REFRIGERATORS FOR THE 
SUMMER CAMP 
M any campers have no doubt had 
the annoying experience of finding 
the bacon soft and oily and the bread 
completely dried out. If they were lucky 
enough to have purchased in the early 
mormng from some farmer some fresh 
milk and butter, by noon the butter was 
a liquid and the milk a paste. 
After some thought I have discovered 
a plan to keep the butter hard and the 
bacon cool and fresh. On plate No. I 
is a sketch of an iceless refrigerator, one 
that I have used and found very satis- 
A is a water-tight tin, chosen sutti- 
ciently large enough to meet all demands, 
with a top similar to those used on 
Crisco, Karo or lard tins. This is se- 
curelv weighted ( R) so that no sudden 
overnight flood will carry it away. To 
the top is tied a stick (C) with a bright- 
colored cloth nailed to it so it will not 
be lost and may be seen more easily. 
I have found that in the hottest 
weather food will remain cool and whole- 
some under water. 
Of course, it would be rather foolish to 
attempt to put bread and similar foods 
in the underwater refrigerator, so I have 
devised refrigerator No. II. This is 
merely a wooden box set in a mound of 
cool earth, situated so the sun does not 
strike it. The front part (Plate 2) is a 
thick board so arranged that the three 
sticks allow it to fit closely and yet move 
up and down with ease. Food put in 
this should be wrapped up secuply, and 
you will find that it is a great improve- 
ment on the usual method of just putting 
the food in the shade. 
I have also constructed another highly 
efficient refrigerator, composed of a 
water-tight barrel with a hatch on the 
top and a shelf around it, as in Plate 4. 
This will be found to hold a great 
amount of food and will keep it cool 
and fresh. It can be used on a lake, 
where on^ can row out and anchor it in 
deep water. 
Inside this barrel shelves may be built 
for the contents, and one may rest as- 
sured that if the hatch is closed your 
next day’s meals will be fresh and whole- 
some. 
Townley Price, Jr., New Jersey. 
THE HARNESS-SUCKER LURE 
T he sucker-minnow, from four to 
seven inches long, with its soft 
flesh and lack of prickly fins, is an 
ideal bait for pickerel — especially big 
pickerel — during July and August and 
early September, when they are lazily 
inactive, and “teething” as some authori- 
ties claim. 
Take your sucker-minnow out of 
your minnie-pail or fish-box and kill it — 
for a few casts will kill the bait anyway 
— then take a foot of small fish-line, 
about perch-line size, and tie the middle 
of it into two hard knots on the under 
side just behind the gills. Then draw 
the two loose ends up to the near-end 
of the under jaw and there tie two more 
hard knots; then pass the remaining 
loose ends up around the gill and after 
tying them snugly into two more knots, 
clip off the remaining ends, and you have 
your bait properly harnessed, with the 
mouth shut and in shape to stand almost 
any amount of reasonable casting with- 
out ragging or tearing apart. 
Now hook your frog-hook up through 
the snout from the under side, and just 
behind the two knots there at the near 
end of the lower jaw, which will pre- 
vent your hook from tearing out. 
Use this bait with a good reel and 
casting-rod. Anchor your boat in the 
deep water or holes where the big pick- 
erel lay almost asleep during hot summer 
months. Cast the harnessed-sucker far 
out and allow it to sink — you don’t need 
any sinker — to the bottom, and then reel 
in very, very slowly so your bait will 
just be moving all the time and that’s 
about all. 
When you feel a tug at your lure. 
stop reeling immediately but do not at- 
tempt to hook the fish as yet — for nine 
times out of ten the big pickerel will 
swim slowly in at the bait from the side, 
gently press the lure between its jaws 
and stop a few moments before swim- 
ming away a few yards, there to slowly 
turn the bait so as to swallow it head 
first, as nature has taught, to avoid fins. 
When perhaps two or maybe three 
minutes have passed and you feel sure 
from the gentle twitching of your line 
that the fish has swallowed your bait 
down pretty well, give a quick jerk on 
your pole and hook him. 
If you can’t get a sucker-minnow, a 
skinned perch will do as a poor substi- 
tute. But the harnessed-sucker will win 
at this particular season when all other 
lures fail if you will give the fish plenty 
of time to swallow the bait. 
A. H. Gardiner, Wisconsin. 
A CHIGGER PREVENTATIVE 
A nyone who has had occasion to be 
outdoors in the south, during the 
spring and summer months, would be 
soon brought to realize one tremendous 
drawback to any such excursions, caused 
by the depredation of one’s anatomy of 
from a hundred to a thousand of small 
creatures locally known as the “chigger” 
“red bug” and to some extent the “har- 
vest mite.” 
It seems hardly fair to withhold from 
the outdoor population a specific preven- 
tative that can be relied upon on all oc- 
casions to absolutely prevent chiggers 
touching one. The remedy is to simply 
dust one’s clothing with ordinary flowers 
of sulphur, and preferably the finely- 
ground sulphur that is used by horticul- 
turists to dust their plants. This latter 
does not grit, seems to stick better and 
is not unpleasant in feeling. 
For ordinary exposure simply dust 
around one’s sleeves, socks, and if in high 
grass or shrubbery, around the collar, 
but the more general the application the 
safer the prevention. 
Edw. a. Belsterling, Texas. 
