The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-19
WHAT A MAN EATS.
A Few of the Necessities That Are
 Needed in Life's Short Span.

From London Tie Bits
 The most modest eater in the world or even the man who complains that he never has an appetite" would probably be appalled, if he could see passing in imposing procession before him all the solids and liquids he will consume in lifetime.
 But let us assume that we have to deal with man who is not ashamed to admit that he enjoys his meals, and let us place before him all the food and fluids that he will require to keep him going for a lifetime of seventy years.
 Such a man will make light of dlsposing of 100 pound loaves every twelve months, so that we must provide him with 1000 substantial loaves, weight of bread sufficiet to raise couple of hundred men and women off their feet. If he Is not sufficiently impressed by this spectacle, let us engage seventy-fve herculean car men and make them file past him fin pro- cession, each carrying a sack of flour 2S0 pounds in weight. every one of which will be required to supply him with bread for his life.
 of meat he will eat on an average a pound a day, and if we limit him to beef we shall require nearly forty bull locks to provide the necessary joints for life, or if he prefers mutton we must sacrifice about forty sheep on the altar of his not immoderate appetite every ten years. Of potatoes POO weight should last him year. This means that his aggre- gate consumption of tubers will weigh seven tons, representing ninety-three sacks, each weighing 16S pounds. or ap- proximately the entire product of couple of acres Of land We shall require half a dozen strong horses to draw our potato supply, and each years consumption will
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 Of fish we must allow him one-half hundredweight year, so that his "aggregate fish," if not so large as a whale, will yet turn the scale at one ton fifteen hundreweght, and will tax the strength of thirty strong men to carry it to his larder.
 Our purchase of eggs will be on a formidable scale. even limiting our man to an average of fewer than two eggs week In all. we shall want 1000 eggs, weighing at last TOO pounds, and repre- senting a years industry of about eighty hens.
 Assuming that we only provide sev- en-tenths of glass of milk a day-a very modest quantity for all purposes we shall find 1t necessary to monopolize the services of a COW for two years and quarter, and the resultant milk will measure 1120 gallons. and will weigh more than five tons. To contain the milk we must provide can five feet at the top and more than fourteen feet high, or something like two and half times as high as our subject
 Nothing less than eighteen pounds of butter can be considered sufficient for a years supply; and this means that in his lifetime our man will dispose of the contents of more than a dozen bar rels each containing 100 pounds of but ter; while, limiting him to one pound of cheese a month, we reach an aggregate of 84O pounds; or, assuming that we are providing for a man of 1e0 pounds weight, five and quarter times his own weight.
 So far we have laid in stock of food which it would take 600 strong men to carry to our imaginary larder, for 1t weighs well over thirty tons. and this Is. as can be seen, but an instalment of what we shall require.
 Of tea and coffee we will furnish no more than a pint day. having regard for our patients nerves, and yet we shall find that he will drink during his life no fewer than 1920 gallons. A coffee pot large enough to contain the two bever- ages (for we can safely mix them for our purpose) will stand IS feet high, with a base of seven feet and a top five feet across. The pot, with it's contents will outweigh three companies of soldiers. and fifty people could be slowed away inside 1t if they did not object to a little tenn porary discomfort.