. 
Balanced Ration for Humans. 
IIE farmer goes through his herd, 
rubs his hands affectionately over 
the flanks, feels of the skin or inspects 
with his eye every creature in the long 
line. He stops—for he sees something 
wrong in skin or appetite! The diet of 
the ailing animal is changed. 
The farmer goes to his house and finds 
his child is out of sorts. It is pale, 
anaemic, listless. It continues to eat the 
Enjoying a Sun Batii. 
same food as its father— but is given a 
dose of medicine. 
The farmer gives his cows and horses, 
his calves, pigs and chickens balanced ra¬ 
tions. His child eats “just what we do.” 
His cream is sent to the creamery, his 
skimmed milk is fed to calves and pigs, 
and his eggs are sold at the store. His 
calves and pigs flourish, his bank account 
grows but his child wilts. 
Give your child an even chance with 
the pig, and see his cheeks grow red and 
feel his little muscles grow firm and elas¬ 
tic. Skimp the pig and give the young¬ 
ster skimmed milk to drink. Do not 
scorn skimmed milk. The figures in the 
following table shows what a superior 
food milk is even when skimmed. 
Protein Fat Carb. 
Skimmed milk 3.4% .3% 5.1% 
Whole milk 3.3% 4.0% 5.0% 
Last Winter I had an unusual chance 
to see how the country child eats and I 
know that some parents need to be 
shocked into having as much solicitation 
about balanced rations for their children 
as they now have for calves and pigs and 
the proper kind of mixed feed to make 
the hens lay. “They don’t like it”—“they 
won’t touch it” is the common defence 
for depriving the children of milk. “We 
eat them when they get cheaper”—“we 
eat them then till we get tired of them” 
is the reason offered for sending all the 
eggs to the store. Whose fault is it that 
the children prefer coffee and tea to 
milk? 
I had supper and breakfast with the 
Browns. At both meals two small boys, 
pale, listless little fellows, and I ate fried, 
dried-up meat, potato, pickles, cookies, 
cake, pie and doughnuts. Together we 
drank poor coffee and tea. For breakfast 
we had a tablespoonful of one of the most 
expensive and least nutritious ready-to- 
eat cereals with an infinitesimal amount 
of milk. In the pantry were big bowls 
of eggs readu to go to the store. In the 
separator room were 300 quarts of milk, 
but only two quarts a day and no cream 
came to the house. Meantime the blood 
of those little shavers was simply crying 
out for more red corpuscles which eggs 
will build better than anything else, and 
their bones and tissues were soft and 
flabby for want of lime, while milk con¬ 
tains more lime than saturated lime 
water. 
Eggs should be used by the whole fam¬ 
ily every day, but if you honestly find 
that you can’t afford them every day for 
yourselves, try to give at least one to 
your child. Rob the storekeeper and save 
out a few eggs for your child. It is poor 
economy to sell- eggs and milk and buy 
meat. If you raise your own meat it is 
poor economy to feed it three times a day 
to yourself, for the body is burdened to 
get rid of harmful products which meat 
forms. If too much meat is bad for 
grown-ups think of the effect on your 
child. 
Mrs. Brown said to me: “I don’t like 
Winter. It seems as if we have so much 
more sickness then. Frank (the 16-year- 
old son) has had to lay off work for a 
couple of weeks on account of boils and 
the other two children have been sick off 
and on all Winter.” She saw no connec¬ 
tion between Winter diet and boils, Sum¬ 
mer diet and health. 
Vegetables and fruit are of the greatest 
importance in the development of chil¬ 
dren, and should be eaten freely by every¬ 
one.' It would be better to bring the 
child up on a strictly vegetarian diet 
than on the present one of so much meat. 
If we limit the important sources of iron 
(fruit and vegetables) we cause a slug¬ 
gish blood formation and an entire ab¬ 
sence of reserve iron such as is usually 
found in healthy individuals. They neu¬ 
tralize acids and other harmful sub¬ 
stances in the blood and tissues. 
