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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 1,000,000 
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 
