night they are practically useless, and in the daytime 

 they are seldom needed. 



And what about a head net .' It is a had country 

 where one is really needed in the daytime, a country 

 in which no one would care to camp for pleasure. 

 However, a net is easily carried. It is hot and much 

 in the way while a person follows a trail. Stewart 

 iMhvard \Yhite, speaking of it says: "You can't smoke 

 and you can't spit on the bait." For protection at 

 night it is as useless as dope and so I never take one, 

 although I have been in the woods in bad mosquito 

 seasons. 



On a trip down the Kettle and St. Croix rivers some 

 years ago, the little pests were as numerous and trouble- 

 some as I ever found them. Two boys and myself 

 pitched our tent in the most open and exposed spots 

 we could find, and we were traveling through a burnt- 

 over country, the region of the great Hinckley fire. 

 Every evening about dusk the hungry hosts drove us 

 into our sheltering tent where a buzzing swarm awaited 

 us. Just burning them out would have taken too long. 

 We opened the flaps wide, pushed a frying pan with a 

 black smudge into the tent, and watched the high- 

 pitched chorus coming out. Then before the smoke had 

 cleared aw T ay we slipped in and closed the tent. It 

 wasn't pleasant but it was bearable and we enjoyed 

 our trip of sixteen days in the wilderness. True, wife 

 and mothers declared that our camping clothes smelled 

 of smoke for two months after our return and that the 

 tan we acquired on that trip would never come off. 



However, the trip w r as worth the trouble and we 

 overstayed our time of two weeks by two days. Had 



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