The Arizona copper camp., 1919-11-29
GOAT MILK ideal
FOOD FOR INFANTS
BY Or. Louis G. Knox

department OF agriculture reports or
various state experiment stations and
most flatterihg encomiums from hos
pitfalls, infant asylums and santa
RUINS, both in Europe and America,
makes me strongly advise the breed
ing and utilizing Of the milk of the
goat as the most perfect nourishment
for the infant, the child, the invalid
and the aged, inasmuch as it pro-
vides the only prophylactic, uninfec-
tious food for mankind from it's ear
liest infancy, furnishing those chem
ical elements Of nutrition Identical
with human milk, so necessary to
build up the foundation of robust
and healthy constitution, which is the
greatest blessing of life.
All statistics prove that cows milk
today is not a safe food for infants
and children on account of it's indi-
gestibility and the large percentage
of known tutercular infection. And
as the goat is nearly immune from
tuberculosis, it produces the only
wholesome and reliable milk within
reach. The fourth annual report of
the District Of Columbia Association
for the Prevention of tuberculosis,
and this is the most reliable and
highest source Of information in the
United States, tells us that one
fourth of all cases Of tuberculosis
among children under 16 years OF
age, and one-eighth Of all fatal cases
under five years of age, are due to
bovine tuberculosis.
And among children fed exclusive
ly on cows milk, nine out OF ten
cases Of fatal tuberculosis revealed
that five, or IS per cent, were due
to bovine Infection. The most noted
authorities Of Europe and this coun.
try agree that the perfect assim-
ilation of goats milk is due to it's
chemical composition. It's immunity
from the danger of carrying the
germs Of tuberculosis makes it the
ne plus ultra of all foods.
There is a general lack of know1-
edge in this country in relation to
the goat, its varieties, its uses, etc.
1t has not attained the place to which
it is entitled in many phases of it's
usefulness, and the milk possibilities
In particular are not sufficiently un-
derstood by the MASSES to he appre-
ciated.
A few pioneers and scientists of
late years have placed the milk goat
as worthy of an exalted place among
our domesticated miIk-proddcing an
imals, equal to the high regard that
has been established for it in the old
world, especially in Switzerland,
France, Germany and Italy. What
prejudice there is against goats and
their milk is founded upon ignorance
rather than experience.
The milch goat situation in the
United States at present is confined
to an insistent demand for informa-
ton on the subject.
Physicians who know the ilealthful
qualities of goats milk are consid-
| ering the possibility or obtaining a
supply for the needs of their pa
tients. People in moderate circum-
stances in the suburbs of our cities
are asking whether they cannot do
better by keeping goats. All classes
to whom milk is a luxury are won
dering if they cannot find a blessing
and profitable friend in the milch
| goat.
Goats Make Healthy Children
1t seems needless to say that the
fnilch goat is superior to the COW
! when it comes to the production Of
high-grade milk, and it is economy
to the day laborer. as you will see
from the following assertions, which
are Eased ON facts:
Goat milk can be produced for
about one-eighth the cost Of cows
milk In the matter Of feed.
Goat milk can be produced with
one-half the trouble ais compared
with cows milk.
Goat milk contains twice the butter
fat contained in the best cows milk.
Goat milk is much easier of diges-
ton than cows milk.
Goat milk is far superior to cows
milk for infants.
Goat milk is much purer than cows
milk owing to the fact that the goat
is practically immune from all infec-
tious diseases common among cows.
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