CONVICT LABOR FOE ROAD WORK. 169 
Dinner: 
Stewed peas or beans (about four times a week) or potatoes or cabbage or 
greens 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 of 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, 
Salt pork 12 
Fresh pork, beef, mutton, or kid 
(twice each week) 16 
Corn meal 9.6 
Wheat bread (3 meals per week), 
flour per meal.. 2.4 
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 
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: 
White 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). 
Corn bread (as much as desired). 
Supper: 
Salt fish, 5 ounces. 
Boiled rice or left-over vegetable. 
Corn bread. 
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 of Ration About 25 Cents. 
Breakfast: 
Rice or hominy grits. 
Corn bread or white biscuit. 
Fried salt pork (with tomato sauce occasionally). 
Coffee, with sugar and condensed milk. 
Molasses. 
