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and the money value thereof used to purchase other articles of the ration, 

 or articles not on the ration, for the purpose of adding variety to the 

 company bill of fare; or the money value of the articles saved may be 

 added to the company fund. 



The first and third recommendations and indirectly that portion of 

 the sixth recommendation relating to the saving of fresh beef were 

 made effective by the following instructions of the division commander 

 and must have gone into operation at the individual posts between the 

 middle of November, 1909, and the first part of January, 1910. 



Headquarters, Philippines Division, 



Manila, November 3, 1909. 

 The Commanding General, 



Department of Luzon {Visayas, Mindanao, and Camp Avery), Manila. 

 Sir: The division commander directs that the attention of all Scout battalion 

 and company commanders be called to the directions of the Secretary of War, 

 that, with the exception of the meat component of the ration, Scouts will be 

 rationed as largely as possible on native food products; to the recommendation 

 of the Board for the Study of Tropical Diseases, that the amount of rice be 

 reduced from 20 ounces to 16 ounces per ration, and that beans to the extent of 

 1.6 ounce per ration be used in lieu of rice; to Army regulation 1262, under 

 which native food jproducts not procurable locally can be obtained from the 

 subsistence department as exceptional articles. 



In view of the above, company commanders should not draw rice to exceed 

 16 ounces per ration. Savings should be made as largely as possible on potatoes, 

 onions and coffee, and native products, such as camotes, mongos, squash, ginger 

 root, etc., be purchased. 

 Very respectfully, 



(Signed) J. T. Kerr, Adjutant-General. 



Furthermore, steps were taken by the subsistence department to 

 obtain a Filipino number 2 rice (undermilled) to replace the highly 

 milled or "polished" Saigon rice which was used for the Scouts. None 

 of this undermilled rice, however, went into use until about August 

 (as will be shown below). We consider that the provision of under- 

 milled rice combined with the above instructions of the division com- 

 mander would have put into effect the most essential features of the 

 Board's original recommendations. 



The situation was complicated by the arrival, toward the end of 

 March, 1910, of General Orders, No. 24, War Department, February, 

 1910. This order greatly altered the Scout dietary. The components of 

 the ration thus prescribed are shown below : 



