igS STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



DETAILS OF DIGESTION EXPERIMENT NO. 84. 



This experiment, a part of metabolism experiment No. 23, 

 began with breakfast March 16, 1899, and continued three 

 days. The subject, E. O., weighed without clothes 72.9 kilos 

 at the beginning and 72.7 kilos at the end. During the ex- 

 periment he had as little muscular activity as possible. 



Table 98. 

 Digestion experiment No. 84. 



During this experiment the subject eliminated 6575.3 grams 

 urine, containing 56.9 grams nitrogen. The average nitrogen 

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

 19.8 grams; outgo in urine, 19.0 grams, and in feces, i.i 

 grams; implying a loss of .3 gram nitrogen, corresponding to 

 1.6 grams protein. 



