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STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



DETAILS OF DIGESTION EXPERIMENT NO. 1 54. 



This experiment, a part of metabolism experiment No. 29, 

 began with breakfast March 16, 1900, and continued three 

 days. The diet contained an excess of carbohydrates. The 

 subject, J. F. S., weighed in underclothes at the beginning of 

 the experiment 63.8 kilos and at the end 64.1 kilos. During 

 the experiment the subject was engaged eight hours a day in 

 work upon the stationary bicycle. 



Table io6. 

 Digestion experiment No. i^^. 



During this experiment the subject eliminated 2362.9 grams 

 urine, containing 47.3 grams nitrogen. The average nitrogen 

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

 16.0 grams; outgo in urine and perspiration, 16.0 grams, and 

 in feces, .8 gram; implying a loss of .8 gram nitrogen, corre- 

 sponding to 5.0 grams protein. 



