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helpers, or cookees, each at $1.50 per day. These three men are 

 the first to rise in the morning and the last to bed at night. No 

 pains or expense are spared to have plenty of everything, and 

 everything of the best. For instance, there is Shredded Wheat, 

 Grapenuts, and Force on the table all the time, and in addition, 

 oatmeal is served for breakfast. Tea, coffee, milk and cream for 

 every meal. Fresh and salt meat for nearly every meal, with eggs 

 two or three times a week. Fresh vegetables all the time. Various 

 kinds of pickles and dressings, wheat bread always, and either hot 

 corn bread, hot biscuits, or hot rolls for dinner and supper every 

 day. Apple sauce, preserved pears or peaches, and jelly is always 

 on the table, while a barrel of apples is always open to anyone. 

 Mince, apple, strawberry, huckleberry, apricot, raisin and peach 

 pies take their turn for dinner and supper, with often some kind 

 of pudding besides. Cookies are always before you, while about 

 twice a week the cook bakes a layer cake — jelly, icing or chocolate, 

 as the case may be. Indigestion was not an uncommon malady ! 



The cost of boarding, including the wages of the cook and 

 cookees, averages fifty-three cents per day per man. This is for 

 a working camp of fifty-five men. But there are three crews or 

 parts of crews to every camp — those coming to camp, those at 

 work, and those leaving camp. For, the lumber jack is restless 

 and above all, a critic, and if things are not to his liking he is very 

 brief in "histeing his turkey." These men, then, the comers and 

 goers, increase the cost of board to the contractor about seven 

 cents a day for each of the fifty-five or sixty-five men at work, so 

 that in cost accounting it is necessary to figure board at sixty 

 cents per day per man. 



Feed. — The following is the average monthly consumption of 

 twenty horses : 



8 tons hay at $26.00 $208.00 



500 bushels oats at .67 335-00 



20 sacks bran at 1.50 30.00 



Total $573-00 



Thus it is seen that the cost per day for the twenty horses is 

 $19.10, or taking into account medicines, wear and tear, etc., ap- 

 proximately $1 per day per horse. 



