Williams news., 1915-02-18

trailer fitted up with kitchen outnt capable of preparing food and conee for 25O men at one time, or 2,O0O men in each 24 hours. One of the kltcnen utensils is 20-gallon coffee pot; an other kettle of 53 gallons capaclty' The big kettles are 5acketed with gly-
 cerin, which enables them to retaih
 the heat, SO that it Is only necessary
 to cook their contents for short
 time and clamp down the lid. The neat
 is retained, just as in the small nre'
 less cookers used by many mousse
 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. siaugn- tered and dressed near by and eaten | immediately. Frozen beef Is also large | ly used, though difficult to transport: Canned beef, dried beef and corneo | beef are in very general use. Canned l stuffs of all kinds are available for i the soldier of the present day. Canned
 pork and beans and rations of com | bined meat and cereal, put up In h. | diyidual tins, are also staple articles | of diet.
 The English army recently made !! change in the ration on the advice or l 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 l ryhtnh TQAllV nGaI.
 units. 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 4,OO0 calories. Now
 it is to give him 5000. the extra thou
 sand being intended to supply him
 with energy for the extra work ne
 has to do and the extra nerve strain he has to stand. AS heat unit, one calorie should supply 3,O77 foot pounds !, of mechanical energy. Therefore, soldiers ration should supply 15.0OO' 900 foot pounds of energy day which is ten times the amount of mus !, cular energy displayed by man doine hard days work.
 f The final outcome of the war de , bends as much upon the holding ou
 of the food supplies for the riva armies as 1t does upon the endurance . of the fighting men and the abil1t! P of their respective countries to keel P the ranks we'll filled with recruits l. Germany, according to reports.' ha !. an immense amount of foodstun q stored up in her. granaries-enougn, il was said at the beginning of the wal ,- to last for three years. Moreover, sh 2. has just harvested bumper croI D. Russia is one of the greatest whea n growing countries in the world. Sh e is sure to have plenty of food for he d own consumption, though it Is not s Id certain that she will be able to sen 10 her surplus to her allies, as the ord 10 nary roads of travel are blocked b IF the Germans. England, while her fes
 holds command over the seas. ca bring almost limitless quantities ( " foodstuffs to her own doors and sen ,. as much as is needed over to ht .h armies and her allies in France. Tn ,e war. above any war of history. se' .s the armies of all the belligerents we m supplied with food, and, still more il TT. portant, with very definite and vel ds good sources of future supply. It W! 5e take a long time to starve out any ns the combatants-so long a time an fact that it is Highly improbable tn nh the war will be ended through hunge