Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-07-21

milk to be produced than from q rich
soil. 1t will have a. different bearing
on Its healthfulness and it will build
up g. different structure. If it is
lacking In the material for bony
structure, a man or animal raised on
such milk will be dwarfed in bones and
structure.
Milk is the only perfect food for g.
short time in the life of any animal.
Milk is perfect food for infent NAM
malta. 1t is just right in fuidity, just
right In mineral constituents, in flesh
forming material, and In heat-produc-
ing material, but that period for which
1T Is just right is short, that is, when
spoken of as q complete food. A child
or animal kept on milk alone will not
develop to it's fullest extent and be
most vigorous and healthy all the
way along. 1t requires something else
besides milk to maintain the animal
organism perfectly at all periods of
lie. In infancy we are rapidly build.
! ing up structure, bones and tissue,
hence we require an extra amount of
bone-forming and fesh-forming mate
rial in our food. Hence if milk is Just
right for that purpose in infancy it
would not be right in age, because the
building has stopped.
| So with flesh. forming matter, q pro-
portion of which would suit the child
and would not suit the man. The
man is not building up flesh. He is
| wasting 1T rather, SO the proportion
| OF t1eshforming matter and heat-form-
| ing matter must be different in infancy
than In old age. In infancy we want
that which will build up, but for adult
ANIMALS we want something to supply
waste and to keep the body warm.
Milk does not furnish sufficient heat
producing matter to supply adults.
Milk is simply designed for infants,
and the recommending or urging it as
g. suitable food for all ages and all
seasons is not sound.
| Skinned milk is very poor material
for old people. 1t is hard to digest
and contains such disproportion of
flesh-forming and mineral matter as to
throw the system out of balance.
SKINNED milk is not good even for
Infants, because there is an excess
even tor them of material for building
up. Skinned milk does not digest as
new milk does. Collected in the form
of butter, the oils in milk aid diges-
| ton.
| In some experiments with volatile
oils it has been noticed how they pene-
trate. II you take essential oils and
| apply them to the hardest tallow,
! they will run all through it and the
particles of tallow will separate from
each other SO easily that it melts at g.
very much lower temperature than it
would without the presence of these
oils. When such oil is taken with
meat into the stomach it works just
SO with the meat. The volatile oils in
| butter will penetrate q piece or meat
or cheese just as it does the tsallow,
having a tendency to push the par
| tlcles ofmeat apart SO that they fall to
| pieces by solution so easily that they
become liquid much more readily
than if they were together In a solid
mass. So these butter oils play an inn
portant part in the digestion of other
sollds.-Prof arnold, before the New
York State Dairymen's association.
Notes.
THE small mess of milk furnished by
one COW may be far richer than the
larger quantity obtained from another
cow. And it is the butter yield that
is the best test of a cows value.
THE second annual Territorial Fair,
will be held under the auspices of the
Dakota Board Of Agriculture, at
Huron, beginning September and
continuing four days. Over SIS, 1000
!! will be offered in premiums.
THE root crops for swine should con-
sist of a variety; the farmer should
grow not only beets and turnips for
them, but parsnips and carrots also.
The cheapest pork is that made by
securing rapid growth on roots and
grass.
A MIXTURE of skinned milk, buck
wheat bran, and cobmeal with good
corn fodder should be very good feed
for ordinary occasions, but in fatten-
ing an animal an evenly balanced food
is not wanted, but one rich in car
bohydrates, and corn meal bran and
corn fodder would be the best.