Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-01-30

carries the stock of provisions and a
trailer fitted up with kitchen outfit
capable of preparing food and coffee
for $50 men at one time. or 1000 men
i'm each 81 hours One of the kitchen
utensils is a 2oeallou coffee pot; al
other 4 kettle OF So gallons Canacity
The big kettles are iackcted with Civ
corin, which enables them to retain
the heat So that il is only necessary
to cook their contents for a short
time and clamp down the lid. The heat
is retained. just as in the small fire
less cookers used by many house
wives.
Meat must enter largely into the
menu of all the armies. Where It is
possible to get geef on the hoof, either
by purchase in the neighboring couH-
try. or by shipment in cattle cars.
this is obtained for the men. slaugh-
tered and dressed near by and eaten
Immediately. Frozen beef is also large
ly used, though difficult to transport.
Canned beef. dried beef and corned
beef are in very general use. Canned
stuffs of all kinds are available for
the soldier Of the present day Canned
pork and beans and rations of com
bined meat and cereal. put up In In
dividual tins. are also staple articles
Of diet.
The English army recently made a
change in the ration on the advice OF
the army medical board. The doctors
decided that as Tommy Atkins was
doing harder work he ought to get
more food. The ration is worked out
in Galleries." which are really heat
units. A given amount of a certain
sort of food will supply a definite num-
Der of these heat units. Formerly the
English soldiers daily ration was ex'
pected to give him 1000 calories. Now
ii is to give him 5000, the extra thou
sand being intended to supply him
with energy for the extra work he
has to do and the extra nerve strain
he has to stand AS a heat unit, one
calorie should supply 3.077 foot pounds
of mechanical energy. Therefore, a
soldiers ration should supply l5.000,'
600 foot pounds of energy a day,
which is ten times the amount Of mus
cular energy displayed by man doing
a hard days work.
The final outcome of the war de-
ponds as much upon the holding out
of the food supplies for the rival
armies as 1t does upon the endurance
of the fighting men and the ability
of their respective countries to keep
the ranks we'll filled with recruits.
Germany, according to reports. has
an immense amount OF foodstuffs
stored up in her granaries-enough, 1t
was said at the beginning OF the war,
to last for three years. Moreover, sho
has just harvested a bumper crop.
Russia is one of the greatest wheat
growing countries in the world. She
is sure to have plenty of food for her
own consumption, though 1t is not so
certain that she will be able to send
her surplus to her allies, as the ordi-
nary roads of travel are blocked by
the Germans. England, while her feet
holds command over the seas, can
bring almost limitless quantities of
foodstuffs to her own doors and send
as much as is needed over to her
armies and her allies in France This
war, above any war OF history, sees
the armies of all the belligerents well
supplied with food, and. still more i'm
portant, with very definite and very
good sources Of future supply. 1t will
take long time to starve out any of
the combatants-so long a time in
fact that it is highly improbable that
the war will be ended through hunger