Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations, June 30, 1905 Page: 23
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NUTRITION INVESTIGATIONS. 23
with native coffees and in improving methods of culture have been
highly successful. Some attention is now being directed to arousing
an interest in improved breeds of cattle and to starting experimental
work with domestic animals. The experiment station farm has been
greatly improved and an adjoining tract of about 7 acres, formerly
the Agronomic Station under Spanish rule, has been turned over to
the station for its use.
NUTRITION INVESTIGATIONS.
* The chief object of the investigations on the nutrition of man,
which have been carried on during the past year under the auspices
of this Office upon much the same general lines as heretofore, is to
learn the nutritive value of agricultural food products of animal and
vegetable origin and the proportions in which food materials of different
kinds may be most intelligently used to the advantage of both
producer and consumer. Such work involves a study of digestibility,
effects of cooking on composition and related matter, as well as of
the fundamental laws of nutrition and the practical application of
these laws to the health and well-being of man. Particular attention
is given in this work to the physiology, hygiene, pedagogics,
and economics of nutrition, with special reference to improving the
diet of people of different age and sex living under varied conditions
of work, climate, and surroundings.
Attention has been paid during the past year particularly to dietary
studies, cooking experiments, digestion experiments, and experiments
with the respiration calorimeter. Some pedagogical work has
also been undertaken with special reference to formulating consistent
courses in nutrition from available data. In addition to the
experimental work a large amount of editorial work has been required
for the calculation of the results of the experiments, for the
preparation of experimental data for publication in technical and in
popular form, and in other ways.
The method of cooperation by which the work of investigation has
been distributed among various educational, scientific, and similar
institutions throughout the country has, as heretofore, given most
excellent results, and a large amount of investigation has been carried
on. In a considerable measure this has been made possible by the
generous support of the cooperating institutions. These have contributed
in some cases money, and in practically all cases the use of
laboratories, apparatus, and libraries, the advice and counsel of
skilled experts, and similar assistance, so that the Department funds
available for nutrition work have been much extended. Had funds
permitted, it would have been possible to extend considerably the cooperative
investigations, as other institutions have expressed a readiness
to join in such enterprises provided a comparatively small
amount could be allotted to them.
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