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STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



DETAILS OF DIGESTION EXPERIMENT NO. 1 95. 

 This experiment, which was preHminary to metaboHsm ex- 

 periment No. 40, began with breakfast February 22, 1901, and 

 continued four days. The diet contained an excess of carbo- 

 hydrates. The weight of the subject, J. C. W., was not taken 

 at the beginning of the experiment but at the end was in 

 underclothes 79.5 kilos. During the experiment he took a 

 regular amount of muscular exercise each day. 



Table ii6. 

 Digestion experiment No. ig^. 



* Deviled ham used only in two meals, morning and noon of first day. Composition 

 asslimed from U. S. Dept. Agr. Office of Experiment Stations, Bui. 28. 



During this experiment the subject eliminated 3726.6 grams 

 urine, containing 62.1 grams nitrogen. The average nitrogen 

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

 16.9 grams; outgo in urine, 15.5 grams, and in feces, 2.2 

 grams; implying a loss of .8 gram nitrogen, corresponding to 

 5.0 grams protein. 



