FEEDING--CONTINUED

How to Prepare Milk Mixtures--Sterilizing the Food for the
Day's Feeding--How to Test the Temperature of the Food for
Baby--When to Increase the Quality or Quantity of Food--Food
Allowable During the First Year in Addition to Milk--Beef
Juice--White of Egg--Orange Juice--Peptonized Milk--The Hot or
Immediate Process--The Cold Process--Partially Peptonized
Milk--Completely Peptonized Milk--Uses of Peptonized
Milk--Objections to Peptonized Milk--What a Mother Should Know
About Baby's Feeding Bottle and Nipple--Should a Mother Put Her
Baby on Artificial Food if Her Supply of Milk, During the First
Two Weeks is not Quite Enough to Satisfy it--Certain Conditions
Justify the Adoption of Artificial Feeding from the
Beginning--Mothers' Mistakes in the Preparation of Artificial
Food--Feeding During the Second Year--Sample Meals for a Child
Three Years of Age--The Diet of Older Children--Meats,
Vegetables, Cereals, Bread, Desserts--Fruits.

HOW TO PREPARE MILK MIXTURES

The mother should always remember, that the secret of success in raising
a baby efficiently on artificial food is to be cleanly and to be exact.
The bottles and the nipples must be scrupulously clean; the hands of the
mother must be clean; the water used must be boiled and each ingredient
must be measured exactly.

First dissolve the sugar in the boiled water, which must be the exact
quantity; then remove the top-milk and measure the exact amount wanted
in the graduate, pour into the jar, add the water and sugar mixture, and
finally the lime water.

It is always desirable to make the entire quantity for the day at one
time. After the total quantity has been mixed in the jar, fill each
bottle with the amount for each feeding, put in a cotton stopper, and
place the bottles in the ice box.

In measuring the sugar, it should be remembered that two scant
dipperfuls equal one ounce by weight of the sugar.

When each individual bottle is to be filled, do it with the aid of the
glass funnel which has been previously sterilized.

STERILIZING THE FOOD FOR THE DAY'S FEEDING.--The simplest method is to
place the two-quart jar containing the milk mixture for the next
twenty-four hours' feeding upon a saucer in the bottom of an open pan,
and then to pour enough tepid water into the pan (outside of the jar)
until it will come up as high as the milk level. The water in