Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-09-23
SKIM MILK FOR BABY
Experiments Which Go to Show
Former Is Good for Latter.
Al New York woman Uses TounE Pigs
and Finda That They Thrive on
skim MiIk-AddinE OF Lactose
and bextrose Improves Il.

II the milk left on your doorstep in
the small hours Of the morning has
been put through a thinning" process
BY too much watering, OF has had the
cream extracted, il does not necessart-
ly follow that the milk is not good for
babies. Simply add a little dextrose
or lactose, which are different varieties
of sugar, and feed to the hungry IN
FAINT. It should thrive and wax fatand
cry just as Justify as though it we're
fed of the finest Jersey"
Especially when milk-fat ~disagrees
with an infant as is so often the ease
with breast-fed babies, there is reason
TO believe, so far as late experiments
in physiological chemistry 60 to show,
that skim milk, with the proper kind
Of sugar added, is a good diet for the
babe. However, the injunction is:
"Avoid too much water"
This is one of the conclusions
reached by Margaret B. Wilson in the
experiments which she is now conduct
ing in Bellevue Hospital Medical col
lege, New York city. Experiments
along similar lines are being conduct
ed at the University of Chicago, where
Miss Wilson's Investigations are at
tracing much attention.
A brief account Of Miss Wilson's ex-
pertinent follows:
"Three newborn pigs Of the same
Hitter were obtained and reared on
skim milk. OF these three, one, the
skim-milk pig, was fed on skim milk
alone; another, the lactose pig, re-
ceived the same skim milk to which
three per cent. of lactose had been
added; and a third pig. the d~extrose
pig. was nourished with the same skim
milk, to which three per cent, of
dextrose had been added. After is
days the pigs were killed and submitted
TO analysis.
"The three pigs which were fed on
the three milks described grew rap
idly and normally. The dextrose pig,
! which was heaviest at the start, took
/ his food with greater slowness than
the others. sometimes sucking As
minutes in taking the volume of milk
which the other two drank in IS min.
utes."
As one result Of her Investigations
Miss Wilson found that the skinned
0 milk pigs gained as much as so pei
e cent. in weight in from IA to- 16 days
e which, she says, is an apparently nor
NAL growth.
e When the pigs we're killed it wa.
found that the skimmed-milk pig ha'
increased the least in fat. The lactos
Il pig had increased the most.
The skimmed-miR pig was, however
lie a close second to the lactose pig whe
it came to the proportion Of heat unit
retained to the number of heat unit
rs in the food consumed.
lie The results show further that a larg
and apparently normal growth take
h place when SKINNED milk, containin
a plentiful supply Of proteid, is fed, an
that this growth is favorably Unfit
enced by the addition of sugars, whie
h. improve the nutritive value in ths
they add further calorifc power to Il
milk.
Of The presenee Of fat in the mi
he greatly reduces the bulk necessary
m supply the needed calorics; but wh'
a milk-fat d~isagrees with an infar
in there seems to be reason to believe tn
iaI SKINNED milk with milk-sugar,
l%actose, can be fed without prejudice
err effect.