For 4, or even 6 weeks, the milk of one cow is sufficient,indeed half that quantity is enough for the first fortnight; but after the 5th or 6th week it will consume the greater portion of the milk of two moderate cows; but then it requires neither oil-cake nor linseed, nor any other food.

The condensed milk was the one biggest factor in the civilizing of Muskwa.

Cow's milk is usually slightly acid, while human milk is alkaline.

" "Thet air's an argymunt I can't endorse, 'T would prove, coz you wear spurs, you kep' a horse: For brains," sez I, "wutever you may think, Ain't boun' to cash the draft o' pen-an'-ink, Though mos' folks write ez ef they hoped jes' quickenin' The churn would argoo skim-milk into thickenin'; But skim-milk ain't a thing to change its view O' usefleness, no more 'n a smoky flue.

Milk is a good business.

MILK DIET.An almost exclusive milk diet is sometimes a great advantage in cases of sickness.

ACCORDING TO THE DESIGN AND END OF NATURE, mammiferous animals are calculated, when arrived at maturity, to subsist on various kinds of food,some to live wholly upon flesh, others upon grain, herbs, or fruits; but in their infant state, milk is the appropriate food of the whole.

Milk and butter were the first things to go, and fresh vegetables followed soon after.

Milk is, in fact, a nutrient and a sedative at once.

In another place, he says, "Milk is an appropriate nourishment at all ages, and is more so the nearer to birth.

a conical tin cup closely over a glass of milk and shake it vigorously until all of a foam, after which it should be slowly sipped at once; or a glass of milk may be put into a quart fruit can, the cover tightly screwed on, and then shaken back and forth until the milk is foamy.

5. 'Barnyard milk' is a term used to designate milk taken from unclean animals, or those which have been kept in filthy, unventilated stables.

The mode of feeding them is very simple; milk is the chief article of their diet, and of this the calves require a sufficient supply from first to last.

But what proved far more of a treat than the new milk was the trouble of procuring it, for the cow proved a very spiteful one, and knocked the unfortunate milker, with his pail, "heels-over-head."

Although milk in its natural state be a fluid, yet, considered as an aliment, it is both solid and fluid: for no sooner does it enter the stomach, than it is coagulated by the gastric juice, and separated into curd and whey, the first of these being extremely nutritive.

Cows are kept in nearly all the Kamchadal settlements, and milk is always plenty.

Condensed milk was 50 cents per can.

If fresh milk is not available, the condensed milk found at the grocer's is an excellent substitute.

The evident conclusion from this is, that the breast-milk of a healthy woman is incomparably the most suitable diet for the infant; but that, if she be not of a healthy constitution, it may be destructive to the child; and that where this cannot be obtained, and cow's milk is found to disagree, ass's milk may sometimes be resorted to with the happiest results.[FN#8]

To be told that the baby is dying not because the Lord is angry with the family but because the milk is impure may seem little better than impiety at first, but save the baby by proper care and you have gone a long way to proving that pure milk is God's law and that all the prayers in the world will not change His ruling.

"This milk is just the richest and best that ever came on board a vessel!" exclaimed the mate, as he was about to wind up his own share of the repast with a cup of coffee"and as for butter, I can say I never tasted the article before.

The milk of seven streakit cows It was her cost to kepe, They brought her dayly, whyche she drank Before she wente to slepe.

Milk of the human subject is much thinner than cow's milk; Ass's milk comes the nearest to human milk of any other; Goat's milk is something thicker and richer than cow's milk; Ewe's milk has the appearance of cow's milk, and affords a larger quantity of cream; Mare's milk contains more sugar than that of the ewe; Camel's milk is used only in Africa; Buffalo's milk is employed in India.

Some idea of the expense may be supposed, when I tell you that in one article alone, milk, his allowance is two gallons per day.

" Breton, in his "Fantasticks," 1626, observes: "Milk, Butter and Cheese are the labourers dyet; and a pot of good Beer quickens his spirits.