From this table it will be seen that upon an average, at 
.above prices, a certain number of pounds of albumen, fiber, ¢ 
bohydrates and fats, of which the number of pounds of ea 
given are digestible, may be bought for one dollar. fis 
German id English authorities have, as an average, assign 
the following prices for the several constituents, viz. : : Albuminoid 
and fats 3,68 cents, and carbohydrates .75 cents per powsiee valuing 
the albuminoids and fats as approximately worth five times as 
much per pound as the carbohydrates ; but it will be seen that oe 
these prices are too high if applied to the total amount of food 
constituents present, and too low if applied to the ach 
quantities of each. 
Professor Wulff of the Indiana Experiment Station gives, as the 
value of the digestible constituents, the following prices, viz: 
Three and one-third cents per pound for the albauaaie and fats, 
and nine-tenths of a cent for the carbohydrates. At these prices” 
the average value would amount to ninety-two and one-fourth 
cents instead of one dollar, but as these prices were given two 
years ago, February, 1889, they should be increased about ten per 
cent, and that would bring his valuation to but one and one-half 
per cent above the actual cost of these products. 
Dr. Jenkins, of the Connecticut Experiment Station, places a 
much higher valuation relatively upon the fats, and gave two years 
ago, January, 1889, the following prices upon the total amount of 
these constituents present in the several foods, viz.: Albuminoids, 
one and six-tenths cents; fats, four and two-tenths cents ; carbgy - 
Dr. Jenkins, the ate would be 101.9 cents, or less than two pa 
cent in the excess of the actual cost. 
one-half times the service of the carbohydrates, that, in dels 
minations of nutritive value they should be counted at two an 
one-half times the value of an equal weight of carbohydrates, 
there would appear, therefore, reason to estimate their comme 
