EXPERIMENT STATION WORK ON FOOD AND NUTRITION. 227 



origin is derived from tlie investigations of these bodies made at the 

 Connecticut State Station." 



Some important information relating to nutrition has been ob- 

 tained in connection with the experiments conducted by different sta- 

 tions in the study of other subjects. For example, investigations of 

 various problems of interest to the cheese industry conducted by the 

 New York State'' and AVisconsin '^ stations have furnished valuable 

 contributions to our chemical knowledge of these iuiportant food 

 products, while facts of decided iuiportance in the study of the pro- 

 cesses of gastric digestion have also been accuuiulated. Again, in 

 studies of the feeding of animals for the production of fat and lean 

 meat at the Wisconsin Station '' important knowledge has been ob- 

 tained regarding the effects of rations with relatively large and rel- 

 atively small protein content upon the developuient of the internal 

 organs, the strength of bone, the quantity of blood, etc., of immature 

 aniuials, which has a very decided bearing upon the j^roblem of the 

 nutrition of man. 



Nuuierous other examples could be given of the w^ays in which 

 experiuient stations have taken part either directly or indirectly in 

 the solution of this problem. Enough has been shown, however, to 

 indicate that when the facts are brought together they form a contri- 

 bution which in the aggregate is large, and that the knowledge thus 

 obtained is of decided value. 



PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD. 



A very nnich larger part of the work of the stations relating to the 

 food of man, however, has to do with afiother side of the subject, 

 nauiely, the jn-oduction and distribution of food, the extent and 

 importance of which is less generally considered. No treatment of 

 the subject of nutrition, especially from an economic standpoint, 

 would be sufficiently comprehensive without taking this into account. 

 It is the purpose of the present article to consider briefly the signifi- 

 cance of some of the experiment station work of this character. A 

 couiplete summary of all lines 6f such work is not attempted; only a 

 few of the more salient features are mentioned by way of illustration, 

 but other investigations just as valual)le as any here considered might 

 also be cited. Furthermore, not all of the eciuallv valuable results bv 

 different stations in any line of work here considered have been 

 included in the discussion. The more prominent results to which ref- 



<i ronnecttrnt State Sta. Rpts. for difToront years. 

 ''.New York Statr Sta. Ituls. 214, *_'.S:{. i::{il. and otliors. 

 c Wisconsin Sta. Upt. l!Xi.'i ami other years, 

 d Wiscousiu Sta. Upt. 19U1. 



