eased to 3 tbs. if
bowels are not loose.

The strained cereal should be given twice daily by the end of the
first year, and the milk should be undiluted at this time unless the
digestion of the infant forbids.

Cooled boiled water should be given several times each day between
feedings. Babies cry from thirst as well as from hunger.

SCHEME 2

FOR FEEDING WELL BABIES

Scheme based on Dr. Richard M. Smith's "The Baby's First Two Years."

A full-term baby will usually take a formula made as follows:

Cream 2 ounces
Skimmed milk 2 ounces
Boiled water 12 ounces
Sugar of milk 6 level tsp.

After 3d day increase cream and milk at the rate of 1 ounce each week,
and sugar 1 tsp. every other day until at one month the baby will be
receiving a formula such as--

Cream 5 ounces
Skimmed milk 5 ounces
Boiled water 22 ounces
Sugar of milk 3-1/2 level tbs.

At two months--

Cream 6 ounces
Skimmed milk 6 ounces
Boiled water 20 ounces
Sugar of milk 4 level tbs.

From this point the formula may be increased by adding 2 ounces of
skimmed milk each month until the baby is eight months old. For each
ounce of milk added, an equal amount of water should be omitted. The
sugar in the formula should be reduced one half tbs. every three
months.

At six months the baby would be taking--

Cream 6 ounces
Skimmed milk 14 ounces
Boiled water 12 ounces
Sugar of milk 3-1/2 level tbs.

At eight months--

Cream 6 ounces
Skimmed milk 18 ounces
Boiled water 8 ounces
Sugar of milk 3 level tbs.

This amount will not be found sufficient in quantity for a
twenty-four-hour mixture for children of this age. Increasing the
amount of the last formula in the same proportion, it will be--

Cream 9 ounces
Skimmed milk 27 ounces
Boiled water 12 ounces
Sugar of milk 4-1/2 level tbs.

At this age the formula usually may be changed so as to be made from
whole milk instead of cream and skimmed milk. The formula may be made
as follows:

Whole milk 36 ounces
Boiled water