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66 CAMPING AND WOODCRAFTCake Turner, steel.Butcher Knife, steel.Flesh Fork, steel.Kitchen Saw, steel.Spring Balance, 24 lb.Pot Cleaner, wire.Can Opener <strong>and</strong> Corkscrew.Salt Shaker.Pepper Shaker.TO Dinner Plates, white enameled, 8J/^ in.6 Cups, white enameled, i pint (h<strong>and</strong>les cut to nest).6 Cereal Bowls, white enameled.6 Knives, steel.6 Forks, white metal.6 Teaspoons, white metal.6 Dessert Spoons, white metal.2 yds. Table Oilcloth.2 yds. Turkish Toweling (dish towels <strong>and</strong> clouts).100 Paper Napkins.1 bar Sapolio.1 bar Fels Naphtha Soap.A milk-can should be added if the camp is near afarm-house.FiRELESS Cookers.— A great deal of the botherof cooking can be saved by using a fireless cooker, inwhich all of the slow processes are performed (roasting,baking, stewing, boiling, <strong>and</strong> making porridge).'In this case only a few simple utensils are required,a wood stove is dispensed with, <strong>and</strong> there is noneed of anyone staying in camp to watch the fire<strong>and</strong> the cooking. The soapstone radiators can beheated over an alcohol or blue-flame stove. Hotmeals can be had at all hours, even when the partyis traveling.A rough-<strong>and</strong>-ready fireless cooker, which can alsobe used as a cold-storage box, was described someyears ago in Outing.—"When preparing your outfit this summer, pack someof your belongings in a soap or cracker box that has afairly close-fitting lid. Take along an old white quilt ora blanket that can be folded into a pad to fit the box, ormake a crude pad out of unbleached muslin with cottonbatting, about one inch thick. Include in your outfit agranit-s cooking pail <strong>com</strong>mensurate in capacity with the

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