HOW TO REAR PET LAMBS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12195, 21 July 1925, Page 3

HOW TO REAR PET LAMBS

A PASTORAL PARABLE. It is often -said that there is only one right way of doing things, though there may be man/ wrong ones. It is -a wild generalisation, but it does apply quite definitely in some matters. For instance, it applies to the rearing of young lambs. With the best of intentions, a sheepfarmer or his kindhearted daughter migljt take,an orphaned lamb and, having installed it in a nice warm nursery, feed it whenever fancy dictated with an attractive soup made of finely minced clover, oatmeal, and meat extract. The lamb would not live long. It happens that the 1 average lamb is sturdy enough to thtive on cow’s milk, but tnat is about as .far from the ngfyt way, nature’s way, as one oan safely go. Yet any number of babies are fed with mixtures of the clover, oatmeal and meat extract variety. They have not sense enough to Jcuuw that such food is poison; in fact theyeven relish tea or stout, once the deadly drug (as it is to them) becomes part of the routine. The triumph of the Plunket system over infantile mortality is a most simple thing; it consists only in teaching the mothers of the country that babies lives are safe when they are fed properly and at proper -times; and this Is a lesson that mothers are always delighted to Jearn. Karitane hospitals are institutions vhich exist to correct the damage that has been done by injudicious feeding and other errors in the care of infants, and as a natural parallel industry, to produce nurses trained in the preventive work of child-preserva-tion. Wellington is promised a Karitane hospital, and is also promised as the rpsiilt. complete immunity from the loss of life which is due to errors of diet in the very young. The promise is conditional upon the necessary funds being raised. Have you contributed yetP The secretary of the Karitane Hospital Appeal Fund is Mr H. Amos, P.O. box 1261, and the treasurer /is Mr 6. Springhall, box 678.