308 FORESTANDSTREAM JUNE, 1920 
INDIAN CAMP FIRE FRAME 
T HE real camp fire is made Indian 
fashion and together with the “take- 
down folding fireplace,” as shown in illus- 
trations, a most delicious meal may be 
cooked. The frame is made of 2 sides 
of angle iron hinged at back and covered 
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J/f/E wre depending upon the 
W friends and admirers of our 
old correspondent Nessmuk to make 
this department worthy of his 
name. No man knew the woods 
better than Nessmuk or wrote of 
them with quainter charm. Many 
of his practical ideas on camping 
and “ going light" have been 
adopted by the United States Army; 
his canoe has been preserved in the 
Smithsonian Institution; and we 
hope that all good woodsmen will 
contribute to this department their 
flints and Kinks and trail-tested 
contrivances. — [ Editors. ] 
allow for a full draft. Have the larger 
pieces ready at hand and as soon as the 
blazing twigs begin to sink, add the big 
pieces, keeping them also in a criss-cross 
position. Always cut the grass away 
from the fire and make sure it is out 
before leavjng it. Other methods of fire- 
place construction are made by use of 
holes, stones, etc., but this iron frame 
is light to carry and makes camp cooking 
a genuine pleasure. 
P. P. Avery, N. J. 
HOW TO DISJOINT A ROD 
I F upon the trout stream or elsewhere 
the ferrules of your brand-new rod, 
the rod dearer to you than the apple 
of your eye the rod for which you paid 
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with Y 2 " galvanized iron mesh wire bolted 
to all sides. The projecting pieces are 
1" x A" flat iron with sharpened ends. 
The top cross pieces are held in place for 
cooking by loose fitting pins made of 
rivets and after they are used the pins 
are drawn out and frame folded up. 
The best wood to use for a fire is oak 
but in the different sections of the coun- 
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try the average dry wood is of so many 
varieties that no fixed data can be formed 
for the use of any special kind. 
Birch bark is especially good for start- 
ing the fire, also dry grass. Leaves are 
not considered of much avail, although in 
an emergency may have to be used. 
Arrange the dry twigs under the frame 
with the kindling of birch bark or dry 
grass, and always cross them so as to 
4 idU, coin of the realm, become stuck 
solidly together, then let not your heart 
be troubled. There are all kinds of ways 
of doing things. For instance, my own 
new rod became thus fastened in the 
first and second joints, upon the Prairie 
River. We tried to pull it apart, each 
and every one of us, using an amount 
of strength which would have torn a 
more poorly built fabric quite to pieces. 
Do our best, we could not start the fer- 
rules. I do not know what caused the 
joints to stick in this way. The rod went 
together with smoothness and precision, 
then we took it out to practise in the 
evening. It might have been the damp- 
ness of the air, it might have been some 
caked oil upon the ferrule, but what- 
ever the reason was we could not get 
these two joints apart. The rod stood 
thus for two days, and I thought I should 
have on my hands the problem of how 
in the world to get it home. It is only 
in such cases as this that we realize how 
limited are the spaces in civilized life. 
Take a rod disjointed and in three pieces, 
and you can carry it anywhere. Add one 
of those pieces to another and there is 
no place that you can take it whatever. 
It will not go into a sleeping car, you 
cannot get it into a carriage, you can- 
