five ounces instead of six or eight, and add so much more gruel.  Barley gruel is better than oatmeal gruel unless baby is constipated.  Again if the baby has delicate digestive organs, one meal each day during the very hot weather, can be made of mutton broth prepared as follows:  Cut up one pound of neck of mutton, one pint of cold water and a pinch of salt; this is cooked very slowly for three hours until half a pint is left, adding a little water from time to time as it boils away; strain through muslin and allow to cool, and when cool take off all of the fat.  Add this to an equal quantity of barley water and feed lukewarm to the baby from the nursing bottle.  These measures may ward off summer complaint and assist in teething.

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Formula for the seventh month.—­From a quart of pure milk carefully skim off the top six ounces, pour off fifteen ounces of the milk and add twenty-one ounces of barley or oatmeal gruel to which has been added dissolved four teaspoonfuls of granulated or seven of milk sugar, a pinch of bicarbonate of soda.  Give six or seven ounces at each meal and six meals in twenty-four hours.

Formula for the eighth month.—­Skim six ounces of top-milk as before directed, pour off seventeen ounces of milk, add twenty-one ounces of barley or oatmeal gruel, four of granulated or seven teaspoonfuls of milk sugar, a pinch of salt and bicarbonate of soda.  Give six and one-half to seven ounces every three hours up to 10 p. m.

Formula for the ninth month.—­Use six ounces of top-milk skimmed off as before, twenty ounces of milk poured off, twenty-two ounces of either barley or oatmeal gruel, a pinch of bicarbonate of soda and salt added to the gruel, and five teaspoonfuls of granulated or eight of milk sugar dissolved in boiled water and put in the gruel.  Give seven or eight ounces of this every three hours up to 10 p. m.

Formula for tenth month.—­The milk in a quart bottle is stirred and thirty ounces of this is taken and twenty ounces of either barley or oatmeal gruel is added to it, to which three teaspoonfuls of granulated or seven of milk sugar, a pinch of salt and a pinch of bicarbonate of soda have been added.  Feed the child every three and a half hours up to 10 p. m., making five meals in twenty-four hours, and seven to eight ounces at each meal.

Formula for eleventh month.—­Stir up the entire quart of milk, add thirteen ounces barley or oatmeal gruel and to this add one tablespoonful of granulated or two of milk sugar dissolved in boiled water, a pinch of salt and a pinch of bicarbonate of soda.  Treat as used; eight or nine ounces are given at each feeding, and five feedings given during the twenty-four hours.