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tables; 3.2 ounces of sugar; 2.4 ounces of beans or 

 1.6 ounces of hominy or rice; and prunes, apples, 

 peaches, jam, milk, coffee, butter, and so forth, in 

 smaller quantities. 



When these amounts are multiplied by a million, the 

 total bulks as huge as the Rockies. It means 4,250,000 

 pounds of food daily, for seven days a week, and for 

 fifty-two weeks each year. To feed an army of i ,000,000 

 men for one month, according to the quartermaster's 

 department of the United States army, there are re- 

 quired 973,000 pounds of butter, 1,000,000 cans of 

 corned beef, 1,000,000 cans of corned-beef hash, 

 2,000,000 cans of beef, 2,400,000 pounds of coffee, 

 3,000,000 pounds of sugar, 6,000,000 pounds of bacon, 

 23,000,000 pounds of frozen beef, 37,500,000 pounds 

 of flour, and other articles in proportion. 



As the United States raised an army of 4,000,000 

 men, the quantity of food that had to be provided was 

 four times as great as the amounts named or 3,892,000 

 pounds of butter, 4,000,000 cans of corned beef, 4,000,- 

 000 cans of corned-beef hash, 8,000,000 cans of beef, 

 9,600,000 pounds of coffee, 12,000,000 pounds of sugar, 

 24,000,000 pounds of bacon, 92,000,000 pounds of 

 frozen beef, and 150,000,000 pounds of flour, not to 

 mention the "and so forths." This huge total sufficed 

 to feed our completed army for one month only. 



A year's supply for this completed army required, 

 in round numbers, 46,704,000 pounds of butter, 48,000,- 

 000 cans of corned beef, 48,000,000 cans of corned- 

 beef hash, 96,000,000 cans of beef, 115,200,000 pounds 



