188 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
a repository of nutriment which is being constantly drawn upon, 
and as constantly resupplied. It is not dependent any day 
upon the food eaten that particular day. Hence an excess one 
day may be made up by a deficiency the next, or wice versa. 
Healthful nourishment requires simply that the nutrients as a 
whole during longer or shorter periods should be fitted to the 
actual needs of the body for use. 
NoTE.—As an illustration of the statement made on page 177 above, that the 
cost of any given dietary will vary widely with circumstances, the following 
instance may be cited. It is taken from a letter which came to hand as the 
proof of this article was being corrected. The writer resides in the State of 
New York, and apparently is a farmer, or at least obtains his food materials at 
rates which would represent the cost to the farmer, who produces most of them 
on his farm. He represents himself as engaged in active muscular work, 
‘‘ being frequently on the move from four o'clock in the morning until nine at 
night.” He gives the following figures for the kinds, amounts, and cost of 
food used by himself in one week: . 
Skim milk, 20 quarts; buttermilk, 114 pints; cream, 2% pints; butter, 1% 
ounces: oatmeal, 2 pounds ro ounces; corn meal, 2 pounds 15 ounces; entire 
wheat flour, 2 pounds 3 ounces; sugar, 634 ounces; apples, 2 pounds 12% 
ounces; raisins, g!%4 ounces. These quantities of the different food materials 
shouid furnish not far from 163 grams of protein, 65 grams of fat, and 583 
grams of carbohydrates, with a fuel value of 3665 calories per man per day. 
The cost of the different materials at the price actually paid was not quite so 
cents for the week, or 7 cents per day. Using the average prices given in table 
43, on pages 174, 175, the cost would have been about $1.25, or 18 cents per 
day. 

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