8 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
Report of the Director 
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The principal lines of inquiry prosecuted during the past year 
may be concisely stated as follows: 
1. Meteorological observations, 
2. Field experiments with fertilizers. 
Experiments on the growth of forage plants. 
Feeding experiments with sheep. 
Digestion experiments with sheep. 
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Studies of rations fed to milch cows on dairy farms in 
Connecticut. 
7. Studies of bacteria and their action in the ripening of 
cream. 
8. Analyses of feeding stuffs. 
g. Investigations of materials used for the food of man. 
Analyses of foods exhibited at the World's Fair. 
1o. Investigations of dietaries. 
11. Experiments with the bomb calorimeter. 
12. Development of a respiration calorimeter. 
The larger part of the work done during the year is in contin- 
uation of that described in previous reports of the Station. The 
digestion experiments with sheep; the studies of the feeding 
practice of Connecticut dairymen; the investigations of foods 
undertaken at the World’s Fair in behalf of the Columbian 
Commission; and the work with the bomb and respiration calor- - 
imeters represent new inquiries. The new work, like much of. 
that previously begun, has to do chiefly with the chemistry of 
nutrition. - 
For an institution with an annual income of only $7,500 per 
year, which is the whole amount received by the Storrs Station 

