442 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



a large correspondence growing out of nutrition investigations, and 

 the distribution of publications on this subject. This work is in charge 

 of Dr. C. F. Lang worthy. The following publications have been pre- 

 pared in this Office by Dr. Langworthy : Farmers' Bulletin No. 74, Milk 

 as Food; No. 85, Fish as Food; No. 128, Eggs and their uses as Food; and 

 No. 58, Appendix, Soy Beans as Food for Man; Circular No. 43, Food 

 Nutrients — Food Economy; Circular No. 46, The Function and uses of 

 Food; and Yearbook articles entitled Food for Man and The Value of 

 Potatoes as Food. The series of farmers' bulletins entitled Experiment 

 Station Work have contained many articles on food and nutrition 

 which has summarized the investigations on this subject conducted 

 by different experiment stations. In the Experiment Station Record 

 the results of current investigations on food and nutrition conducted 

 in this and other countries are summarized. The following publica- 

 tions, prepared b}^ different authors, have been issued by this Office, 

 which have been for the most part based on nutrition investigations 

 in this country and abroad: Farmers' Bulletin No. 93, Sugar as Food, 

 by Mary Hinman Abel; Farmers' Bulletin No. 112, Bread and the Prin- 

 ciples of Bread Making, by Helen W. Atwater; Farmers' Bulletin No. 

 121, Beans, Peas, and Other Legumes as Foods, by Mary Hinman 

 Abel; and Office of Experiment Stations Bulletin No. 56, History and 

 Present Status of Instruction in Cooking in the Public Schools of 

 New York City, by Mrs. Louise E. Hogan, with an introduction by 

 A. C. True; Yearbook, 1899, Development of Nutrition Investigations 

 of the Department of Agriculture, by A. C. True and R. D. Milner. 



WORK OF THE MIDDLETOWN OFFICE. 



The work of the office of the special agent in charge of the nutrition 

 investigations at Middletown, Conn., has included the planning and 

 direct supervision of these investigations in different parts of the coun- 

 try, the conducting of special investigations with the respiration calor- 

 imeter and bomb calorimeter, the compilation of the results of nutri- 

 tion investigations in this country and abroad, and a large correspond- 

 ence relating to these investigations. The special investigations car- 

 ried on here in cooperation with Wesley an University and the Storrs 

 Experiment Station are briefly described on page 445. 



INVESTIGATIONS IN DIFFERENT STATES. 



The nutrition investigations conducted in cooperation with colleges, 

 experiment stations, and other agencies in the different States are 

 briefly described in the following pages: 



ALABAMA. 



Investigations in this State were carried on during the spring of 

 1895 and the winter of 1895-96 at the Normal and Agricultural Insti- 



