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PROVISIONSi8iof humbug In it. A spell of bad weather may defeat the best of hunters and fishermen. Even grantingthat luck is good, the kill is likely to be of onekind at a time. With only the six articles named,nobody can serve the same game in a variety ofways. Now, consider a moment. How would youlike to sit down to nothing but fried chicken andbiscuit, three times a day? Chicken everlastinglyfried in pork grease — and, if you tire of that, well,eat fried " sow-belly," and sop your bread in thegrease! It is just the same with trout or bass asit is with chicken ; the same with pheasant or duck,rabbit or squirrel or bear. The only kind of wildmeat that civilized man can relish for three consecutivemeals, served in the same fashion, is venisonof the deer family. Go, then, prepared to lendvariety to your menu. Food that palls is bad food— worse in camp than anywhere else, for you can'tescape to a restaurant.Food as a Source of Energy.— The energydeveloped by food is measured in calories. A calorieis the amount of heat required to raise one poundof water through four degrees Fahrenheit. A manat moderately active muscular work requires about3,400 calories of food-fuel a day; one at hard muscularwork, about 4,150; one at very hard work,about 5,500 calories (Atwater's figures).According to the latest data supplied me by theU. S. Department of Agriculture (February, 19 16)the fuel value of protein is about 1,815 calories perpound, that of carbohydrates is the same, and thatof fats is about 4,080 calories per pound." A pound of wheat flour, which consists largelyof starch, has an average fuel value of about 1,625calories, and a pound of butter, which is mostly fat,about 3,410 calories. These are only about oneeighthwater. Whole milk, which is seven-eighthsw^ater,has an average fuel value of 310 calories perpound; cream, which has more fat and less water,865 calories, and skim milk, which is whole milkafter the cream has been removed, 165 calories.