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December 17. 



Cost, 

 Breakfast: cents. 



Cracked wheat and milk ( with 3 to 4 tea.spoonfulR sugar) 5 



Two biscuits 2 



Pat of butter 1 



Total 8 



Dinner: 



Boiled hominy and milk ( with 3 to 4 teaspoonfuls sugar) 5 



Four slices bread 2 



Pat of butter 1 



Total 8 



Supper: 



Bowl of milk (about 12 fluid ounces) 4 



Two rolls (48 grams each ) 2 



Total 6 



Total cost for the day 22 



Subject I apparently found that he did not get enough to eat in this 

 manner for 22 cents a day, and accordingly we lind him spending more 

 at the time covered by the second and third periods. On an average 

 his daily ration then cost about 32 cents and furnished 73.9 grams of 

 digestible protein and 2,857 calories of available energy. During these 

 periods animal foods furnished 43.5 per cent of the total protein and 

 26 per cent of the total energy noted, a ratio which was not materially 

 different from that shown in the dietaries of several of the other sub- 

 jects. The diet, as in many other cases, could have been improved as 

 regards economy by spending less on desserts and Ijeverages and more 

 on some other foods. As the tables stand, the ration for i^eriods 2 and 

 8 furnishes more than the average amounts of nutrients for 1 cent, as 

 compared with the other studies, and this is due largely to the fact that 

 the ration was simple as regards the classes of foods selected. It is 

 further true that Subject I chose to eat only a few simple foods of each 

 class rather than a considerable variety, and this explains the fact 

 that in every important food class he obtained for 1 cent amounts of 

 nutrients never below and often a little above the corresponding aver- 

 aofe amounts for the ten men. 



At the end of the investigation he weighed 127 pounds, having made 

 the surprising gain of 16.8 pounds during the experimental period, and 

 his anthropometric measurements, as might be expected, also show a 

 marked increase. No change, except an increase in adipose tissue, 

 etc., was found in his physical condition and general health, but it 

 seems certain that there was no deterioration. He passed the final 



