Mary Lincoln Extra Credit Questions

[AussieMick]

Well yes Eva a cow's milk would have been a possibility, but hardly the best especially in those days.

Actually your comment reminded me of a related fact. I do have a (very little) farming background and did think of instances where a calf (or whatever) is 'fostered' with another 'mother' of the same species whose calf had died. I think some farmers would use the afterbirth of the calf that died (yuck) to cover the live new-born (which might have lost its own mother or it may have been shunned by her or she may have had a multiple birth or .... ) and present it to the 'mother' .