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Flesherton Advance, 24 Jul 1919, p. 7

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Pitch Your Own Vacation Camp By NORMAN KING. A camp may be any place cut in: of your tent. Drive two largre and I the country where a stop is ma<1e from very green stakes into tha prround, ' one nijfht to one summer, but the' slanting back from the tent The slant ; camp that gives the most fun and most must be enough to hold a backinK of I separator at just its worth in saving ''^'P* ^^^ health is that made in i[ logs. Very green and tough wood Uke "Keep the fall shoats growing and I time, which is surely five cents a day putting on fat, even if you have to that would amount in a year to $18 '>o •-.•<ii.;-^>.uw)„,.- Keep the Fall Pigs Growing. tent. basswood or something that does not If you are camping in a bungalow burn easily, is be-st. Pile up the green The Great West Permanent L«/ua Company. ''eronto Office. 20 King St. West 4% ai;ow«d en B^rlaci. Inte'c-it conjc':ted quirterly. Witirirawable by Cheque. i',\% on Dobentnroi, Interest payr.bia t?M yearly. Paid up Capital $2,412,978. INTERNATIONAL JULY 27. 46 buy corn at a high price in order to' At that rate, in two or thrft years tlie °^ ^ cottage you have "civilized fix-! logs and build the fire in front of this. do it," is the advice of several sue-' separator will have ea'rned its cost '"^^'" ^* '"^ °^^ guide used to say. The back wall throws the heat and the •cessful hog breeders. This is es3en-| And such fitcuring does not consider ^^^ meant that it was no test to one's light toward your tent and makes a tially true on farms v.here cows are' the saving in butterfat So it can b" w°<"^<^'"'*^'^ ^o I'^s under a good roof cheerful place to sit about. If you kept, and where it is possible to: seen that if one plans to make^ Much ^'^'^ '^''^ ''°°" ^^'^ "^' furniture. have several days of rain, rig up a add skim-milk to the diet. I butter a separator is a necess't'* I '^^^ *^"* makej an admirable home Ehelier twenty feet above a:->d over "Hogs that are put on the market â-  After the milk is brought from the sheSuld be grained m addition to their barn while still warm, it should be summer pasture," is the advice of one strained through a wire strainer and of the most successful breeders. "Pall cheesecloth combined, to remove all for the summer -tamper. .1. You may this by means of hemlock boughs is probably lh3 healthiest, softest andl ^''"^''^n Fellow.liip-AcU 2: 42. most comfortable bed ever invented ^"^ > P'^''- *'• 10-20. Golden by m.-in. j Text. 1 John 1: 7. The very best method for carrying : ' . . , ,„ ,^ „ , j â-  on the camp duties for a party of four : /" ^cts 2: 42, 46, 47, ther4 is a is to split up in teams of two. One P'^''"'"« "* ^^^ fellowship of the first team will do all the work one day,^"'''^^-"" community in Jerusalem. , ., K„ f . ^ . 1 1 ^'h'le the other two will do nothi.ng ^here were dai_ly meetings, ig which remain a day. a week, or month by fastened to long pol^s. : „, ^ ,„„f ^^ ^„^ ^,^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^j,,^ they ate together in simple fellow- the shore of river, pond, or lake; or A cooking fireplace may be built „,j,g„ rn^h are readv On the next ^'^'P- dist notions of rank and class may pick up at a couple of hours', of flat stones or of two flattened and ^ j.j^g ^'^_^' ' ^,, , ,, j, having been laid aside. The apostles _...:â€" ._j â€" 1 .. »u„, *u« .,.:j»_ <.._.u.. u„_i. i- • '•,,-,....,. djgcip'.es and 3 were prayers and words of eeause there were m, those who old them arid all brother is, of course, not to be despis-^ An iron rod to rest on the crotches I ed. I is best. Make pot-hc'.ders lige the let- â-  If your camping vacation is to be ter S, h.ive pianty of them to hook of more than a few days, by all means together to hang a kettle as cloje to, take a tent. If you do not expect to or far from the fire as you wish. alone, and then fed out for winter mar-! cording to the directions which are ket when the price is at the bottom, furnished with the machine The time to get the fall pigs to markett It is surprising how many persons is in the summer or the early fall : m erely po\ir some warm water through when the i:r ce IS ?t the top." j the separator and "take a chance." , .u .u * A- ti, i,- « , n , ^ f '"â- "' ...^.., .. I asked a man w^ho aims to have! I remember a conversation with one ^'7 """p ^^^"^ ^''^^f °'; ^°"'" ,'^^'^: , The' ccokmg fire should be made of, vacation can be imagined. from sixty to one hundred fall pigs; lady about the keeping and ripening "" ""' " "'" ' ' '""" ~ ready for market, hov/ he pianned hi* of cream. had possessions games and the busy days but '^^'"^ ^•'''^^' «"'* "«^' adherents were ten the pleasure of the free days. J^*^ "^ welcomed daily to all the privi- ind you have no tent handy, or do not hard wood, to avoid flames. The best wish to be bothered with carrying cooking is done over glowing coals feeding program. "I intend to carry "Why, before I get a chance to even °"-' a short, sharp, sheathed camp- Pino and other soft woods will not ^^jp^ ^^^ j^^.