16 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
was made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, to promote 
especial inquiry into the food economy of the people of the 
United States. The appropriation has been increased in the 
succeeding years to $15,000. ‘The general government has 
thus formally recognized the important fact that the food of 
the people of this country for which wage workers spend half 
their income and upon which our health and capacity for work 
so intimately depend, is as proper a subject for experimental 
study as the food of the farmers’ crops and cattle. 
The responsibility for the expenditure of the Government 
appropriation referred to is given by Congress to the Secretary 
of Agriculture, who has assigned the inquiry to the Office of 
Experiment Stations. The conditions of the Act of Congress 
are such as to favor cooperation between the Department and 
other institutions of research, especially the experiment stations 
in different parts of the country. Accordingly, while a part of 
the work is done under the immediate direction of the Depart- 
ment, a considerable portion is being carried out in cooperation 
with experiment stations, colleges, and other organizations, 
including the Storrs Station, to whose Director the immediate 
charge of the enterprise is entrusted. 
At present all of the food investigations of the Station are 
being conducted in cooperation with the general government, 
by which a considerable share of the expense is paid. By such 
cooperation a much larger amount of research is being carried 
on by the Station than the State appropriation provides for, 
and, at the same time, the contribution by this State to the 
enterprise is made much more fully available to the country at 
large. ‘There is a like cooperation in the publication of the 
results of the inquiry. In this way the practical results of 
the work of the Station are made available to the citizens of the 
State, through the Station Reports and Bulletins, while much 
of the more technical details which are of decided scientific 
importance, but of less special interest to farmers and the 
public at large, are published by the general government. 
W. O. ATWATER, 
Director. 
