The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-07-09
PURE MILK FOR BABY
RIGHT KIND OF FOOD is ESSEN.
TiAL TO HEALTH.
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Their Presence Is suspected-Di-
rec1loEs for Home Pasteurization
Care of the Bottle.

Nothing is SO important to the
health Of the baby in summer as the
right kind OF food. When for any
reason breast milk cannot lie had a
substitute must be found.
Experience in many thousands Of
cases has shown that cows milk is
the only food that can take the place
Of mothers milk with even a fair pros
pect of having it agree with the baby.
Neither condensed milk nor the infant
foods sold in the stores are so good
as clean cows milk for the baby who
cannot have breast milk.
Germs multiply very rapidly in milk.
SO rapidly, in fact, that even If it is
reasonable clean when drawn it may
become dangerous food If left stand
ing in a warm place for some time.
These germs may be killed by heating
the milk. Boiling 1t for half an hour
is a safe method, and is sometimes
advisable in very hot weather; but
the method of heating the milk with
out boiling it called pasteurizing is
usually employed. An easy method
OF home pasteurization is as follows:
Put a gallon of water over the fire
in a clean pan or kettle. When the
water is boiling hard take he kettle
from the fire and allow 1t to stand on a
table for ten minutes uncovered Then
out il the filled and corked nursing
bottles and leave them for half an
hour, covering the kettle meanwhile
with a blanket. At the end of the half
hour remove the bottles and coo them
as quickly as possible to so degrees
and put them where they will keep
cold until needed.
When it is time to feed the baby
rake out a bottle and set it in a pail
of.warm water over the fire to heat.
The mother may test the warmth Of
the milk by sprinkling a few drops
on her arm. If it feels just slightly
warm it will be right for the baby.
After the baby has finished, the bot.
tie should be emptied, rinsed, and
filled with cold water. At some con-
yenient hour in the day the mother
will wash all the used bottles With
soap and warm water, using a bottle
brush to clean the inside OF them.
She should then rinse them and boil
them in the same pan or kettle in
which they We're pasteurized..
The nipples should be washed care.
fully. A little salt rubbed on the IN
side will remove the milk. They
should then be rinsed and dropped
into boiling water for a few moments.
They will dry with their own heat
when removed. They should then be
put away in a dry glass jar that has
also been boiled. covered and kept
out Of the light.
When handling the sterilized nip
pies take hold of them by the lower
rim. Do not touch the part which is
to go into the baby's mouth. Never
put the nipple into the mouth to test
the milk, as the baby might easily
be made sick il the mother happened
20 have a cold or throat trouble.
1t will be found convenient to have
enough bottles, nipples and clean bot
tie corks for the entire twenty-four
hours, and it will be a great saving
IF time If all the feelings are made
lp at N This will also insure their
being of uniform quality.
Whenever possible the baby's bot
les should be kept OF ice. A home
made refrigerator which will keep
milk sweet for 81 hours is easily and
eheaply made at home. For this pur-
pose procure a lard CT candy pail, or a
galvanized bucket, or ever a wooden
oox with a cover. In the bottom place
layer OF sawdust an inch thick.
inside the box or pail place another
smaller receptacle, such as a ~ten-quart
pail ltin), with a cover, and fill all
The space around it with sawdust.
milk.
The ice will keep longer If it is
broken up and enclosed in a small
covered pail. Put the little pail in
he bottom Of the refrigerator and
pack the bottles around it, and put the
over on. Then close the outer cover,
which for additional protection may
,e lined with newspapers, or with a
cushion stuffed with hay or straw.
Where ice cannot be had, the bottles
nay stand in a pail, under a stream
II running water.
A bottle baby should be fed with
he same regularity as a nursing baby.
The bottles may be given at 6 and
J a. m, at II noon, and at 3, 6 and
p m. Up to the age of four months
he baby will iced one more night
'eeding. After that. he should sleep
I'll night.
Beginning at the fifth month the
line between feelings should be
enlightened q quarter Of an hour each
!, week until the interval is four hours.
when the baby is six months ia. Give
40 other food than the bottle feedings
ind drinking water in the lrst few
months OF the baby's life.
The baby should nurse y Wy, but
,ught to finish his feeding q about
twenty minutes. II he Il hi lined a.
lake his food too greedil. Tithdk&&
he nipple from his moltL ssx
tines during the feeding enc! Tt
rest q moment.