198 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
other times had eaten as large amounts without the least dis- 
comfort. Furthermore, in these experiments the quantity eaten 
was not fixed, but varied with the desires of the subjects at the 
different meals. Possibly the unpleasant conditions might not 
have occurred if smaller quantities of the cereal had been eaten. 
It will be observed, however, that the total quantity of protein 
per day in the diet was only about 80-86 gramis, even including 
considerable amounts of milk and cream. Indeed, the relatively 
large quantities of milk consumed were mainly for the purpose 
of increasing the quantity of protein in the diet, since it was 
impossible for any of the subjects to eat enough of the cereal to 
accomplish this. It may be remarked that A. B. A., who was 
most affected by the diet and had to give up the experiment on 
the third day, ate less of the cereal than either of the others. 
EXPERIMENTS WITH MALTA VITA. 
Experiments with this cereal began with breakfast July 2, 
1903, with four subjects, two of whom were in the preceding 
experiments with Grape-Nuts. With three of the subjects the 
experiments continued four days with twelve meals, and one of 
these, H. C. S., had been on the same diet two days before the 
experiment began. ‘The fourth subject continued on the diet 
three days with eight meals, but since he wished to be absent 
at the time of supper on the third day, he ate for dinner sufh- 
cient to make the total diet for the day equivalent to that for 
the preceding days. H. C. S. and E. O. each ate 100 grams of © 
the cereal at each meal, as did also R. D. M.; except at the 
first meal, which was 105 grams; the quantities eaten by J. A. R. 
were not uniform, varying from 90 to 125 grams at the different 
meals, and 200 grams with dinner on the third day. The 
quantity of milk in the diet of R. D. M. was exactly the same, 
to within .2 gram, and that of cream to .8 gram, from meal to 
meal, throughout the experiment. In addition to his regular 
diet, H. C. S. had one cup (about one-half pint) of coffee 
decoction each day, but as this contains no appreciable quantity 
of nutrients, it is not taken into account. 




