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STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



the results of fourteen other experiments made in connection 

 with metaboHsm experiments for another purpose, but also giv- 

 ing valuable information regarding the availability of food in 

 mixed diet, have been published elsewhere. ^'^ 



DETAILS OF DIGESTION EXPERIMENT NO. 37. 



This experiment, which represents the preliminary period of 

 metabolism experiment No. 5, began with breakfast April 26, 

 1897, and continued eight days, with 24 meals. The subject, 

 E. O., weighed with clothes, 69.3 kilos at the beginning and at 

 the end of the experiment. During the experimental period 

 he was engaged in his usual duties as laboratory assistant, which 

 were not arduous. 



Table 84. 



Digestion experiment No. jy. 



During this experiment the subject eliminated 864S.0 grams 

 urine, containing 142.6 grams nitrogen. The average nitrogen 

 balance per day was therefore as follows: Income in food, 



* Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume VIII., Sixth Memoir, 1902. 



