Word: milked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cows and other domestic animals**** whose milk is wanted, milk production is maintained for an inordinately long period by artificial
Composition. Milk is composed of tiny globules of fat suspended as an emulsion with casien and other proteids, lactose ("sugar of milk"), and inorganic salts. A different combination of these develops in different animals. A slighter difference occurs between the milks of two animals of the same species. Therefore a woman's milk is best for her own child, another woman's next best...
Dried Human Milk. Not always is fresh human milk available. So Dr. P. W. Emerson of Boston (reporting in the American Journal of Diseases of Children) has worked out a method of drying human milk. The process is similar to that used in desiccating cow's milk for canning. This dried human milk has been acceptable to a small number of babies as food, not the most preferable food, yet sustaining to life. In some cases this milk had to be fortified with sugar. Then the infants gained rapidly. Later they were able to go on a diet...
...Pasteurized cow's milk costs from 10¢ to 15¢ a quart in most U. S. cities...
...Laplanders keep reindeer for milk: roving Tartars mares; Bedouins camels; pastoral tribes sheep; mountain tribes goats; tropical ones buffaloes. Asses' milk is highly esteemed far and wide. Each type of milk has its peculiar flavor, sometimes nauseating to the uninitiated. In the wild state, these animals, and the cow also, cease their milk flow after weaning their young. Farmers know that a calf weaned late is unusually frisky...