Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-24
Nearly o. Million Pounds
Of Beef Alone Needed for
$4,000 Men Gt CGntOnnoe11t
This Enormous Amount Will Be
Required for One Month,
Great Supplies of Feed for
Draft Animals

There will be located at Camp Gordon
more than $4,000 enlisted men not in
GLIDING the officers necessary to COM
mand an army division OF this size.
1t is estimated that the average num-
Der men located at the various canton
Tnents will be about $4,000 and it is on
this number that the calculations of the
amount of food and supplies needed to
maintain any one such encampment Is
based. as is shown in the figures be-
low. To supply Camp Gordon will take
more than is required by the average
sized camp.
For the typical cantonment will be
needed each month three quarters OF a
million pounds of beef alone for the
subsistence of the men and for the
horses and mules 1000 tons of hay
and 100000 pounds Of oats month.
There will be paid out to the men and
officers more than a million dollars on
each pay day.
ITEMS IN RATION.
Based on years of experience 1t has
been found that the normal soldier
should have a certain amount of food
called one ration, in other words three
square meals per day This ration in
cludes twenty ounces of beef, eighteen
ounces of flour, a small amount of bak-
ing powder, about two and one-halt
ounces of beans, twenty ounces or pota"
toes, about one and one-Quarter ounces
OF prunes, a little over one ounce or
coffee, three ounces OF sugar half an
ounce of evaporated milk, half ounce OF
butter a small amount of vinega, lard,
salt and pepper, cinnamon syrup ana
flRvoring extracts.
TIL eflour and baking powder, OF
course, are made up into bread. If beel
is not available. or II a variety Is wanted
twenty ounces of mutton can be suostl-
tuted, twelve ounces Of bacon, or from
IA to Is ounces of fish, or on Christ
mas or Thanksgiving day. eighteen
ounces of turkey. Similarly an ounce
and a half of rice or hominy can be
substituted for beans and onions. Toma'
toes and other fresh vegetables may be
substituted for potatoes. Instead Of
prunes, apples, peaches or jam may be
substituted and vinegar is usually tax
en- in the form Of pickles.
The above is what Is called the gar
rison ration. There is also a neld ra-
ton, a reserve ration and emergency
ration, etc, and special ration Tor
those serving in Alaska, but the garrl-
son ration is what the men Will get IN
camp. Taking these figures 1t will be
seen that the simple ration OF twenty
ounces of beef for one man for one
pounds necessary for the supply of the
entire division for one month, II beef
were the only meat supplied. However,
as this ration is varied experience shows
that about 10000 pounds of beef TO-
600 pounds of fresh mutton and 100000
pounds of bacon are required About
75O, 900 pounds of flour, 10000 pounds
of corn meal and $500 pounds Of bak-
ing powder must be purchased also.
r,n-s nf
eat up about 100000 cans of salmon and
what they leave of 100000 pounds of
potatoes would not be worth saving.
They will need $4,000 pounds of rice.
$780, 900 pounds of fresh onions, $4,000
pounds OF coffee, 100000 pounds of
sugar, $4,000 pint cans of evaporated
cream, $4,000 pounds of lard and 10000
pounds of butter, to say nothing OF $50
tons of ice. Their food will be seasoned
with 10000 pounds of salt, 1900 bottles
each of vanilla and lemon extracts and
in addition to this the quartermaster
will issue the division among other
things $4,000 pounds of soup, 10000
candles and $4,000 boxes of matches.
OTHER THINGS FOR SALE.
So much for what the men get free
of charge. The camp quartermaster
also carries in his storehouse and sells
each month to the men in the division
pIdlClCdlAg dl SOSN 4sNNN VI OShS VI opPAO
butter, a large amount of canned APP
pies. apricots peaches, pears, peas, pine
apples, sliced beef, etc. A few whisk
brooms, nail brushes and similar toilet
articles; 1000 packages of various kinds
of candy, 1000 boxes of cigars, fancy
crackers; $4,000 cases Of sweet corn, a
supply of linen handkerchiefs. 5000
packages of macaroni, n large supply
of shoe polish razors. shoe strings, tall
cum powder and smoking tobacco.
In fact 1t is pretty hard to find some
thing which the quartermaster hasn't
placed on sale at low prices for the ben
eft of the soldiers.
The animals fare pretty we'll, too
For each horse of the average weight
there is fourteen pounds Of hay, twelve
pounds of oats, corn, or barley and 1-2
| pounds of hay, or straw, for bedding
| The heavier horses, such as used in the
| field artillery get seventeen pounds of
hay, fourteen pounds of oats, corn, or
! barley and mule gets fourteen pounds
of hay and nine pounds of oats. This
means for the animals at each camp 450
tons OF bedding. 1000 tons of hay and
| $500, 900 pounds of oats each month.
At each camp there will be about
! forty motor trucks for strictly camp
use, fifty motorcycles, a dozen passen-
! ger automobiles, and from 5000 to T.
| 900 horses.