It is just as easy to plant the seeds of 
good health as of sickness, if you will 
take the pains to learn how. Usually the 
three meals a day are planned with en¬ 
tire reference to the man's need. They 
consist of meat, potatoes, bread, butter, 
pickles, pie, cake, cookies, doughnuts, 
coffee or tea. These things may be all 
right for the farmer and the woodsman, 
but they are not all right for the child. 
The sweets for children at the end of 
the. meal are, properly, jams, stewed 
fruits, cookies, puddings made of milk 
and eggs or fruit jellies. Children should 
never have pies or doughnuts, which con¬ 
tain too much cooked fat, neither should 
they have any fried foods. The child will 
never miss what it has never had. It is 
the mistaken kindness of giving “just a 
little taste” . of grown-up’s food that 
makes the mischief leading to abnormal 
cravings. You are kind to your child 
only if you feed him so that he will be 
well while he is growing and after he 
is grown. 
Cream, . milk and eggs are the best 
muscle building foods for children. Pork, 
pie, doughnuts, tea and coffee are the 
worst things which your child can have. 
ANNETTE CHASE DIMOCK. 
BUSINESS 
Y~\IsGoodWith Us 
r April was the biggest cream separator 
month In our history. There must be a 
/ reason for it! First— It’s because the New 
J Galloway Sanitary Cream Separator Is 
“without an equal at any price. Second— 
It’s because thousands upon thousands of 
the people are waking 
up to true trade con- J —*“ 
ditlons and believe 
in buying direct 
.at wholesale .A' ...: J 
B-10 
prices. The Cream Separator rush Is on. 
Orders are coming in thicker and faster 
than ever. Write me today. This is 
your opportunity to get the best, neat¬ 
est designed, closest skimming, easi¬ 
est running separator made at a price 
that has competition on the run. 
Galloway’s New 
Credit Plants 
arator. Ordernow. Pay later. I’ll 
trust you. Five dlfforont soiling 
plans. The New Galloway Sanitary 
Is a mechanical masterpiece, dust 
proof, enclosed gears, runs in a con¬ 
stant bath of oil, sold on 30 to 90 days 
trial. I’ll back it against any make 
at any price and let you be the 
judge whether it is up to claims. 
Wm. Gallows” e-ns. 
Wm. Galloway Co. 273 Gallo¬ 
way Station, Wator.uo, Iowa. 
The County Fairs 
Will Begin 
Next Month 
and these fairs will 
be found a good 
source of subscription 
work for The Rural 
New-Y orker. 
Write for details. 
Department “M” 
The Rural New-Yorker 
333 West 30th Street 
27 New York City 
HOT WEATHER 
the ideal time 
to use a 
SEPARATOR 
THERE IS NO TIME WnEN 
the use of the De Laval Cream 
Separator is so indispensable to 
the profitable production of 
cream or butter as during the 
hot weather of midsummer. 
THE USE OF THE SEPARATOR 
at this season usually means the 
difference between a profit and a 
loss in dairying. It accomplishes 
a great saving of butter-fat that 
goes to waste with any other 
method of separation and enables 
the production of a higher qual ity 
of cream than is otherwise 
possible. 
MOREOVER WITH A DE LAVAL 
the advantages over other cream 
separators are greatest at this 
season because the separation is 
more complete and the cream 
heavier and more even in tex¬ 
ture. De Laval machines turn 
more easily and the capacity is 
greater, doing the work more 
quickly. 
IF YOU HAVEN’T A SEPARA- 
tor you can scarcely afford to 
put off any longer the purchase 
of a De Laval, or if you have a 
separator which is not doing sat¬ 
isfactory work there is no better 
time to discard it in favor of a 
De Laval, first trying the ma¬ 
chines side by side for your own 
satisfaction, which every De 
Laval agent will he glad to give 
you the opportunity to do. 
See the nearest De Laval agent AT ONCE, or if you do not know 
him write direct to nearest office below for any desired information 
The De Laval Separator Co., 29 E. Madison St., Chicago 
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