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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 359, 27 October 1898, Page 5 (Supplement)

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Messrs Alex. Harvey & Sons, Durham-street, Auckland, manufacture all classes of tinware in connection with tho dairy and milk supply, for which they have imported specially tinned sheets. During the last Imperial manoeuvres (says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily News) a series of experiments on the value of sugar as food was carried out by Chief Staft'doctor Leitumtorfer. Twenty men were selected from the same company of each of the three battalions, 10 of whom were subjected to the sugar diet, while the other ltf received txactly tho Fame rations as the rations of the rest of the company. The j results of the experiment have now been 1 made known in the German Military j Medical Weekly. According to this J ollicial report the weight of the sugar men increased during the rnauceurveß more than that of tho " control " men. It was proved that during lonir marches j the feelings of hunger could be kept down for a longer time by the use of j sugar, that the sugar people suffered less | from thirst than the others, and that a few pieces of sugar sufficed to ttill I thirst for a considerable time. It was j also observed that symptoms of ex- j haustion or of sunstroke were quickly overcome by a small ration of sugar. : Dr Leitenstorfer now recommends that sugar bo considered a regular article of soldiers' food, that it bo stored with the other provisions for fortresses, hospitals, and ships, and that, above all soldiers on the march thould have a su pp'y °f *'•