In aid of the combined women’s charities of Montreal the Local Council has cooperated with the Fédération Nationale in holding two successful tag days.
The amount of food furnished by the government is extremely liberal, so that the daily ration provided for each sailor is more than he can eat under ordinary circumstances.
The parasitic grub to which fate has allotted the scanty masculine ration has not perhaps sufficient with this share; it wants an extra portion, which it can obtain by changing its cell.
Let us add that this ball, a ration calculated by the needs of the grub, is very nearly constant in size, whatever the dimensions of the final calabash.
This larva, which had finished its ration the day before, was discovered next day in another chamber, where it was sharing its neighbour's repast.
Each globule harbours one larva, no more, or the ration would be insufficient.
This done, there is a change of diet: after the Anthophora's egg the larva proceeds to consume the ration of honey.
The middle part of the roll, the ration which will be consumed last, when the grub has acquired some strength, consists of almost nothing but dry pollen.
On the floor thus obtained, a second ration of honey is placed; and an egg is laid on the surface of the paste.
I imagine, without possessing any certain proof, that from time to time she distributes additional provisions to the grubs, for the original loaf appears to me a very frugal ration compared with that served by the other Bees.
Next comes the ration of honey, the laying of the egg and the partitioning, the last a delicate operation to which the insect proceeds by degrees from the base to the top.
All the representations of the ship's doctor with a view of increasing for the time being the quantity of water supplied, and diminishing the ration when cooler latitudes were reached, were useless.
We were so oppressed by the heat," he says, "and our ration of water was so meagre, that unhappy sailors were seen drinking their urine.
From this journey, as stated, we evolved the final sledging ration for the Summit, it was to consist of: 16 ozs.
Still, it is worthy of mention that on the day the ponies did their last march every man amongst their leaders gave half his biscuit ration to his little animal.
It may seem little enough for a hungry sledger, but, no one could possibly eat that amount in a temperate climate; it was a fine filling ration even for the Antarctic.
For the first time since leaving Corner Camp we felt that our ration was sufficient; we had now commenced the "Summit ration," which contained considerable extra fats.
The biscuit rationhad to be stopped entirely from July to September.
The dog drivers were not so ravenous as the man-hauling party, which was natural, but still it was uncommonly generous of them to give us part of their ration for nothing.
There was our letter printed in full, and below it was the epoch-making decision of the Government: "A special ration of soft food may be issued to edentulous persons in famine camps.
I remember the date rather particularly because it was just then that they ceased to ration bacon altogether.
You must write, 'I suggest that a special ration of soft food be issued to such persons.
Finally we got over this difficulty, and a tolerable solution was found to the ration problem.
By 1st March it was found possible to increase the ration to seven hundred grammes, or nearly the normal allowance.
The reduction of the cereal ration could not be avoided.
It being "ration day," we must describe the serving, that being an interesting phase of plantation life.
There were also a maltster, to make malt, and a brewer and baker, to prepare the weekly rationof bread and ale; sometimes these offices were performed by men, sometimes by women.
Sixteen ounces of bread and eight ounces of beef are the ration of the district pauper.
The ration of a soldier is so large that a man who can eat it all in a day is renowned as a glutton.
The animals were given an extra ration of oats, while the guards were obliged to take whips and strike at the horses on the picket-line, to keep them in motion and prevent them from freezing.
I think but few instances ever occur where the entire ration is consumed by one man.
One of our favourite ones was to work the officer in charge for an extra ration of rum.
After a good sleep and our daily ration of one biscuit and a small piece of bully-beef, we felt better but still very hungry.
Well, the men on these pumps (two on each) and the one at the shaft were served out with rubber boots and oilskins, and these were the only Canadians who received their ration of rum from the Imperial officer.
Our ration parties were all killed trying to get food to us.
The British Tommy was given his ration of rum as soon as he came up from the sap, but we Canadians had to wait for ours till we reached our rest billets, and it was served to us there by one of our own officers.
