Popular Science Monthly 

 Medical Men in the Army — Thous- 

 ands of Them Are Needed 



WHEN Uncle Sam sends his fighting 

 forces to the front he will require 

 the services of 24,000 officers and 120,000 

 enlisted men for the Army Medical and 

 Sanitary Corps. It has been estimated 

 that the army will need two out of 

 every nine physicians in the country. 



The average number of physicians 

 receiving orders has been about two 

 hundred a day. As fast as accommoda- 

 tions are ready these medical officers 

 are sent to training camps. They go 

 ahead of the troops in order 

 that sanitary preparations may 

 be made for the men. 



The medical training camps 

 at Fort Riley, Fort Benjamin 

 Harrison and Fort Oglethorpe 

 take care of 1,000 student of- 

 ficers and 1,800 enlisted men. 

 Besides these each camp has 

 four ambulance companies, 

 four field hospitals and one 

 evacuation company. That 

 colored troops may have their 

 own medical officers there is a 

 training camp for colored medi- 

 cal and sanitary detachments. 



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Packing Chocolate in Sausage-Links 

 for Italian Soldiers 



EXPERIENCE has proved that the 

 most economical and convenient 

 method of preparing chocolate for the use of 

 soldiers is to pack it in sausage-links. The 

 chocolate, mixed with sugar, is poured 

 directly from the crusher-mill in which the 

 cocoa bean is crushed, into the pendant 

 sausage casing and tied up so that it looks 

 exactly like a small sau- 

 sage. It soon hardens and 

 may be carried in the 

 pocket or stored for almost 

 any length of time without 

 becoming stale. 



The chocolate sausage is 

 considered by the 

 Italians as an essen- 

 tiaLwhen campaign- 

 ing. It is used either 

 for the purpose of 

 making instantly a 

 nutritious beverage 

 or for eating, like 

 candy, on a long, 

 dinnerless march. 



Dietitians give chocolate a high rank for its 

 nutrition. This is how it is prepared for the 

 Italian soldiers so that it will not melt 



The gasoline engine drives 

 the machine ahead and 

 the forked spades work 

 the ground, while you 

 simply take the plow 

 handles and steer 



A Spading Machine 

 Which Makes Patriotic 

 Gardening Worth While 



THE average man who 

 works during the day 

 finds the home garden a 

 big undertaking, unless he 

 has a gasoline spading machine like the one 

 recently rigged up in New Jersey by 

 Raymond D. Jamesson. With it the plow- 

 ing and spading are done in one-fifth the 

 usual time and without the usual backache. 

 A small gasoline engine is mounted on a 

 light framework, and this is geared up with 

 the two spurred driving wheels. Another 

 gearing is connected with the pivoted fork 

 spades so that the prongs of these are given 

 a reciprocating motion. All you have to 

 do, therefore, is-to take the plow handles 

 and steer the machine; the eight horse- 

 power engine will 

 drive it; the spades 

 will dig up the 

 ground ; the forks 

 will break up the 

 clods of earth, and a 

 special device will 

 open up the furrow. 

 On the return trip 

 this same device will 

 cover over the seeds 

 and the center wheel 

 will press them down. 

 The hand spade 

 method is ancient 

 compared with this. 



