Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-05-16

X State Council of Defense for Il
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Nearly twenty square miles of new |
army blankets have been ordered by
the uuartermaster general since war
was declared. Some four thousand
acres of them-5, $780, 36 blankets-had
been delivered up to December 1. LII
the blankets were evenly distributed
there would be enough to give three
to every man in the army.
Overcoats contracted for number
5,691, $50. If half of the entire num-
Der of men of draft age in the country
should be called to the colors these
contracts would supply them with an
overcoat apiece. Deliveries OF over
coats amounted on December l to
2,O26,346 Included in the total are
some hundreds of thousands of deliV-
cries at army supply stations, instead
of at the camps and environments.
Otherwise no man in any Of the camps
would have had to go without an over
coat during the unprecedentedly cold
| weather of last month.
| The army is particularly well sup
piled with shoes, about q, i'll, 900 pairs
having been contracted for and $500
| 29S pairs delivered. Every soldier can
use I'D four pairs before the supply on
hand is exhausted. Over 1854, 900 hats
have been delivered on contracts call
ing for S,O92,O21.
Thirty-five million yards of wooden
cloth for olive drab shirts has been
contracted for. To call it 1874 miles
of cloth will perhaps give a clearer
idea of the size of the order. Nearly
eleven million yards of this material
has been made up into 5,676,444 shirts
The contracts for wooden uniform
cloth reach the somewhat smaller f1g-
ure of 2S,956,958 yards. Over eleven
million yards have been delivered and
have been made into 2,37S,511 COM
plete winter uniforms and 455,S56
extra pairs of breeches.
Over 1O,84S,5OO pieces of winter I'M
derwear have been delivered, out of
2S,275,S45 pieces contracted for.
Other articles that have had to be
supplied to the camps in great guam
titles are bed sacks, comforters, leg
gins and socks. Of the four camps
visited by Surgeon General Gorgas, in
his recent tour of inspection, none re-
ported shortage of bed sacks. There
were leggins enough to &C around, and
the supply of light wooden socks was
IN oyfu
pairs. Camp Sewer reported only two
pairs of the lightweight socks per man,
but had In addition 10000 pairs OF
heavy wooden socks.
None of the camps reporting had
quite enough comforters. Camp Fun
ston, for instance, was short about
5000. 1t, however, had more than
three blankets per man.
In this war the quartermaster de-
partment is feeding five times as many
troops as in the war with Spain with
food costing three times what 1t cost
in 1898, and hard to get at any price
Keeping a million men for year or
the United States garrison ration
means the provision of 225,000 tons
45O,OOOOOO pounds-of fresh beef
This figure is reduced somewhat b.
the substitution of other fresh meats
as turkey, on Thanksgiving Day ant
Christmas, and occasionally mutton Of
fish.
Three hundred million pounds o.
: flour must be supplied for the breat
{ ration, not including the flour used II
, making hard bread. Other items o
= food supply are 100000 pounds o
: coffee, 25OOa tens of sugar and 366,OO'
: gallons of cucumber pickles.
: Besides the articles OF the regula
Z ratssa, tns eeartermsstsr department
Z koeszs - As=S IsS items OF stock 70
> sale re esss. =@@s - &C., items ar
thiass % eat. Others are shoe black
Q ing, writing paper, talcum powder
a 14s, 800 cans-and a few bottles o
8 toilet water.
o Irish Crop Report.
A According to the agricultural stats
q tics of Ireland the total acreage unde
q crops In 1915 was 4,S06,575. The acre
Il age under crops the past year wa
d $50, 453, showing an increase of 763
q S78 acres, or 16 per cent. The tota
10 area under potatoes in 1917 was 7O9'
It 263 acres, as compared with 5S6oO
d acres in 1916, an increase of 122,95o, o
y 81 per cent under hay, 1852, 723 acres
ID as compared with 2,406,247 acres II
1t 1916, an increase Of 126,476 acres, o
5.3 per cent.