Formula for twelfth month.—­Stir up the entire quart of milk; add eleven ounces of gruel, one tablespoonful of granulated or two of milk sugar, a pinch of salt and bicarbonate of soda.  The child should now have five regular meals daily, arranged about as follows:  Six a. m., nine ounces of this modified milk; 8 a. m., teaspoonful of prune jelly or strained juice of an orange; 10 a. m., seven ounces of the modified milk and two tablespoonfuls of a well cooked cereal; 2 p. m., five ounces of beef juice or six ounces of mutton or chicken broth, or else a coddled egg (alternate on different days), five or six ounces of modified milk and a small piece of zwieback; 6 p. m., nine ounces of modified milk; 10 p. m., ten ounces of modified milk.

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BARLEY AND OATMEAL GRUELS.

How is barley gruel made?  Rub up one teaspoonful of the flour with a little cold water, and then stir this into a pint of boiling water, add a pinch of salt and boil it fifteen minutes, strain if it is at all lumpy.

How is oatmeal gruel made?  In the same way, but use two teaspoonfuls of the flour.

SPECIAL RULES OF FEEDING AND NURSING FOR EACH MONTH IN CONNECTION WITH THE FORMULA GIVEN.

How can milk be pasteurized?  A regular pasteurizer can be bought for three dollars; or the bottles, ten or less, can be placed in a pot partly filled with water which is rapidly brought to the boiling point about 155 degrees F. These bottles are filled with each regular feeding before being put in the water.  The milk should not boil.  Then remove the pot from the fire and allow the bottles to stand in it for one-half hour, then take them out and cool them as quickly as possible by allowing first warm and then cold water to run over the outside of the bottles; when they are cold, place them on ice or where the temperature is about 50 degrees F., and keep them until meal-time.  Then one of the bottles is placed in warm water until the milk is lukewarm, the cork can then be removed and the nipple applied.  These ten bottles were equally filled with the modified milk as prepared under the formula for the first month.

How much modified milk should be placed in each bottle?  For the first week of life one to two and one-half ounces are placed in each of the ten bottles, and two or three and one-half ounces for the last two weeks of the first month.

What should be done if the baby vomits or has curds in his stools?  Use a little less cream and a little more water.  Remember, two tablespoonfuls equal one ounce.

What kind of bottles should be used?  Round cylindrical bottles with the ounces marked on them.

What color of nipples?  Black rubber nipples.

How should the bottle be treated when emptied?  Rinse it out with cold water and then allow it to stand full of cold water with a pinch of soda or borax in it.