n that anything but
the most tentative statements must spring from lack of experience. A
man paddling a canoe, or carrying a pack all day, will eat a great deal
more than would the same man sitting a horse. A trip in the clear,
bracing air of the mountains arouses keener appetites than a desert
journey near the borders of Mexico, and a list of supplies ample for the
one would be woefully insufficient for the other. The variation is
really astonishing.

Therefore the following figures must be experimented with rather
cautiously. They represent an average of many of my own trips.

[Sidenote: Grub List]

ONE MONTH'S SUPPLIES FOR ONE MAN ON A FOREST TRIP

15 lbs. flour (includes flour, pancake flour, cornmeal
in proportion to suit)
15 lbs. meat (bacon or boned ham)
8 lbs. rice
1/2 lb. baking powder
1 lb. tea
2 lbs. sugar
150 saccharine tablets
8 lbs. cereal
1 lb. raisins
Salt and pepper
5 lbs. beans
3 lbs. or 1/2 doz. Erbswurst
2 lbs. or 1/2 doz. dried vegetables
2 lbs. dried potatoes
1 can Bakers' eggs.

ONE MONTH'S SUPPLIES FOR ONE MAN ON PACK HORSE TRIP

15 lbs. flour supplies (flour, flapjack flour, cornmeal)
15 lbs. ham and bacon
2 lbs. hominy
4 lbs. rice
1/2 lb. baking powder
1 lb. coffee
1/2 lb. tea
20 lbs. potatoes
A few onions
2 lbs. sugar
150 saccharine tablets
3 lb. pail cottolene, or can olive oil
3 lbs. cream of wheat
5 lbs. mixed dried fruit
Salt, pepper, cinnamon
3 cans evaporated cream
1/2 gal. syrup or honey
5 lbs. beans
Chilis
Pilot bread (in flour sack)
6 cans corn
6 cans salmon
2 cans corned beef
1 can Bakers' eggs
1/2 doz. Maggi's soups
1/2 doz. dried vegetables--beans and Julienne.

[Sidenote: Don't Figure Grub List too Closely]

These lists are not supposed to be "eaten down to the bone." A man
cannot figure that closely. If you buy just what is included in them you
will be well fed, but will probably have a little left at the end of the
month. If you did not, you would probably begin to worry about the
twenty-fifth day. And this does not pay. Of cou