Food Supplies Suitable for the Trails. 
On all trips under three days in length many 
standard groceries can be carried, such as fresh 
bread and other baked goods, package groceries, 
canned goods in tins or even glass, fresh meat and 
eggs, condensed soups, ete. On long trail trips» 
however, foods must be selected with care in 
order to keep the packs from being too heavy. 
Experience in the woods has proved the value of 
the following list of foods, and it is given for the 
benefit of those to whom the selection of foods 
for such a trail journey may be a new experience: 
Foods Suitable for a Long Stay in the Woods, 
Dried apples. 
Dried apricots. 
Raisins. 
Bar chocolate. 
Chocolate nut bars. 
Malted-milk tablets. 
Chocolate. 
Cocoa. 
Tea. 
Hard-tack biscuits. Coffee. 
Pea-meal biscuits. Sugar. 
Flour. Salt. 
Pancake flour. Pepper. 
Cracked wheat. 
- Cereals. Bacon. 
Butter. 
Dehydrated soups. Cheese. 
Dehydrated eggs. Fats. 
Milk powder. Oils. 
Dried pitted prunes. Beans. 
Dried black figs. Rice. 
Split peas. 
Shelled nuts. 
Peanuts. 
Almonds. 
Walnuts. 
Pecans. 
Nut butter. 
Condensed milk in small tins. 
A mixture of coarsely ground whole wheat, 
nuts, and raisins makes a most nourishing and 
compact food to be carried in the woods. With 
thick condensed milk it is a most wholesome and 
appetizing dish, and can be eaten without cook- 
ing. 
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Rice is one of the most sustaining foods which 
can be taken, and can be eaten for extended 
periods of time without palling on the taste. 
Experienced woodsmen have a great preference 
for rice. The best quality unpolished rice should 
be selected. 
Flour, bacon, salt, sugar, prunes, dried apples, 
rice, and beans are the standard necessities of the 
prospector, miner, hunter, and trapper. 
Coffee should be ground, or some of the many 
brands of soluble coffees may be used. 
The National Forest. 
A National Forest is a large Government-owned 
timber farm, in charge of a forest supervisor, who 
may be likened to a farm superintendent, and 
who has for his foremen several district forest 
rangers, each one in charge of large subdivisions 
of the immense timbered domain included within 
the boundaries of the forest. A National Forest 
often contains more than a million acres—a 
tract of land which inclosed in a rectangle would 
measure about 60 miles long and almost 40 miles 
wide. There are 154 National Forests in the 
United States and Alaska. 
The growing stands of timber are carefully 
managed by the Forest Service so as to insure the 
the largest possible mature timber crop perpet- 
ually to the Nation. The most important work 
in timber farming is to protect the growing forests 
from fire. On several of the high mountain peaks 
of the Oregon National Forest there are small 
lookout houses, where men are stationed at all 
times during the summer fire season to watch 
constantly over all parts of the forest for the first 
signs of smoke which indicate the forest fire. 
Telephone lines enable the observer to communi- 
cate with the district forest ranger or the forest 
supervisor in case a forest fire is discovered, and 
fire-fighting crews are dispatched at once to the 
scene of the fire as soon as it is reported by the 
