The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-13

keep him going for lifetime of sew
enty years.
Such a man will make light of dis
posing of 100 pound loaves every
twelve months, so that we must pro-
vide him with 1000 substantial loaves
weight of bread sufficient to raise
a couple of hundred men and women
off their feet. If he is not sufficient
ly impressed by this spectacle, let US
engage seventy-five hercuIean car men
and made them file past him in pro-
cesslon, each carrying a sack of -four
ZSO 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 day, and if we limit him
to beef we shall require nearly forty
oullocks to provide, the necessary
joints for life, or if he prefers NUT
ton we must sacrifice about forty
sheep on the altar of his not i'm
moderate appetite every ten years.
OF potatoes 200 weight should last him
a year. This means that his aggre-
gate consumption of tubers will weigh
seven tons, representing ninety-three
sacks, each weighing 1853 pounds, or
approximately the entire product of a
couple OF acres of land. We shall re-
quire half a dozen strong horses to
draw our potato supply, and each
years consumption will weigh con-
siderably more than our subject him
self.
OF fish we must allow him one-halt
hundredweight a year, so that his
aggregate fish," If not so large as
whale, will yet turn the scale at one
ton fifteen hundredweight, and will
tax the strength of thirty strong men
to carry it to his larder.
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formidable scale. even limiting our
man to an average of fewer than two
eggs week. In all, we shall want
1000 eggs, weighing at least 700 pounds,
and representing a years industry of
about eighty hens.
Assuming that we only provide sew
en-tenths of a glass of milk day-a
very modest quantity for all purposes
we shall find it necessary to monop-
oliZe the services of a COW for two
years and quarter, and the result
ant milk will measure 1,12O gallons,
and will weigh more than five tons. To
contain the milk we must provide a
can five feet in diameter at the base,
three 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 putter can be CONSIDERED Sufnclent
for years supply; and this means
that in his lifetime our man will dis
pose of the contents of more than a
dozen barrels, each containing 100
pounds of butter; while, limiting him
to one pound OF cheese a month, we
reach an aggregate Of $40 pounds; or,
assuming that we are providing for a
man of 100 pounds weight, five and
quarter times his own weight.
So far we have laid in a stock of
food which it would take 800 strong
men to carry to our ina ginary larder,
for it weighs well over thirty tons, and
this is, as can be seen, but an INSTALL
ment of what we shall require.
OF tea and coffee we will furnish no
more than a pint a 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 cof-
fee pot large enough to contain the
two beverages (for we can safely mix
them for our purpose) will stand Is
feet high, with base of feet and
top feet across. The pot, with its
contents will outweigh three compa-
MES of soldiers, and fifty people could
be slowed away inside it If they did
not obpect to a little temporary dis
comfort.