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summer work than on the winter work in Nova Scotia, while 

 none at all was used in Quebec. Not that bacon and ham are 

 ideal summer foods, for they are not ; but they are the only meat 

 which can be carried in warm weather, except such game as the 

 party is able to get on the ground. Sugar shows a higher use 

 in the summer than in winter, though why this is so is not clear, 

 although a man may need more in summer than in winter. The 

 tendency in winter is for fatter foods,, as is shown by the salt 

 pork. The flour, hard bread, and frozen bread should be taken 

 as one ; and they do not show as much as they might, for at times 

 in both winter jobs the crews were without hard bread. In 

 general, however, it has been my experience that the men will 

 eat more flour in winter than in summer. 



The difference in the amounts of potatoes used, I think, are 

 greater than the}^ should be, and reflect rather conditions of 

 accessibility to market and means of transportation than actual 

 normal increase in consumption. The winter should however, 

 show some such normal increase over summer. Just how much 

 is hard to say. Salt, which, at first would appear to be a rather 

 steady article reflects the increase of fresh meats in the winter, 

 and I believe the figures for it are good. In general, the tendency 

 is to a considerable increase of most all food consumption, 

 especially of fatty foods, in the winter time, depending upon the 

 severity of and exposure to the weather. 



