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REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. If 
The Station has made a number of feeding experiments with 
sheep at Storrs. During the past year it has been so fortunate 
as to have the co-operation of Mr. Charles E. Lyman, of Mid- 
dlefield, who fattens a large number of sheep each year for the 
market. Mr. Lyman has set aside a certain number of lambs 
in his barn for experimental purposes. ‘The food materials 
were weighed and analyzed and the effects upon increase of 
weight were noted. ‘The work thus far done is regarded only 
as a beginning, but the results are already of very decided 
interest and value. This is another instance of the usefulness 
of co-operation between the Station and the farmer in practical 
experimenting. | 
FOOD AND NUTRITION OF MAN. 
The inquiries in this direction include: (a) Analyses of 
foods; (6) Digestion experiments with man; (c) Studies of 
dietaries; (d) Calorimetric experiments. 
A considerable number of analyses of food materials have 
been made in connection with dietary studies. 
Experiments upon the digestibility of different foods by man 
eresmuch needed. A number have been made in European 
and other foreign laboratories. Until lately, however, almost 
none have been undertaken in the United States. Investiga- 
tions of this sort have been begun by the Station in co-opera- 
tion with the Department of Agriculture. The method is very 
similar to that followed in tests of the digestibility of feeding 
stuffs by domestic animals. It consists in weighing and 
analyzing both the food eaten and the undigested residue. 
Studies of dietaries, which the Station has carried on in 
co-operation with the United States Department of Labor for 
some time past, have been continued. The kinds, amounts, 
chemical composition, and costs of the food materials actually 
used in a number of families and boarding-houses have been 
observed. During the past year the School of Sociology, lately 
established in Hartford, has shared in the inquiry, and in a 
most useful way. ‘The accounts of these investigations in 
previous Reports have shown the bad economy, both pecuniary 
and hygienic, which is practiced in the purchase and use of 
foods by a large part of our population, including especially 
people in moderate circumstances and the poor. Lhevextent 
of this bad economy; the fact that it is due largely to ignorance 
