The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-13
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The exact constituents are:
What It's Made OF
Chocolate liquor. 5000. Ak per cent.
Nucleo-casein ......... 6.SS per cent.
Nucleo-caselin ........ S.sS per cent
Desiccateu eggs........ 2O.64 per cent.
Sugar Observation-Disclosures. 1876 per cent
Cocoa butter. S.66 per cent
Moisture mot over).... 3.62 per cent
Chocolate liquor is the trade name OF
the oily past obtained when the roast
ed seeds of the cocoa tree are ground.
a half of the n4tural contents OF these
seeds is the vegetable fat known as
cocoa butter" and it Is sad but true
Nne general and Dr. Wiley have had
their heads together over all of these
mutters) that the chocolate manuIac-
turer lays aside much of this most
nutritious constituent of his food pro-
duct because, when sold separately as
a cosmetic, 1t demands much higher
price than when left In thechocolate
SO as a precaution against the loss OF
this eXCeIient form nour1shmentS
the commissary- general demands, IN
his SPECIFIC ton, The exact proportion
OF cocoa butter which must be pre-
sent.
| You are probably wondering also
what s'nucleo- casein' is. Cosein 1T
! self IS what we might call the lean
! OF milk. 1t is the part left after the
water and fats have been taken out.
! Cheese made from skim milk is almost
pure casein. Reduced to powder, this
valuable muscle-formins constituent
L o. afik hecuGa .uuc -casetn' and
4 "desiccated eggs" of course means noun
ling moe or less than dried eggs.
/ Most Nutritious Foods Concentrated.
4 Thus you have heard about the most
nutritious foods that nature affords
milk eggs. chocolate. malt and sugar
deprived of water and other un,
necessary portions, the whole mixed
together and pressed into cakes SO
dry ,that less than one-twenty- NTH
part of them are moisture.
l Doesn't tempt you. you say? NO
not now, but II .ou had been on a
hard hike of 1t all dav and there We're
nothing better. it would go reasona .,
~ well. especially when reasoned {,
| with the assurance that 1t contained
the glue that sticks body and SOU
together and the stuff that will drive
the wolf sinking from the door.
Aviators, aeronauts, campers, nun
ters and explorers-to whom news OF u
| lately leaked out in some way-are
already writing to Washington to learr
where they can Obtain these little cans
| The bird man. finding himself LANDED
| in some isolated desert waste or for'
est fastness, miles and miles away IRON
the nearest habitation, would look We
] upon pound or two of this stutI dls'
tributed among his rocke+s.
The Days OF Hardtaciks.
During the Civil War the Union troops
had their marching ration OF pork O
bacon, bareback, coffee and sugar, bu
q regular emergency ration for TN
American soldier was unknown unit
1894. when General Sharpe. then
young captain OF the regulars, wa
one of the pioneer experimenters.w work
ing to fortify our troops against pos
sible starvation during the stress
war Finally. In 1896, there was adopt
ed our irst emergency ration, IN Wh'cl
were embodied some of his tdes !
contained hard bread. pea meal, bacon
coffee saccharine and tobacco. Blu
lin the haste OF rrenarntion for e.
Spanish War only paper was supple
to wrap 1t up In and, being neVe
quite ready for the haversacks OF tn
men. It never served It's rl'rpose !
that struggle. Then, In 191e--betor
General Sharpe was put IN cnaIso -,
the commissarat OF the whole army ~
M emergency ration which the newly ~
Ivented on Is designed to replace wa
Iadopted. .,ta
COmpnctness Down to Fine Point.
How much more compact is the neN
one than that now In use, the accom-
I !panying photographs show. me o.
zone is in can half again =
4 heavy, as long and as thick as the ne
one. TO be more exact, 1t measure
Isix inches in length and nearly Nv
Inches in thickness, and the food "
side the can weighs twelve ounce
a whereas that Of the new one weigh
Ionly ais And the contents OF the o.
II emergency ration are; Cooked whc'
idyied and outer bran remoyed), y