I mean dey would draw so much of ration from dey Massa to last dem a week at a time just like de people draw government ration right 'bout here now.
It corrects the unhygienic properties of non-potable water and therefore enters into the army and navy ration of nearly all the nations of Europe.
It is an excellent drink, aromatic, tonic, stomachic and stimulant, and would probably be highly useful as well as economical as a part of the ration of European and native troops in the field.
In many navies lemon juice forms a part of the sea ration as a preventive of scurvy, upon which it exercises a real and noteworthy action.
No wonder you like independent action, if this is what comes of it; there have we been feeding on tough ration beef, and here are the contents of a whole farmyard.
The drink ration can be entirely commuted and the food ration one half, but not more.
The day before starting on a journey, the dog receives a half ration only, and he is kept on this slender diet as long as the journey lasts.
The grog rationis allowed, and the boatswain's call to liquid refreshment is longer and shriller than for any other duty.
A sailor's ration in the Russian navy is more than sufficient for an ordinary appetite and digestion.
Nor will the feeding of such a ration teach the farmer how to calculate the most economical ration from feeding stuffs at current prices.
The ration should contain not less than two pounds of digestible protein.
In ordinary practice, about ten pounds of the dry matter of the ration is obtained from maize silage, nine pounds from hay and about six pounds from grain or other concentrates.
Lib looked upon Fred with a little more toleration, after he had said "Miss Gaylord," and went and ordered an additional ration to be put into the lunch basket.
He tramps about and lashes his tail against the bars and stamps his feet, and his keeper hurries to throw him his ration of raw meat.
At home, the talk was mainly of Gothas--the Zeppelin was entirely demode--and ration cards.
She produced a field post card--muddy, crumpled, evidently dispatched by the grimy hand of a stretcher-bearer or a ration orderly.
Having consumed its meatration and sugarless apple tart, the company proceeded to mitigate the austerity of Lady Christina's war-time regime with a glass of port.
Approximate net weight pounds 2 The fieldration is the ration prescribed in orders by the commander of the field forces.
In addition to the foregoing, commanders will require each man on the march to carry the unconsumed portion of the day's ration issued the night before for the noonday meal.
If one reserve ration and one emergency ration are carried in lieu of two reserve rations, the haversack is packed in the manner described above, except that one emergency ration is substituted for two of the cartons of hard bread.
The mess sergeant should find out whether lunch or the reserve ration will be carried on the march and should attend to these details in the evening in order that the issue can be made promptly in the morning.
Remember that even a very limited amount of bacon or hard bread, or both, consumed with the emergency ration makes it far more palatable, and generally extends the period during which it can be consumed with relish.
In theration section of the field train, for each animal, two day's grain rations.
Detailed instructions as to the manner of preparing the emergencyration are found on the label of each can.
A ration is the allowance of food for one man for one day.
D Company lost a good man in Lance Corporal Tremellen, who was wounded by a bullet through the legs when leading a ration party 'across the top,' and other N.
With luck the great compensation of hot food--tea and stew--would be brought up by the ration parties.
When the siege commenced, there was in the Commissary Department at Knoxville little more than a day's ration for the whole army.
As a consequence of this, I ate much less than usual, and could scarcely have consumed the ration of a soldier.
For several consecutive days in February, Hébuterne received a rationof several thousand shells, and cases of shell shock made their appearance.
The sugar, coffee, and smaller parts of the ration were good, but we had no vegetables, and the few jars of preserves and some few vegetables kept by the sutler were too expensive to be indulged in.
In order to prepare a dry ration of suitable keeping properties, it was necessary to remove the alcohol and water from the various preparations.
In Street’s experiments, rats were placed on a ration insufficient for normal nutrition and growth.
Growth curves of Rats 4, 5 and 6, on Ration 2: Sanatogen.
After the rats had been on this ration for some time and a failure to maintain weight was indicated, an amount of dealcoholized Hagee’s Cordial was substituted for a portion of the lard contained in the ration.
Growth curves of Rats 1, 2 and 3, onRation 1: Casein.
