The Pulaskian., 1915-01-29

carries the stock of provisions and a trailer fitted up with kitchen outfit capable of preparing food and coffee for 250 men at one time, or 2,000 men in each 24 hours. One of the kitchen utensils is a 20-gallon coffee pot; an- other kettle of 53 gallons capacity. The big kettles are jacketed with gly- cerin, which enables them to retain the heat, so that it is only necessary to cook their contents for 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 coun- 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- diyidual tins, are also staple articles of diet.
 The English army recently made change in the ration on the advice of the army medical board. The doctors daoidod +1,o+ oe Top,rov AfI-ipc mar doing harder work he ought to get more food The ration is worked out in "calories," which are really heat units. A given amount of certain sort of food will supply definite num- Der of these heat units. Formerly the English soldiers daily ration was ex- pected to give him 1000 calories. Now it 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 heat unit, one calorie should supply 3.077 foot pounds of mechanical energy. Therefore, soldiers ration should supply 15,OOO,- GOO foot pounds of energy a day, which is ten times the amount of mus cular energy displayed by man doing hard days work.
 The final outcome of the war de- bends 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, It was said at the beginning of the war, to last for three years. Moreover, she 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 it 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 fleet 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 im- portant, with very definite and very good sources of future supply. It will take long time to starve out any or the combatants-so long a time in fact that it is highly improbable that the war will be ended through hunger.