^ '^^ ^^^^^^ ^,^^ ^^^^ them through the summer on alfalfa' start to rinen mv cream," she told me, and about one-half as much corn as; "I find that it' has 'turned' a good they will eat. To finish them I will; many times lately." plant six acres cf n'nety-day corn on! "How often do you plan to churn?" fall plowing. As soon as this starts ^ I asked her. to dent I will turn the hogs into the I "Well, last winter I used to churn field and let them 'hog down' the corn.] about twice a week, but now I must They will be in good shape when theyi churn at least three times and some- go into the field and will be ready; times four times a week," she told me. to take on fat r.ipidly, and shou'.d'"! can't see why it acts so," she con- be ready for the market by September] tinued, "but it seems that every time 15 to October 1. ; that I get a certain amount of cream "I know this is a good way to feedi collected it sours before I am ready, from my experience of last season," ! So I have to chum before it gets too explained the famer. "In April. 1918,! sour or rancid. Even then it does not I bought e'ghty head of October pigs.; have that clean sour taste it used to I fed them a half-fesd of corn ani run have." them on alfalfa until August 20, wh:n I I did some hard thinking, because I turned them into a six-acre field of as far as I knew she was very par- ninety-day corn. They weighed one|ticular in her buttermaking. I won- hundred and ninety pounds each when dered if it could be something wrong i! r axe will provide your shelter. Select make a good bed of coals. Start with cam'-ing a boulder or ledge with an abrupt kindlings, pine needles, dried leaves, side, cut long poles and lean them little dead twigs and over these lay against this at a height for you to your hard wcod. When yoa have a pass beneath when standing erect at good bei! cf coals there will be little j the place whore they rest against the or no flame and a small amount of ledge. Hold stakes in pbce at the smoke but an intense heat, really base with stakes, place them two feet more heat thanr softwood in a mass aoart, laying five of these in position, flames will give. Thatch with hemlock bciighs. Over For a long stay, nail boxes to a the boughs scatter pine needles thick-, tree to hold your staple groceries, and between meals fop little fishing trips and bright- ^ .^^ j„. If two farm girls can make cam-j '«^" and happy comradeship of this with two farm mothers, no more ideal "«^^' '"S- This was tTie beginning cf a movement which was to spread Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Coun- rapidly to all nations, and which is try Folk's Clubs, under wise leader- ^'^^ '" conquer the world. Phil. 4: 10-20. Y'our Care of Me. ; Paul was writing from a Reman ; prison, into which he l;ad been cast i upon his arrival in Rome in the year j CO or (51 A.D. About eleven years I before, on his second missionary jour- ] ney, Paul had come over from Asia into Macedonia and had preached the Gospel to the Philippians, founding I there the first Christian Church in i Europe. Ee had been driven from ,'^, -^"''1 \[^S/oms IA The Land of Nod. Philippi by persecution, but returned ly and then more boughs on the top; drive inn.iils ''^^ your kitchen outfit. 'V.'ould ycu know the way to the Land thither seme five or six yeirs later, this covering being placed v,-ith tips A strip of tarred p&per above and; of Nod, Ke speaks of the Philippians in terms towards the ground, like shingles, below will keep out ants and ether Where the sunset fsiries dwell, I of warm appreciation of their con- your shelter will be waterproof. I insects, as they wi!l not cross the To make it w^indproof you close the tarred paper. Below that, protect back end with upright poles a foot from squiiTels with either tin or barb-' apart between which you weave more ed wire. A dozen sheets of sticky fly boughs. ; paper is better than anything else to Such shelter is not advisable for put around the trees above and below more thaji a week at the most. .as it as neither animals nor insects will; they went into the^corn, and when I ! with the separator. We wenl to the '^ "°' sufficiently dry or ventilatedj get across it. ! "â- â€¢'â- â€¢'â- " - If you intend to camp in one spoW Fcr a stay of two weeks or more by lake or river, a large 9x9 wall tent; it is worth while to make a shelter is best as it is more roomy; but if outside the sleeping tent, and make a you are planning to journey a'ocut i rough table and bench for your dining sold them, September 20 they arer.ig- machine and took it apart. ed two