l soon gain gradually and regularly.

SPECIAL MONTHLY RULES FOR A BOTTLE-FED BABY.

Formula of food.--For the first month: skim off carefully the top six
ounces from a quart bottle of pure milk, add to this twenty-four ounces of
boiled water, in which water three teaspoonfuls of granulated or six
teaspoonfuls of milk sugar have been dissolved, and then add a pinch of
soda, or else one and one-half ounces of lime-water. Mix all these
ingredients thoroughly, and then pour the correct quantity into each of
ten clean nursing bottles. Tightly cork these bottles with clean cotton,
and they can all be pasteurized or heated to a temperature of 155 degrees
F. (Some say higher).

What strength is given to a bottle-fed baby of two months? From the top of
a quart bottle of pure milk that has stood from three to six to eight
hours, skim carefully off the top six ounces and then pour off three
ounces of milk and mix them with the top milk (first skimmed off) making
nine ounces in all; add to the nine ounces, twenty-four ounces of boiled
water in which you should have dissolved four teaspoonfuls of granulated
sugar, or six or seven teaspoonfuls of milk sugar; add a pinch of salt and
a pinch of bicarbonate of soda, or two ounces of lime-water.

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Formula for the third month.--(This is often used), Carefully skim off the
top six ounces from a quart bottle of pure milk, then pour off six ounces
of milk, twelve ounces in all, and now add twelve ounces of boiled water
in which three teaspoonfuls of granulated or six of milk sugar have been
dissolved, with a pinch of soda or else two ounces of lime-water; add then
twelve ounces of barley or oatmeal gruel, divide into eight bottles,
pasteurize, etc.; cool quickly and place where the temperature is 50
degrees F., until meal time, when one of the bottles should be warmed by
placing it in warm water. Pour a little out in a spoon to test the warmth,
etc.; when the milk is lukewarm remove the cotton cork and attach the
rubber nipple. He should be fed regularly and equally every three hours up
to ten p. m., then have one at two or three a. m., and nothing until seven
a. m. He should get three and one-half to four ounces at each meal, so
that much should be put in each bottle.

What is the formula for a bottle-fed baby of four months? For a healthy
baby, six ounces of top milk skimmed from the top of a quart bottle of
milk, six ounces of milk then poured off, twenty-