Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-05-27
SKIM MILK FOR BABY
Experiments Which GO to Show
Former Is Good for Latter.
A New York Woman Uses Young Pigs
and Finds That They Thrive on
skim MIIk-AddiuE of LactOse
and DextrOse Improves Il.

If the milk left on your doorstep in
the small hours Of the morning has
been put through a thinning" process
by too much watering, or has had the
cream extracted, it does not necessari-
ly follow that the milk is not good for
babies. Simply add a little dextrose
or l%actose, which are different varieties
of sugar, and feed TO the hungry in
FAINT. 1t should thrive and wax fatand
cry just as Justify as though it were
fed of the finest Jersey"
Especially when milk-fat disagrees
with an infant, as is so often the case
with breast-fed babies, there is reason
to believe, so far as late experiments
in physiological chemistry go to show,
that skim milk, with the proper kind
Of sugar added, is a good diet for the
babe. However, the injunction Isl:
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 coli
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
litter 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 dextrose
pig, was nourished with the same skim
milk, to which three per cen of
dextrose had been added. After 16
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
milk pigs gained as much as so per
cent. in weight in from IA to- 16 DAYS,
which, she says, is an apparently nor
NAL growth.
When the pigs were killed It was
found that the skimmed-milk pig had
increased the least in fat. The lactose
pig had increased the most.
The skimmed-milk pig was, however,
a close second to the lactose pig when
1t came to the proportion of heat units
retained to the number of heat units
in the food consumed.
The results show further that a large
and apparently normal growth takes
place when skinned milk, containing
a plentiful supply of proteid, is fed, and
that this growth is favorably inhu.
enced by the addition of sugars, which
improve the nutritive value in that
they add further caloriic power to the
milk.
The presence Of fat in the milk
greatly reduces the bulk necessary to
supply the needed ~calorics; but when
milk-fat disagrees with an infant,
there seems to be reason to believe that
skinned milk with m~ilk-sugar. or
l%actose, can be fed without prejudicial
effect.