Originally published in November 1895
“The federal government has been experimenting at its military posts with condensed rations. At Fort Logan, the rations consisted of coffee and soup, condensed into small tablets; the bread was crushed into a flat cake of the weight and hardness of a stone. The bacon was solidly packed in a tin can. The soldiers marched and ate as ordered, but their marching and eating were brought to an abrupt end by more than half falling sick before one-half the allotted time expired. The report to the War Department at Washington is wholly against the experiment.”
—Scientific American, November 1895
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