CAMPS 73 
Much attention has been given to the eUmination of these wastes 
in recent years, owing to the high price of foodstuffs. Many 
logging camps now serve excellent meals. 
Bills of fare for logging camps have been published in lumber 
trade journals at various times, in an effort to encourage a varied 
diet in logging camps menus, because it is a recognized fact that 
well-cooked, appetizing, and nourishing food tends to increased 
efficiency on the part of the workmen.^ 
Recipes for the preparation of foodstuffs in logging camps have 
rarely been especially prepared, since the procedure does not differ 
from that applicable in any industrial camp in which large numbers 
of men are fed.^ 
The ration lists given in Table ^T are suggestive merely, in- 
dicating the general class of foods furnished in logging camps in 
the Pacific Northwest^ and in the Northeast. 
The amount of animal feed required is approximately 30 pounds 
of hay and 20 pounds of grain daily per animal. 
The total weight of animal feed and foodstuffs required to log 
one million feet, log scale, of timber in the Northeast is approxi- 
mately 200 tons. Data for other regions are not available. 
Commissar}^ supplies and animal feed are usually hauled into 
northern camps during the late fall and early winter on tote sleds. 
Where there are good roads, supplies are occasionally wagoned 
in during the summer. A two-horse team will haul about 1500 
pounds of supplies daily for a distance of 20 miles on a sled, 
while a team of four horses will seldom haul more than 1000 
pounds on a wagon. Supplies for railroad camps are brought 
in, as needed, by rail. 
•CAMP HYGIENE 
Early logging camps had no system of medical supervision, 
and occasionally there were serious epidemics in camps, especially 
in those parts of the country where logging was carried on during 
the warmer months of the year. They were of rarer occurrence 
^ See West Coast Lumberman, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 15, 1915, p. 20. 
2 Recipes for the preparation of foodstuffs for a 50-man camp in the 
Northeast were published in the proceedings of the First .\nnual Conference 
of the Woods Department, Berlin Mills Co., et al, held Nov. 25 and 26, 1913, 
Berhn, New Hampshire. 
3 See Investigation of Feeding Operations, Timberman, October, 1918, 
pp. 65 to 68. 