hundred and fifty pounds. Dfi-j Well, it \\:;s coated with thick curds liveretl to market they brought ?.19;of raneid cream and sour milk that per hundred pounds. Thus, each aero; had been left there by careless clean- of corn, which would make about forty j ing. It was a wonder to me that the bushels per acre, made me eight hun- ; creani did not come out of the spout dred pounds of pork, which at $19 sour. per hundred, was worth $152." [ "Now this locks as though it had Another practical farmer was asked' not been washed and cleaned as It from one place to another on lake or room. river, seeking new fishing grounds A good supply of 'outter helps the and change of scene, or seeking berry food supply but this and canned evap- fields. a small A-tent is best oecause orated milk spoil quickly in hot wea- it may be put up and "struck" or ther unless you learn the trick of taken down, in one-quarter of the time keeping them. i that you can handle the wall tent with Within two or three feet of the Xhere's Wliers dear little darlings, misty- ^stant and unfailing kindness to him, eyed, and of the care which they had of him. On snow-white ponies sleepily See 2 Cor. 11: 9, and compare verse »ide I 15. When he first left them and went To the sound of a drowsy bell, bell, â-  to Thessalonica they had sent him bell. I gifts (v. 16), and again when he was And the hum of a seaside shell? j in Corinth. But during his long im- ' prisonment rh Palestine they had There is a way to the Land of Nod, ..jaeked opportunity" to help him. By a slowly ebbing tide, ; nj^^. bearing that he was in Rome Or. which the boats go dropping' ^j ;„ prison, thev sent Epaphroditus f^O'*^'" , ;with gifts for him. Paul savs, "Ye With sails of snow, like my baby s },jve revived your thought for me" ^°^'''"' ' (v. 10 in Revised 'Version), and speaks Till the sleep-river grows so wide,;^^ ^^at which they sent as "an odor wide, wide, i ^c ^ s.,veet smell, a sacrifice acceptable. if he thought it practical or profitable should have been," I told her. ''Don't to feed $1.50 com to $18 hogs," and I you wash it at least once a day?" â-  replied that he thought so. "I think 1 1 "Now I can see what the trouble can put two pounds a day on my hogs- is," she exclaimed. "Mary, come here," '°P^^- until they go to market, and tiris j she called, and the hired grirl came in. ' The A-tent ordinarily is held in po amount will mean a good profit to' "Mary," she asked, "don't you wash, sition by three poles, two uprights.' the water until they come just above its double rows of tent pins and stay water dig a hole below the water-line. The water fills the hole to a heig'nt of a foot. Then you place rocks in One ^^carce can see to the farther , ^.gjjp,gjj5i„^ ^^ g^j .. ^"^^- I Epaphroditus had journeyed seven another route to the Land of hundred miles to bring these kindly Nod, gifts. While in Rome he had been L'p a mountain steep and high, i busy ministering to Paul and helping And warm-clad climbers, hand in I in the work of the Church. Paul calls. me." Ithis separator every day « I told oae at each end, with a pin in the top.; the surface. Y'ou may place your hand. I him "my brother and fellow-worker Next door I found a man with two you to?" ' ; this pin passing through poles in the crock of butter, your can of milk, your hundred head of pigs he had picked "Well, it's like this," and Mary' top pole. Such poles are heavy and package of pork and such other foods up. These will be fed through the hung her head. "I've been so busy take up considerable room in a boat as spoil quickly, in this "refrigerator." summer in order to have them ready lately that I could not wash it every or are heavy to carry if you pack Have a cover to put over the top and for the mid-November market. "I in- day, so I thought that if I ran some your outfit. They are also too cumber- roll a heavy stone on this. Everything Go scftly"^up to the starry land. '' and fellow-soldier, and your messeng- And there on 'olue cloudlets they|er and minister in my need" (2: 25.) lie. lie, lie. ' j But he had been taken seriously ill And cruise bvblue islands cf the I and was near to death. "For the work' sky. ' of Christ." Paul says, "he came nigh 1 unto death" (2: 30), probably having tend to crowd these pigs from the warm water through it that it would some for canoe traveling. A long and will keep here as it would in the .Ami so they come to the Land of Nod., encountered severe hardships on his y be threaded through average refrigerator except in the By the shimmering, star-lit way, i long journey, but even in his illness start to the finish. I shall try to keep go all right until I got a chance, but, strong rope may be threaded through them growing during the summer by honest, I never let it go over a week." the pole-pin eyelets at the top of such â-  case of thunderstorm, when