460 REPOET OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



likewise helped by the dissemination of knowledge concerning food 

 materials and their preparation, for such knowledge means a greater 

 development of the important commercial enterprises in which they 

 are interested. The farmer, the cattle raiser, the dairyman, the 

 market gardener, and all who are direct producers of food supplies 

 are benefited, as a knowledge of the important facts regarding the 

 comparative value of different foods can not fail to bring about im- 

 proved standards of living, and hence a greater demand for the food- 

 stuffs which they alone can supply. 



And, finally, quite largely as a result of the nutrition enterprise, 

 the investigator has at his disposal well-defined methods of study 

 which have been carefully tested, while the student and teacher find 

 ready for their use a large amount of material, both popular and 

 technical, which has been accumulated and made accessible by a care- 

 fully considered system of publication and distribution. 



