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the most useful advice on fishing, hunting or camping subjects. 
To the second best will be given a copy of Nessmuk’s great book. Woodcraft. 
VITAL NECESSITIES FOR THE 
CAMPER. 
Want a Ditty Bag, Poncho, Map et al? 
Here’s How to Go About it. 
Contributed by L. Sylvan Rosenberg. 
HE three things that are absolutely 
essential to a “woodser’s” outfit are: 
maps, poncho and ditty bag. Many of 
us campers carry our maps in some slovenly 
way, most of us buy our ponchos at the 
sporting goods store and nearly four-fifths 
of us never carry a ditty bag. 
In as few words as possible, I will ex¬ 
plain how maps should be put up and prop¬ 
erly waterproofed, how a home-made pon¬ 
fully. Now run along to your dry goods 
dealer and procure one yard of heaviest 
unbleached sheeting. Next in order comes 
white paste; a ten cent bottle will be suf¬ 
ficient. Lastly, get a small roll (io yards 
long) of transparent gummed cloth tape 
% inches wide, obtainable at Dennison 
Manufacturing Co.’s stores or at any re¬ 
liable stationery store. With your finger, 
take a generous lump of the white paste 
and rub it on smoothly over the back of 
the map section. Paste this map section 
on to the sheeting cloth, using a ruler or 
other smooth straight thing with which to 
make the paper adhere evenly to the cloth. 
Now cut the cloth around very close to 
cho is made, and last, but not least, how 
to make up that something that made the 
all-beloved woodsman “Nessmuk” famous 
—a ditty bag. So here goes. 
To begin with, the best maps, if they 
have already been surveyed, are those 
made by the U. S. Geological Survey at 
Washington, D. C. They are i 6 x /2 by 20 
inches and are on a scale of approximately 
one mile to an inch and show every trail, 
buckboard road, watercourse camp and 
many other features of use to a traveler. 
Each map is divided into nine rectangles, 
each 4 x A inches wide by 5% inches long. 
Cut out these nine rectangles very care¬ 
the paper. Do likewise to the other eight 
squares. 
As the map section now stands, the cloth 
at the ends will fray and the ends of the 
paper will become “un-pasted.” To pre¬ 
vent this, the transparent gummed tape is 
used all around the edges. For the tops 
of all the map squares, you’ll need 18 strips 
4Y2 inches long and for the sides, 18 strips 
5% inches long. Put some white paste on 
the gummed tape (even though it is glued) 
and paste it on to the map section, keep¬ 
ing in mind that half the width of the 
tape goes on the map side and the other 
half on the cloth side. The maps are 