the milk feeding gra'n with their pasture. I. Mary was a new girl and ne%-er had an -A-tent, the rope passing down from will spoil, but in that case it v.. mid planted fifteen acres of early corn worketl where butter was made, so she the outside, running beneath the width spoil anywhere about the camp, which I shall 'hog down' as soon as ; did not realize the importance of a of the tent and out the other hole. Make a little shelter under some it starts to dent. From the time the clean separator, but we had found the K the rope is on top it will make tree near the camp and put in several pigs go into the com field until they cause, and after that there was no the tent leak in a rain. Fasten the bushels of dry pine needles, pine cones, are ready for the market "-hey will be more trouble. , rope to two trees, tightening it a lit- birch bark and tiny dry twigs. Be on full feed, and I believe the younscer i I have known of others that seem tie- every day if the weather is dr>-, sure that this is covered over so that I can get a hog to market the more to be careless in a way similar to that or loosening it a trifle if it is rainy, it cannot get wet. Never use this for profit he will make me, if I can make! of .Mary, though perhaps not quite for in wet weather it will shrink and kindling your fire in dry weather, him weigh two hundred and twenty- i so bad. But such methods, while sav- may break apart in the night, during Save it for rainy days and for such .And niddy-noddies ccme in bands his character shines forth brightly. And take the white-robed travel- : for he v/as "sore troubled," not be- ler's hands, 1 cause he was sick, but because his .And with them in Dreamland they friends in Philippi had heard and play, play. play. would be anxious (2: 26). Till they melt into mist at peep o' jj Epaphroditus is a fair sample of the Philippian Christians, then they were good fellows indeed. Paul speaks \ particularly of their "fellowshio in the furtherance cf the gospel from day. Save Grain by Clean Threshing- There is no doubt that a gre^at deal ; the first day until now" (1: 5). and of five pounds or more. It takes feed to; ing work and time in one way, cause a rain and drop the tent on you, a emergencies as when you come home of grain goes into the strawstacks their fellowship in his affliction. (4: maintain the hog that isn't growing; it also takes about so much to put on the extra flesh in addition to growing the frame, and the sooner I can get the hog to the proper weight the fewer days' maintenance I will have to pay for." The three letters in the successful poric-maker's primer, are good blood. summer pasture, "hogging down" early corn. The best way for a farmer to make pork profitable is by starting with good blood, building a good frame on the shoats, mainly with a heavy loss in others. every threshing season. Not so much 15K It was that sense of comrade- as some people believe, and not enough ship, much more than their gifts, in many cases to make it pay to thresh which pleased and comforted him. He most uncomfortable predicament. , after dark and it is difficult to find For a camp-site always select a . kindlings. slight knoll if possible, even if you I For a party of four you will need: have to go back a hundred yards from I four quilts, two blankets, two rubber the strawstacks for the grain in them, could have done without the gifts, for the water. A slight knoll or bit of 'blankets, two short-handled axes (be- but enough to make clean threshing he had learned self-denial in a hard rising ground is easy to find no matter' cause you are likely to lose one), a necessary. .. i school (vs. 11-13), but their love for There are slacliers even in poultry- how slight the slope all around, if it ' short-handled hoe for digging trench- Before the threshing season ended ; him and care of him and thought for dom. As a rule hens do not show will shed water. Pitch your tent on ; es. plenty of rope, extra suit of old last year. twenr,:.--two states of the him were unspeakably precious, great activi'tv during hot weather but top of this and in rain storms the; clothes and underclothes, plenty of Republic to the south, where eflForts It is, he said, "not because I desire there are some which- become so lazy water will never gather under your ; fishing tackle, frying pan, two kettles, toward cleaner threshing were carried a gift," but "fruit that may abound that thev are not worth their feed tent. To keep dry is the first health ; coffee pot, eight tin plates, four steel on, reported an aggregate saving of to your account." He did desire that Those are the hens that cut down rule of camping. Cold air will never knives and forks, plenty of nails and; 16,000.000 bushels of wheat. Other they should be the kind of people who their egg yield Hot weather is worse' hurt you. but dampness is