Baby's feeding schedule should be about as follows:

6 A. M. Milk.

10 A. M. grape juice or other sweet fruit juice. (In the south fresh fig juice may be used in season.)

12 Noon, Milk.

3 P. M. to 4 p. M,, orange juice or tomato juice or grapefruit juice, or other juice.

6 P. M. Milk.

Artificial Infant Feeding

So artificial are we in our habits of thinking and acting and so afraid are we of food products as Nature prepares them, that it is becoming more and more the practice to feed infants on artificial food substances. Indeed it is now the practice of physicians to give mothers formulas for preparing artificial foods at once and not wait to see if they can nurse their babies. Booklets by the manufacturers of prepared baby foods or evaporated milks are supplied every mother when she leaves the hospital. The practice actually discourages breast feeding and causes women to distrust raw, fresh milk. Indeed, there are physicians who tell mothers that the evaporated milks are the only safe milks.

I once sat and listened to a physician explain to a young mother the procedures for preparing milk for the hand-feeding of her two-weeks old boy. He talked of Klim, Eskay's Food and other proprietary foods--dried, and condensed milk. When he was asked about raw whole milk, he thought this might be permissible if one was not near a drug store and could not get the dried and condensed varieties.

Doctors are the victims of the commercial exploiters of baby foods, and patent medicines (proprietary remedies), as often as the public. Only ignorance of nutritive science permits them to "fall" for the claims of the manufacturers of "proprietary foods" for infants. I frequently run across babies that are being fed on pasteurized and even boiled milk, upon the advice of the doctor.

Artificial infant foods are undesirable. Dr. Robert McCarrison of England, says that the "seeds" of diseases that inevitably kill their victims in middle life are often introduced into the body with the first bottle of cow's milk or artificial baby food--and he is not referring to germs, either. Dr. Page condemned the various artificial foods, advertised as "substitutes for mother's milk" and, although, "many infants manage to subsist on them, and in many cases thrive on them," he did not consider that such foods are good.

Some years ago Dr. Fischer, in his Infant Feeding, gave analyses of some of the powdered milks and infant foods then on the market. "Nestle's Food," "Horlick's Malted Milk," and "Milkine," were shown to be far inferior to mother's milk as food for infants.

Dr. Tilden says: "There are many brands of artificial foods on the market, and there are tons of these foods used in this country every year, but so far as being of real benefit is concerned, it is doubtful if they are beneficial when it comes to supplying a need that can't be supplied by something of greater food value.

"I do not say this from lack of experience, for I have had years of experience. I once believed that most of the better brands were really of great use, but I discovered after a thoughtful retrospection that I have gradually and unwittingly abandoned the use of all of these foods, and it has come about not because I love them less, but because I love natural foods more, and, of course, secure better results with them."

McCarrison says: "I would ask you to consider * * * the increasing tendency in modern times to rear infants artificially--on boiled, and dried milks, on proprietary foods which are all of them vastly inferior to healthy mother's milk in substances essential to the well being of the child--inferior not only in vitamins, but also in enzymes, thyroid derivatives and other essentials."

Mendel says:: "In the preparation of some of the present-day proprietary infant's foods--products so numerous and presented with such conflicting claims that the physician and mother alike are bewildered as to choice--there is considerable 'juggling' with facts in novel ways. Novelty should not be a bar to recognition; but are we on safe ground in the ready acceptance of the newest commercial tendencies?"

In U. S. Dept. of Labor Bulletin No. 8, Care of Children series, are these words about artificial baby foods: "The general concensus of opinion among authorities seems to be that one or another of these baby foods may be temporarily used if fresh cow's milk is not available, as in traveling or in the tropics, but their continued and exclusive use is to be condemned. All are expensive and many of them do not give the baby the required food elements, nor the proper proportion of these elements, while the use of some of them is known to be followed by various forms of illness."

Scurvy, rickets, anaemia and malnutrition are often the results of the use of artificial foods. Many children seem to thrive on them for a while, may actually appear to do better than those fed on their mother's milk, and then disaster overtakes them. Be not deceived by the advertisements of those who have infant foods to sell. These concerns exist for profit and not for baby's welfare.

Condensed milk, evaporated milk, dried milk and other artificial foods are unfit for the baby and no intelligent mother will ever feed these to her child.