The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-24
at over so per cent. profi., and 70 tell

at over, 80 per cent. proft, and, to tell
the truth, NE run IT, ~ about i6 per
cent, We fnd we can do that, and sell
a loaf OF brad at just the cost Of the
pound of flour that is supposed 70 go
into the making of that loaf. This
seems strange t. YOU, but you must
remember that there Is gseat deal of
water in bread Now. the water
weighs, and this weight is taken into
account when tho pound loaf of bread
is sold. The man who knows anything
| about baking need not lie awake at
night worrying about the profits OF his
baker. They are very large"
| This Hresd Keeps Fresh Two Weeks.
Another bread made here is such
that it will keep for days and stin re-
main fresh and good. This Is after a
French method, the bread oeiag made
inEiong round loeves, one OF which
stood upon end would reach to the
height OF ONES waist The loaf IS half
slit before baking. and in this way an
additional amount of crust is formed
Such bread is good when the army IS
marching SO rapidly that new bread
,, cannot be supplied from day to day
It should BIO good and palatable for fif-
i teen days after making. and It is in
tended to be used when the troops can
not be supplied with soft bread AMI t.
ooviate the necessity Of using hard
! bread at such times
The Emergency Ration. /,
And just hero I want to tell you
about the emergency ration. This Is
a new food by means OF which the
soldier need never go hungry 1t has
been invented by the commissa ry-g gem
eral in connection with other officers
of the army. and 1t consists of a little
package not bigger than "a deck of
playing cards. or. whoa incaeet in tin.
not larger than hnlf-ptnt flask of
whiskey 1t can DO easily carried in
ones breast pocker. THIS lItus pack
age weighs only eight ounces. but It
contains three full meals, and its ma
! tire Is such that a man could live
| upon 1t for long time IL he had TO.
+, II is made of the component parts OF
milk and eggs. SO treated and mixed
with chocolate that they look exactly
/ Ike the chocolate cakes you buy II,
the candy stores. Each ration is in the
form of three caks OF equal size. Each
cake Is wrapped In tin foil. and all
three are inclosed in an hermeticaIly
| sealed round-cornered tin box of the
| size have described .
I have talked with the army oGacofs
about these rat!ons. and they tell me
\
Wood has used them when out camp
ing, and many OF the other officers
+, carry them with them on their test
| rides and use no other food at such
F., times. General Fred Grant on his last
ride Of ninety miles-or thirty miles
| 2 day for three days-took three OF
these emergency rations with him, in
tending to use one for each day. He
! found however, that one ration. OF
eight ounces OF this concentrated food
was sufficient for the whole three days
and he was not hungry at the close.
| 7 am nibbling at one of these ra-
tons as ] write. It tastes Just like
chocolate, and am told that It can
be made by any chocolate factory. We
! have such factories IN nearly every
large city. and General Sharpe tells
me that an order for them might be
placed at any time in thirty Of our
chief cities. and that each factory
would turn out $1,000 to 10000 day.
In this way we could have 100000 such
retions almost upon call. Those RAJ
tons keep q. long time. The one m