dangerous. ' spikes, six cheap spoons, two large states, although they did not give would be thoughtful and generous. egg y for hens than cold weather, for during If you cannot find a little knoll, the i spoons, one clasp knife, two butcher figures, reported greatly reduced har- and would do kindly deeds that would legumes or rape, "hogging d»wn" a I the winter month a hen with any life' next "best thing is to dig a trench j knives, eight S pot hooks, five pint tin vest losses. In addition to wheat, at be to ther credit. He desired that field of early corn, and then tnally in her will busy herself to keep warm, around your tent a:id a little ditch i dippers, one toaster, two cakes sand which the clean threshing campaign their oreilit account should be large, finishing with a self-feeder on shelled ^^^ hens that are bordering on the at the lowest point of ground so the. soap, two bars soap that will float.; was especially aimed, there were cor-! that they might have a rich reward corn and tankage. In this way early molting period, having laid heavily rain will run off the tent into the four dish towels, four Turkish towels, responding savings of other grains from God. For, he said to them. "My /spring pigs from good blood strains 'the previous months, are now sort of ditch and be drained away and any rags for dish cloths and a small kit which are harvested and threshed in God shall supply all your need ac- can be made to weigh from two hun-| resting up. They deserve it. | water flowing down from higher containing gauze for bandages, cots much the same manner as wheat and cording to his riches in glory by Christ dred and fifty to three hundred, Nq one can lay a similar charge ground will go into the ditch instead for injured fingers, needles, thread, usually with the same machinery. An Jesus." pounds in ten months. against the lice. Hot weather and filth of into your tent. | safety-pins, court-plaster, carbolated average of several thousand tests The relation of Christian love and One breeder advises that he made are their delight. They are wide; Never toss the refuse from your ' ^'*^^^'"*' •^ama-ica ginger, and Epsom showed that raking shock rows saved fellowship existing between Paul and his cheapest gain by letting his shoats | awake, and no good poultrvman will camp cooking into the water nea- you ' »alts. i about one bushel of grain an acre. In the Christian folk of Philippi is ex. run into a field of new corn, in addi-| permit them to take control of his unless it is a swiftly running rivjr,! ^°^ supplies take five pounds com- the past this operation has 'been an'ceedingly beautiful. It is just such a tion to giving them access to a self- ! henneries. Get busy. land never toss it ne.nr vou on the meal, four double loaves of bread, two, infrequent practice. Figuring this relationship as should be everywhere feeder with tankage. The next cheap- 1 Rats, weasels, minks and ocossums' ground. Refuse tossed 'nto s-ill water pounds coffee, half pound tea. four year's wheat crop at about 71,000.000 ; between fellow-members of the cans roast beef, peck potatoes, half acres, a saving of one bushel an acre; Church and between the members and peck onions, five pounds sugar, five ; would mean $160,4('0,000, at $2.2(5 a ! the pastor of the Church. When I Rats, weasels, minks and opossums ground. Refuse tossed 'nto s-ill water est gains he ever made were mad^ are full of life, too. This is their busy ! will attract water snakes; thrown vn when the hogs ran to a self-feeder month. Be equal to the occasion, j the ground it will decay and be un- containing tankage and corn, and at I Deny them quarters. j healthy and attract flies and mos.rui- the same time had all the good pas-i Cull the flocks. Dispose of all the toes. Mosquitoes may be malarial, ture they wanted. If pasture is not j old stock that is not intended to be' flies always carry poison germ?. Keep available, hogs on feed should -bei carried over. It is a wise move to do them away. Cover the flap of >-our given last -cutting alfalfa. | so before the fowls go into molt, i tent with mosquito netting to keep u j • • > "Pork cannot be grown profitably i Separate the cockerels from the pul-i them out at night and burn .•» fire of.^^''" douotless include other dainties.^ small grains is th.-eshed from the without pasture." he continued. "If lets, and give the cockerels some extra- rotten wood, green leaves and grass ^^ they are called. | shocks. Thre.-shing from the stack re- alfalfa is not available, or if the | feeding. They need it. Market all | over hot coals or anything rh&t willj These supplies, with the butter, i quires extra help to do the haul-ng and feeder is a tenant who cannot sow alfalfa, it will pay to sow rape. I pounds salt pork, four cans evaporated bushel. A corresponding saving might selfishness and strife enter the lifa milk (which is much better than the be effected in Canada. ; of the Church 't decays and dies. Bet- condensed milk), four cans clams, four ; The time of threshing depends on ; ter to bear all things, and endure cans baked beans, three pounds crack- 1 weather conditions. In regions subject; offences with all patience, than to ers. ^alt and pepper. .