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“State to provide for an early and considerable expansion of 
‘this work within its borders.’’ ’ 
In accordance with the above recommendation, the follow- 
ing act was passed:* 
AN AcT CONCERNING INVESTIGATION OF Foop Economy. 
Be wt enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly 
convened: ) 
SECTION 1. The sum of eighteen hundred dollars annually is hereby appro- 
priated to the Storrs Agricultural College Experiment Station for the purpose 
of investigating the economy of the food and nutrition of man, and for investi- 
gations of the bacteria of milk, butter, and cheese, and their effect in the dairy, 
and the said sum shall be paid in equal quarterly installments to the treasurer 
of the Storrs Agricultural College Experiment Station, and the comptroller is 
hereby directed to draw his order for the same. 
SEC. 2, This act shall take effect from its passage. 
PURPOSE OF THIS BULLETIN. 
Although the publications of the Station have referred to 
the subject of food economy from time to time, it seems de- 
sirable, now that definite arrangements have been made by 
the State for their prosecution, to explain briefly what has 
been done, and what it is proposed to do, and how the results 
of the inquiry may be learned and put into practical use by 
the people of the State. Such things are slow, at best, in 
making their way to the homes of the people. The general 
subject is new, and the public at large are not familiar with 
it. Some of the popular publications of the Experiment 
Station, and more especially of the United States Department 
of Agriculture, have been prepared for the especial purpose 
of explaining about the chemistry and economy of food and 
setting forth the results of investigations carried on up to the 
present time. One purpose of this Bulletin js to call attention 
to these publications and their contents, and more especially 
to the Farmers’ Bulletin No. 23, on ‘‘ Foods: Nutritive 
Value and Cost,’’ and of an article on ‘‘ Food and Diet,’’ 
which is reprinted from the Yearbook of the Department of 
Agriculture for 1894.7 Another purpose is to acquaint the 
people of the State more fully with what the Station is doing 

* This appropriation is chiefly for food investigations, but it is also intended to aid the 
studies which the Station has been making, with the codperation of Prof. H. W. Conn, of 
Wesleyan University, on the effects of bacteria in the dairy. These are being prosecuted 
along the lines which Prof. Conn has followed with such notably useful results. 
+ See page 128. 
