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Camp Suggestions
Here are a few ideas for the benefit of the inexperienced camper:
Fig. 1 is a camp fireless cooker. A large water pail is placed in a soap box, and then filled in with paper which has been soaked until it spreads like mortar. The cover of the box must fit tightly and also be covered with two inches of paper on the inside. The idea is to heat whatever you want to bake, roast or boil in a smaller closed pail, and when it is sizzling hot, place it quickly into the big pail and cover it and the box. It will take the heat four or five hours to escape on account of the non-conductivity of the paper, and your food will go on cooking without any danger of being burned. Fig. 2 is a roaster made of two pie pans.
The illustration introduces a quartet of suggestions for keeping the food in good condition. Fig. 1 is a piece of meat covered with gauze and protected from flying insects by means of netting stretched over small hoops. In high and dry places it will be found very useful.
The parts a and b are just the same, only b is covered with cloth. The top ends of the cloth fit into the upper pail of water and thus keep it wet, just as dipping a wick in oil keeps it soaked. The lower pail is full of drinking water and it is kept cool by the evaporation of the moisture in the cloth. Evaporation absorbs heat. Try it and see. Figs. 4 and 5 are other applications of the same idea. The outer pail and box are perforated and the space between each pair is filled with loose porous stuff like a sponge. Keep all where the breeze can strike them. Fig. 3 is a fish preserver. It is a watertight box, partly submerged to keep it cool. All the ideas have been tested and found valuable.