CONVICT LABOK FOE EOAD WOEK. 169 



Dinner: 



Stewed peas or beans (about four times a week) or potatoes or cabbage or 

 gi'eens or any other vegetable procurable. 



Soup at rare intervals. 



Boiled salt pork. 



Corn bread. 



Molasses. 

 Supper: 



Same as breakfast, except flour bread instead of corn bread and salt fish 

 instead of pork sometimes. 



Fresh meat is served once a week when it can be obtained. 



Georgia: Cost op Ration About 20 Cents Per Day. 



The Prison Commission of Georgia has prescribed the following 

 ration list as the minimum food allowance which may be given to 

 convicts employed in the road camps : 



Ounces. 



Sirup (3 times a week) 2 



Vegetables (.3 meals a week) 6.4 



Coffee (1 cup at breakfast) 32 



Salt 64 



Pepper 02 



Vinegar 32 



Ounces. 

 Salt pork 12 



Fresh pork, beef, mutton, or kid 



(twice each week) 16 



Corn meal 9.6 



TMieat bread (3 meals per week), 



flour per meal. . 2.4 



Baking powder 16 



The meals actually served at the camps are more liberal than these 

 allowances would indicate. The following is a fair sample: 



Breakfast: 



WTiite biscuit (from 2.4 ounces flour). 

 . Fried salt pork, 4 ounces. 



Molasses. 



Coffee. 

 Dinner: 



Fresh meat, 16 ounces (two days a week). 



Stewed peas or beans, 4 ounces (three or four days a week). 



Some seasonable vegetable when peas or beans are not given. 



Boiled salt pork, 4 ounces (when fresh meat is not provided). 



Com bread (as much as desired). 

 Supper: 



Salt fish, 5 ounces. 



Boiled rice or left-over vegetable. 



Com bread. 



Molaases. 



Many of the camps are supplied with fresh vegetables raised on the 

 convict farms. An attempt is made to vary the vegetables as much as 



possible. 



Florida: Cost op Ration About 25 Cents. 

 Breakfast: 



Rice or hominy grits. 



Corn l^read or white bis^juit. 



Fried salt pork (with tomato sauce occasionally). 



Coffoe, with sugar and condensed milk. 



Molaeaes. 



