208 
FOREST AND STREAM 
April, 1920 
Q/fe First Sign of Spring 
Don’t 
Wait for 
Warm 
Weather 
The golf course isn’t in good shape yet, 
the tennis courts are soft, the roads are 
muddy and it’s too cold on the water — 
but don’t stay inside waiting for warm 
weather. 
Don’t forego sport at any time of the year. 
Get out-of-doors. 
Go to Your Gun Club 
next Saturday Afternoon 
Thrilling! If you have never shot over a 
trap you will never know how thrilling. 
Don’t miss it. Trap-shooting will give 
you more real fun and sport than you can 
imagine. 
There is a gun club near you — go and 
watch a shoot. Try your hand — and you’ll 
shoot regularly. 
And to get the best results use a load that 
you can depend upon — the same, day in 
and day out. 
Smokeless Shotgun Powders 
are fast, close-shooting, uniform. That is 
why they are used by seven out of every 
ten sportsmen — for 118 years the standard 
of America. 
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, 
Inc. 
Sales Dept.: Sporting Powder Division 
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 
SOME POINTS ON 
FLORIDA HUNTING 
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should preferably be open at both ends, 
for then, on hot nights, you can open up 
wide and have the benefit of whatever 
breeze there is. The “A” tent, while not 
possessing quite so much head room, 
size for size, as the wall tent, is a very 
comfortable shelter, and has the ad- 
vantage of being lighter in weight and 
not requiring so much rigging when it is 
pitched. A fly is a mighty handy thing 
to have along, but is not absolutely nec - 
essary if your tent is of good material. 
At one time I used home made bed- 
ding, my mattress being a heavy quilt 
doubled and sewed, quilt fashion, with a 
sail needle and heavy cord. However, I 
believe that the ideal bed consists of a 
6 pound Kapok mattress, a small pillow, 
a very light double blanket and a heavy 
double blanket. Roll these up in a 6' x 7' 
packcloth, tie the roll securely with a 
piece of sash cord, and you are fixed. 
Your spare clothing should be rolled up 
with your bedding, where it will be out 
of the way and protected during trans- 
portation. To make your bed more com- 
fortable, cut a supply of the ever plenti- 
ful palmetto fans and arrange them 
thus: make the layer about 18" at the 
head and 8" at the foot. Over this goes 
your packcloth and then your mattress. 
A kerosene lantern is the usual camp 
light, and a can of kerosene goes along 
in the wagon box. I also carry an army 
candle lantern to use in the tent, and 
find it excellent. 
A full sized axe, an engineer’s 
hatchet, a saw, and a shovel should all 
go into the wagon. They are all handy 
in the woods, and, as there is room for 
them, they should be taken along. Be 
sure and carry a few big nails. 
For preparing camp eats a nested 
cooking outfits beats anything I have 
ever seen. An aluminum outfit is to be 
preferred, but, where a bit of extra 
weight doesn’t matter, the retinned steel 
ones are sufficient, and far cheaper. I 
have read of hunters having trouble with 
the handles of the frying pans of a 
nested outfit. I have never experienced 
any with mine, but my pans have the 
“Miller” style folding handle and not the 
detachable kind, which seems to be the 
troublesome one. 
I have an aluminum baker, to which 
I added a camp broiler, and an outfit for 
four persons ; also a butcher knife, a par- 
ing knife, a cooking fork, a cooking 
spoon and two pans. After using it one 
time I discarded the small frying pan 
and the small cooking pot. Two pots 
and one frying pan have proved sufficient 
for my every need, and a folding canvas 
water bucket of three gallons capacity 
added to the outfit comes in much han- 
dier than the utensils I discarded. 
For packing my outfit I use the largest 
size fibre packing case obtainable, for 
the reason that I am then enabled to 
pack, in addition to the outfit, dish 
towels, mops, scouring powder, soap, and 
a bit of salt, pepper, spice, tea and a few 
other odds and ends. 
While most campers use the aluminum 