\ girls' camp to heavy rainfall only a small part of ; destroy such a fellowship! bave made tests to learn the value of rape compared with alfalfa for hogs, and I find there is little difference in the feeding value." Separator Pays For Itself. Nowadays it seems foolish to think of separating the milk and cream by the old-fashioned method of shallow- pan setting. By this I mean putting the milk in pans about four inches deep and letting stand until cold, then skimming the cream that collects on the top. While nice butter can some- times 'oe made from the cream obtain- ed by such methods, considering the loss cf tiino and butterfat, the mo<fern , crfnr;' ^.yraratrr soon pays fur itself.; If one rccl;ons the value of a cream ' Writing Under Difficulties. Edward W. Croft, a newspaperman, surplus cockerels as soon as they are i make a heavv smoke or smudge. Sn;i! ^PfV"-- J'i-'H.i'a" "BOJ' purchase ;;owj s^Jiici::^, Ji';t i'iij .helj at Jthrj,sl.m5 j vjtJjij ;vas a passenger in a biplane from fit. la fire n^ar wdiert you are eat-ng will and then from" the farmers, together ; time. Besides, stackea grain can be | Champaign^'" *â-  '"•' '- ' of pi 111., to Chicago, wrote a The nights are hot, and therefore J drive away the bothersome insects. : with the fish you should catch, should; threshed later when help is not so , numljer oF pj^s of coy)v wTi Tle tr .tvel- the fowls should be given as nearly It is no more work to be comfortable' prove sufficient for four hungry boys; hard to get. Grain threshed out of thcj ling from T.OO0 to"X00'l?e'^t "iirUw sir. outdoor conditions as it is possible. i when camping. " »- • ' â-  ' .i- -i i i j <â-  . ..- i or five ( ?) hungry girls for a three-, shock must be very dry if it is to keep, sometimes "above the oToudsand fly Here is where the open-front scratch ing shed proves its worth. Cut down all heat-producing food, feed plenty of green stuflT. se,e that there is a plentiful supply of fresh water within reach, provide shade, and there will be fewer slacker hens and consequent- ly more eggs. Make a sprinkler for yo'.ir flower garden by taking a lard pail and with a small nail punch a number o' holes in the bottom. Fill the punctured p,<>ii by setting it m a larger pai! of water, lift it out and swing it back and forth over your plants. The best method of handling "e- ' weei trip. You will be surprise.d to j well in storage. i at 90 miles an hour, using a typewriter fuse is to dig a hole a hundred yards find how little space they take. Packj In some small neighborhoods sever- ; strapped to a board, with the board from camp and throw it in there, them in soap boxes if you go to your,al farmers go together and buy a strapped to his knees and himseiC covering with boards or slabs of bark, camping place by boat; pack the bed-j thresher, running it with their trac-l strapped In the biplane. The camper is judged by the sort ding in one bundle and roll it up v.'ithi tors. In still other instances an indi-i * of fire he is able to make. Fhe atna-i the tent. Y'ou will then have plenty; vidua! owns a small thresher, costing! The use of passenger cars and com* teur cannot make a practical fire, thisjof room in your boat. $300 or so, and threshes at his own,niercial trucks in cities and country veteran camper works wonde.r.s with! Stretch a long rope out in the sun j convenience, using his tractor or gas- [ districts has displaced many nfiillions his fires. .Anyone can pile up br.nnches ! and every morning hang your bedding oiine engine for power. This plan and make a blaze, also a great smoke. I upon it. The best beds are made by| is to be encouraged in many neigh- Besides the little smudge fire to drive j covering the ground inside your tentj borhoods. away gnats and mosquitoe.s there is! with dry pine needles at least two » the cnoking fire and the night or ; feet in depth, and over these sprcid camp flre. ( a layer of just the tips of hemiock The night cr cnmp fire should be branches about a foot in depth. This built tv.cr.ty feet from the opening makes, for the active camper, what the other windows in the house. The cellar windows should be just as carefully fitted with sereins as are of horses. This is an enormous sav. ing in grain, time an 1 labor. Rub soap on, under and around tht ftngernads before going to work ia the garden. Then when you havf finished your work, the grime eii easily be removed. The same r * holds gnoti when polishing a sto"

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