as follows:--

_Service Afloat._

1 lb. bread (or 3/4 lb. bread and 1/4 lb. trade flour).
1/2 lb. fresh meat.
1 lb. fresh vegetables.
1/8 pint spirit.
4 oz. sugar.
1/2 oz. tea (or 1 oz. coffee for every 1/4 oz. tea).
1/2 oz. ordinary or soluble chocolate (or 1 oz. coffee).
3/4 oz. condensed milk.
1 oz. jam or marmalade.
4 oz. preserved meat on _one_ day of the week in harbour, or on
_two_ days at sea.

Mustard, pepper, vinegar, and salt as required.

Substitute for soft bread when the latter is not available--
1/2 lb. biscuit (new type) or 1 lb. flour.

Substitutes for fresh meat when the latter is not available:--

/(1) Salt pork day:--
| 1/2 lb. salt pork.
| 1/4 lb. split peas.
| Celery seed, 1/2 oz. to every 8 lb. of split peas put
| into the coppers.
On | 1/2 lb. potatoes (or 1 oz. compressed vegetables).
alternate<
days | (2) Preserved meat day:--
| 6 oz. preserved meat.
| 8 oz. trade flour \
| 3/4 oz. refined suet > or 4 oz. rice.
| 2 oz. raisins /
\ 1/2 lb. potatoes (or 1 oz. compressed vegetables).

On shore establishments and depot ships 1/4 pt. fresh milk is issued in
lieu of the 3/4 oz. of condensed milk.

In the United States navy there is more liberality and variety of
diet, the approximate daily cost of the rations supplied being 1s. 3d.
per head. In the American mercantile marine, too, according to the
scale sanctioned by act of Congress (December 21, 1898) for American
ships, the seaman is better off than in the British merchant service.
The scale is shown in Table III.

TABLE III.

+---------+-----------------------++-----------+----------------+
| Weekly | Articles. || Weekly | Articles. |
| Scale. | || Scale. | |
+---------+-----------------------++-----------+----------------+
|3-1/2 lb.| Biscuits. || 7/8 oz. | Tea. |
|3-3/4 " | Salt beef. || 21 " | Sugar. |
| 3 " | " pork. || 1-1/2 lb.| Molasses. |
|1-1/2 " | Flour. || 9 oz. | Fruits, dried. |
| 2 " | Meats, preserved. || 3/4 pt. | Pickles. |