Report of the Director 
FOR THE YEAR 18094. 
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The principal lines of inquiry prosecuted during the past year 
may be concisely stated as follows: 
1. Meteorological observations. 
Field experiments with fertilizers. 
Experiments on the growth of forage plants. 
Feeding experiments with sheep. 
Digestion experiments with sheep. 
Studies of rations fed to milch cows on dairy farms in 
Connecticut. 
7. Studies of bacteria and their action in the ripening of 
cream. 
Analyses of feeding stuffs. 
Analyses of materials used for the food of man. 
1o. Investigations of dietaries. 
11. Experiments with the bomb calorimeter. 
12. Development of a respiration calorimeter. 
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The larger part of the work done during the year is in con- 
tinuation of that described in previous reports of the Station. 
For an institution with an annual income of only $7,500 per 
year, which is the amount received by the Storrs Station from 
public sources, so wide a range of subjects of investigation 
might seem inexcusable. The justification is found in two facts. 
One is that several lines of investigation upon the food and 
nutrition of animals and man are more or less nearly parallel 
with each other and are so conducted as to form really one 
department of inquiry. The other is that a considerable part of 
the work is done with the codperation and aid of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, the United States Department 
of Labor, and Wesleyan University. | 
W. O. ATWATER, 
Director. 

