Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1911 — Banish Hard-Tack. [ARTICLE]

Banish Hard-Tack.

New York. —Word comes to military circles here from Washington that hard-tack has been banished in favor of a new ration to be known as “field bread.” Hard-tack will be used in the future only when an organisation is cut off from a supply train or is on a forced march. The new field bread is composed of flour, water, salt and yeast