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addition of 3 or 4 lbs. of fish or game or similar supplies, take a 

 couple of pounds of dried beef. 



It pays to put up your provisions in small cloth bags. Save salt 

 sacks or flour sacks in anticipation of the trip. Sew by the middle 

 point a foot or foot and a half of tape near the mouth of such a sack 

 so that it may be conveniently tied up. When the tie string is 

 sewed on, it will not be lost. Put only one sort of food into each 

 sack, and label it plainly with an express package marking pencil. 

 It is such a comfort to come to camp at night, open your pack with 

 the assurance that the food will not be mixed in one glorious jumble, 

 with much of the mixture in the interstices of your blankets or 

 clothing. 



Most of the foods listed above can be bought at any grocery 

 store, but erbswurst, desiccated vegetables, and milk powder may 

 have to be bought of dealers in campers' supplies, such as Aber- 

 crombie and Fitch, of New York City, or Von Lengerke and 

 Antoine of Chicago. The large mail order houses also carry such 

 supplies. 



There have been enumerated a good many articles that must be 

 carried. When going alone, these articles must be made up into 

 a bundle which can be fastened into a harness that fits the shoulders 

 and head so as to be carried with comfort. When two persons are 

 going, two packs may be made, or one person may carry the grub, 

 camera plates, and such heavy articles in a water-proof sack. For 

 ease of carriage, nothing quite equals the Swiss ruck sack. Such a 

 sack may be purchased of any campers' supply house, or may 

 be made as follows: 

 f Take a piece of water-proof cloth a foot and a half wide and a 

 yard long. In purchasing the cloth, buy three-quarters of a yard 

 a yard wide. Light weight water-proof duck can be bought at any 

 dry goods store, or can be ordered from the supply houses already 

 mentioned. Fold this piece so as to make a double piece eighteen 

 inches square. Sew the opposite edges firmly and turn inside out. 

 This makes a sack open at one end. Fig. 5 . Turn in a seam a half 

 inch wide around this opening, and sew it down. On the middle of 

 one side of the mouth sew a flap six inches wide and eight inches 

 long. The edges of this flap should be bound with tape or turned 

 in so as to form a seam. Cut out a series of holes three inches 

 apart in the seam around the mouth of the sack, and button-hole 

 stitch them. Run a long shoe lace through these holes so that the 



