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196 CAMPING AND WOODCRAFTthe concentrated milk of sweet corn) Is quitenourishing, and everybod}^ likes it.A few cans of baked beans {without tomatosauce) will be handy in wet weather. The B. &M. ^-Ib. cans are convenient for a lone camperor for two going light.Nuts.— A handful each of shelled nuts andraisins, with a cake of sweet chocolate, will carrya man far on the trail, or when he has lost it. Thekernels of butternuts and hickory nuts have thehighest fuel value of our native species; peanutsand almonds are very rich in protein ; Brazil nuts,filberts, and pecans, in fat. Peanut butter is aconcentrated food that goes well in sandwiches.One can easily make nut butter of any kind (exceptalmonds or Brazil nuts) for himself by usingthe nut grinder that comes with a kitchen foodchopper,and can add ground dates, ground popcorn,or whatever he likes; but such preparationswill soon grow rancid if not sealed air-tight. Nutbutter is more digestible than kernels unless thelatter are thoroughly chewed.Fruits.— All fruits are very deficient in proteinand (except olives) in fat, but dried fruit is richin carbohydrates. Fruit acid (that of prunes, driedapricots, and dehydrated cranberries, when freshfruit cannot be carried) is a good corrective of atoo fatty and starchy or sugary diet, and a preventiveof scurvy. Most fruits are laxative, andfor that reason, if none other, a good proportion-of dried fruit should be Included In the ration, nomatter how light one travels; otherwise one islikely to suffer from constipation when he changes" from town grub to trail grub."Among canned fruits, those that go farthest arepineapples and blackberries.Excellent jelly can be made in camp from driedapples (see recipe in Chapter XXII).There is much nourishment in dates, figs (thosedried round are better than layer figs) and raisinsc