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from corn or maize, parched to a golden 
brown. The Indians formerly parched the 
corn in the ashes of the campfire and then 
ground it in a wooden or stone mortal. 
Modern methods are considerably simpler. 
When preparing it for my personal use, 
after parching the corn, I grind it twice in 
a coffee mill, then pass it through an ordi¬ 
nary flour sieve to remove bran and large 
particles. Care must be taken to grind the 
corn just small enough so that it will mix 
well with water but not form a paste, as 
flour would. 
The preparation of rockahominy for a 
meal is simplicity itself. It is not cooked, 
but is either eaten dry or mixed with cold 
water to form a thin gruel. Three or four 
heaping spoonfuls in a cup of water is suf¬ 
ficient for a meal. When intended to be 
eaten dry the addition of a little milk choco¬ 
late improves the flavor and also adds to 
the nutriment. 
A surprisingly small amount is required 
for a day’s ration. During the past fall a 
friend and I were tramping in the Great 
Smoky Mountains and each day the noon 
meal for both of us consisted of a leather 
tobacco pouch three-fourths full of rocka¬ 
hominy, with the addition of one five-cent 
cake of sweet chocolate. This was ample 
for us during a hard day’s tramping and 
climbing. 
While rockahominy could hardly be rec¬ 
ommended as the sole article on one’s grub 
list, its keeping qualities, light weight and 
cheapness, in addition to its high nutritive 
value, certainly render it worthy of serious 
consideration as an emergency food. 
THE HANDY LITTLE FILE. 
In a camp kit nothing pays nearer ioo per 
cent, on the investment than io cents spent 
on a little six-inch flat file. 
Hundreds of occasions will present them¬ 
selves for its use. One not to be over¬ 
looked is the obdurate, much-abused, all¬ 
purpose axe that has refused to yield to the 
most painful coaxing of the whetstone. A 
little stroking with the file will achieve won¬ 
ders. Considering what is commonly ex¬ 
pected of an ordinary camp axe by the tyro, 
no whetstone has yet been manufactured 
that alone can keep this most necessary tool 
sharp. 
In lieu of the impossible in camp—a 
grindstone—the next best thing is the file; 
after which the whetstone, or axe stone, has 
its place in smoothing the wire edge. 
HOW TO CATCH STONE CATFISH 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
Will you kindly secure for me through 
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an answer to the following inquiry: 
Will someone please tell me how to 
catch stone catfish—the little fellows used 
for bass bait? The only way I know is 
by “bobbing” at night; that is, by using a 
small bunch of angle worms strung on 
thread, which is rather slow and unsatis¬ 
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