The Pulaskian., 1917-08-24

NATIONAL ARMY IS
 A HEARTY EATER
SOLDIER BOYS WHO WILL RE PORT AT CAMP PIKE EARLY IN SEPTEMBER, WILL HAVE AN
 ENORMOUS FOOD BILL.

Three squares day for Uncle Sam's National Army means some thing more than the casual observer would imagine, and for that reason the Pulaskian today publishes q few of the items that are to be bought for each of the cantonments. There are 16 canonments, and like number of training camps for the state troops. formerly the National Guard There are A3,000 men at each cantonment, or, that is the average Of the sixteen. The government has been buying heavily for Camp Pike, but has not yet issued specifications for the big army. as it has done for some of the other cantonments. Quite few local jobbers have received contracts for supplies for the army of men now at the Camp. but many officers have been ordered to report August 29. and it is supposed the drafted men will begin coming in great droyes within two weeks afterwards. The Camn will be practically completed by tkat time.
 The food supplied to 10000 men fer thirty days will be as follows:
 Baeon-180.000 pounds.
 Flour-1,4 ,404, 320 pounds.
 Hard Bread--60, 1000 pounds.
 Baking Powder-6 ,505 cans
 Beans s-128,00O pounds.
 Rce-440O0 pounds.
 Tomatoes-77.S $50 cans.
 Prunes-3 1000 pounds.
 Evaporated Apples-f4000 pounds. Eyaporated Peaches-1O, ,000 pounds.
 Blackberry Jam-30,720 cans.
 Coffee-S0.400 pounds
 Tea-12,000 pounds.
 Granulated Sugar-252. 900 pounds.
 Evaporated Milk-53, 76O pints.
 Vinegar-3 $500 gallons
 Cucumber Pickles .OOo gallons.
 Salt-52.000 pounds.
 Black Pepper-13.000 cans
 Cinnamon-1, ,920 cans.
 Cloves-720 cans.
 Ginger-1,4 40 cans.
 Nutmegs-120 pounds.
 Siiup-12,720 gallons
 Lemon Fxtract-3,S4 $40 bottles.
 Vanilla Extract-4,S 800 bottles.
 Soap-50,4 400 pounds.
 LOGO pounds.
 Rock SaIt-2,0O0 pounds.
 Fresh Beef, 100000 pounds.
 Fresh Mutton-75,000 pounds.
 Fresh Potatoes-1, 100000 pounds
 Fresh Onions-224,000 pounds.
 Lard-12,000 pounds.
 Butter-40.000 pounds.
 Ice-6000,0O0 pounds.
 As food will have to be provided for 100000 men the foregoing fig ures must be multiplied by twenty five in order to find the quantity that the quartermasters will be required to purchase every month.
 A little arithmetic will show that 100000 men will daily eat 5.971 bar relS of four, or the wheat of a field nearly four miles long and almost as wide. They will consume 150,G00 pounds of bacon, or the equivalent. if every hog were nothing but bacon, of 7a0 head weighing 200 pounds each; ten carload of potatoes, ten carloads of beef and large fraction of car load of coffee.
 Horses and mules, to the number of 250,00 will be bought by the quar- termaster for the thirty-two camps The daily ration at present for a horse is fourteen pounds of hay and twelve pounds of oats The wise and frugal mule gets the same quantity of hay but only nine pounds of grain. Each animal is allowed three and d half pounds of straw for bedding.
 The daily purchases, then, will he 1,750 tons of hay, 1912 tons of oats and 442 tons of straw, or about three trainloads of fodder for the animals at all of the camps. s.
 In the meantime, while the soldiers have been consuming prodigious quan- titles of beef and wheat, immense or ders for clothing will have been given to manufacturers in all parts of the country. Early in the summer con tracts were made within two weeks for 3,175,000 pairs of army shoes, at a cost of more than $5 pair