Army ration

Porpoises are caught and is purified by washing and settling. utilized in a similar fashion; however,, the blubber and the jaw oil are col:lected and used separately for the manufacture of oils. The flesh of both sharks and porpoises is edible, and should serve as a source of food for man. J. S. H. Army Ration.-Dli. MERKEL H. JACOBS, Captain, Sanitary Corps, United States ;\rIny, has studied the army ration and its Under ordinaq balance (Militnq &lvgco?~, 1919, xliv, Goo-GIG). conditions, a soldier cats sufticient food to obtain, on the average, In a permanent camp his average from 3200 to 4ooo calorie9 daily. dail>- food consumption is 3600 calories, including 1200 calories at 1300 calories at dinner, and I IOO calories at supper; I IO breakfast, grams of protein or nitrogenous food and 97 grams of fat are eaten daily; the remainder of the energy is supplied by starches .\ deviation of 200 or 300 calories and sugars in the foodstuffs. front the :I\-erage i5 1)eriiii>siblc on some days provided the general ;Ivc~rag~ be niaintainetl. J. s. 1-I. Carotinoids as Fat-Soluble Vitamine .-The 1)ro~isional as~utnption has been made that the fat-soluble vitamine is identical \vith one of the carotinoids or pigments of the fats. I’hLhIlJR (.T~.~cIzc-c, 1919, 1, sol-jo2) points out that the fat-soluble \-itamine Inn>- occur in nature in the absence of carotinoids, and that carotitlaids mav occur in nature and the absence of the fat-soluble vitamine. Thus,