Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-09
SKIM MILK FOR BABY
Experiments Which Go to Show
Former Is Good for Latter.
A New York WOman Uses YOunG PigH
and Finds That they Thrive on
skim Milk-AddtnE Of LaetOse
and D~extrOso Improves IL.

If the milk left on your doorstep in
the small hours of the morning has
been put through . thinning" process
by too much watering, or has had the
cream extracted, II does not necessari-
" 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 easOn
70 believe, so far as late experiments
in physiological chemistry 90 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 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 anne skim milk to which
three per cent. Of lactose had been
added; and a third pig, the dextrose
pig, wa nourished with the same skim
milk, to which three per cent. 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 thatthe 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 skimnled-milk pig had
increased the least in fat. The lactoss
pig had increased the most.
The skimmed-milk pig was, however
a close second to the lactose pig wheT
it anne to the proportion of heat units
retained to the number Of heat unit
in the food consumed.
The results show further that a larg,
and apparently normal growth take
place when SKINNED milk. containing
a plentiful supply of proteid, is fed, an,
that this growth is favorably infu
eneed by the addition Of sugars, whicI
T improve the nutritive value in tina
8 they add further ~calorifc power to tn
milk.
The presence Of fat in the mil
greatly reduces the bulk necessary t
supply the needed calorics; but whe
! milk-fat disagrees with an infan.
there seems to be reason 10 believe tina
skinned milk with milk-sugar, Q
q ~lactose, can be fed without prejudicii
effect.