184 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
DIGESTION EXPERIMENT NO. 8.° 
kinds of food: Milk, oatmeal, and sugar. Swudject: Infant, 
10 months old; same child as No. 7; weight, without cloth- 
ing, 24.56 lbs. (11.14 kilos), at the beginning, and 25.60 lbs. 
(11.61 kilos), at the end of the experiment. The study began 
with the first meal eaten March 5, 1895, and continued 9 days, 
ending with the last meal eaten March 13. Six meals a day 
were usually taken. The feces were collected from the morn- 
ing of March 6 to the morning of March 15 (9 days). 
TABLE 56. 
meee and fuel values of nutrients in food eaten and in feces 
for 9 days, and weights, fuel values, and per- 
centages of nutrients digested. 
























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Foop MaTERIALS, "bo © 2 Sp 8 3 og ir Ge 
SPE etn pes esis hoe 
Se S ae 
Grams. | Grams. | Grams. | Grams. | Grams. Grams. }. Cal. 
Milk (cow’s), - - - | 10120 | 1319 399 452 468 78 8865 
Oatmeal, - - = 4, 27224 109 24 5 80 9 505 
ear ey - - - 100 100 — — 100 — 400 
Total, - - - = | 12042107628 42374 454 648 ey Pint, (e27)8: 
Feces, 2. ¢., uridigested 
residue, - - - 107 68 20 fi 41 34 530 . 
Amount digested, - - — 1460 403 450 607 53 9240 
Fuel value of urea,* - — —- ~— — a — 350 
Net fuel value food digested,) — — — — — — | 8890 
i % \+ % % to % to 
Percent. digested, - - — 95. 6"1-05..3 1 98.41 93,7 4 60.6 gI.0 

* Digested protein multiplied by .87. See explanations p. 178. 
Nutrients and energy in daily food.—There are comparatively 
few statistics as to the amounts of nutrients and energy required 
by a child under two years of age, as compared with an older 
child or an adult. The following table gives the results of 
several dietary studies of very young children. Nos. 1 to 5 
are German. No. 6 is the average of the two described above.* 
It will be noticed that there is no uniformity in the results. 
The child seven weeks old ate more than one of the children 
fourteen months of age. 

* Published as dietary studies in the Report of this Station for 1895, P. 132. 

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