+---------+-----------------------++-----------+----------------+
| Weekly | Articles. || Weekly | Articles. |
| Scale. | || Scale. | |
+---------+-----------------------++-----------+----------------+
|3-1/2 lb.| Biscuits. || 7/8 oz. | Tea. |
|3-3/4 " | Salt beef. || 21 " | Sugar. |
| 3 " | " pork. || 1-1/2 lb.| Molasses. |
|1-1/2 " | Flour. || 9 oz. | Fruits, dried. |
| 2 " | Meats, preserved. || 3/4 pt. | Pickles. |
|10-1/2 " | Bread, fresh (8 lb. || 1 " | Vinegar. |
| | flour in lieu). || 8 oz. | Corn Meal. |
| 1 " | Fish, dried. || 12 " | Onions. |
| 7 " | Potatoes or yams. || 7 " | Lard. |
| 1 " | Tomatoes, preserved. || 7 " | Butter. |
|2/3 " | Peas. || 1/4 " | Mustard. |
|2/3 " | Calavances. || 1/4 " | Pepper. |
|2/3 " | Rice. || 1/4 " | Salt. |
|5-1/4 oz.| Coffee, green. || | |
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In the British mercantile marine there is no scale of provisions
prescribed by the Board of Trade; there is, however, a traditional
scale very generally adopted, having the sanction of custom only and
seldom adhered to. The following dietary scale for steerage
passengers, laid down in the 12th schedule of the Merchant Shipping
Act 1894, is of interest. See Table IV.
Certain substitutions may be made in this scale at the option of the
master of any emigrant ship, provided that the substituted articles
are set forth in the contract tickets of the steerage passengers.
In the British army the soldier is fed partly by a system of
co-operation. He gets a free ration from government of 1 lb. of bread
and 3/4 lb. of meat; in addition there is a messing allowance of 3-1/2d.
per man per day. He is able to supplement his food by purchases from
the canteen. Much depends on the individual management in each
regiment as to the satisfactory expenditure of the messing allowance.
In some regiments an allowance is made from the canteen funds towards
messing in addition to that granted by the government. The ordinary
_field_ ration of the British soldier is 1-1/2 lb. of bread or 1 lb. of
biscuit; 1 lb. of fresh, salt or preserved meat; 1/2 oz. of coffee; 1/6
oz. of tea; 2 oz. of sugar; 1/2 oz. of salt, 1/36 oz. of pepper, the
whole weighing something over 2 lb. 3 oz. This cannot be looked on as
a fixed ration, as it varies in different campaigns, according to the
country into which the troops may be sent. The Prussian soldier during
peace gets weekly from his canteen 11 lb. 1 oz. of rye bread and not
quite 2-1/2 lb. of meat. This is obviously insufficient, but under