August, 1918 
FOREST AND STREAM 
485 
The illustration shows how these wires are 
inserted in the axle. The side wires should 
be of brass or copper wire bent into a ring 
at one end, which passes through the 
ringed ends of the four upright wires 
which complete the frame. At the bottom 
of the axle bore a hole to insert the 
bracket, which is made of heavy copper or 
brass wire bent at right angles and filed 
to fit the second joint of the rod. A 
washer is soldered to the bracket. This 
dryer can be set up or taken down in a 
jiffy and is useful for changing lines on 
a reel as well as for its original purpose. 
D. M. V., New Hampshire. 
AN ALL-EMBRACING BELT OUTFIT 
H ERE is a handy belt which keeps all 
the cargo “amidships.” Attached to it 
is everything that one needs for a day’s 
fishing (excepting the rod which may be 
cut on the spot, if necessary) and also com¬ 
LIGHT WEIGHT CAMP LEGGIN’ 
IT OR camp use I wear waterproofed cot- 
1 ton trousers and get them long enough 
so that I can make a two and one-half inch 
cuff on the legs. After 
the cuff is made I un¬ 
roll it and on the 
outer side I sew two 
pieces of shoe string 
at about the place 
shown in the drawing. 
When working around 
camp I fold over the 
bottoms of the trou¬ 
sers so that the two 
strings come together, 
then tie them. When 
I want to go to town I turn up the cuffs 
and the tie strings are out of sight. 
When traveling light an extra cup is 
sometimes needed for a chance visitor. 
Then is a good time to know how to make 
a cup from an old bottle. The bottle must 
GETTING BAIT 
I F you use worms as bait when you go 
fishing, you undoubtedly have learned 
that in summer when it is very hot, it is 
difficult to find them no matter how cool 
a spot you may choose, or how far down 
you may dig. This is one of the ways I 
get my worms during hot days. 
At night after it has stormed real hard, 
or after an all day’s rain, I take a pocket 
flash-light and a tin can, then go out and 
search over the lawn. The rain seems to 
have forced them to the top, and if it has 
been a rather heavy down-pour I am sure 
to find the little, fat grubs. These prove 
to be enticing bait. 
Then the next morning I get up and go 
fishing between four and five, and general¬ 
ly come home with a good catch. 
If I have any bait left, I refreshen the 
dirt on them and bury the can in a cool, 
moist place. 
Ruth Martin, Chicago. 
plete materials for a hot mid-day meal. 
From left to right, the articles are a fold¬ 
ing landing net; a bag which holds a small 
frying pan—cut off the handle and grasp it 
with pliers—and a small tin can containing 
salt and pepper, sugar, ground coffee, each 
in its little cotton sack (well-boiled tobacco 
bags will answer) ; a slice or two of bacon 
and several pieces of buttered bread. Next 
on the belt comes a small axe; sheath 
knife; and tin box, which holds hooks, 
lines and sinkers, waterproof match box, 
and the pliers which should be a part of 
every camper’s outfit. The weight of these 
articles is so distributed as to be scarcely 
noticeable and the shoulders are not bur¬ 
dened, which is a comfort if carrying a 
creel also. The sheath for the axe is made 
of one piece of sole leather stitched on 
the edges with a flap at the top which 
buttons over. When wanted, the axe can 
be gently lifted out of the case with no 
danger of dulling the edge on anything. I 
believe in having the pocket axe as sharp 
as a razor and keeping it so. A dull pocket 
axe is little more use than a jackknife and 
many times heavier. 
H. C. H., Oakland, Calif. 
be clean and thoroughly dry before you 
begin operations on it. Then wind a cord 
around the bottle, retain one end in the left 
hand and grasp the neck of the bottle with 
the right hand. Let a companion catch 
hold of the bottom of the bottle with the 
right hand and the cord with the left hand, 
facing you. Now both get a good grip on 
the bottle and with the cord “give and 
take” like sawing wood. Keep up the mo¬ 
tion until the bottle is heated by the fric¬ 
tion of the cord, then quickly put it into a 
bucket of cold water. The bottom comes 
off clean and forms a very good cup. 
The sun pours down upon long dusty 
country roads and the hiker must beware 
of its effect. Sunstroke is no joke and a 
touch of it is hard for the people who have 
to take care of the sufferer, sometimes far 
from any help. It can be avoided. In hot 
farming country one will find plantain 
leaves growing at the sides of the roads. 
These are tapered oval in shape with long 
veins running from stem to tip. Place sev¬ 
eral of these leaves on the inside of the 
hat crown and they act as a preventive of 
sunstroke. 
Tim Ferguson, New York. 
OUTWITTING FLIES 
W HEN up at our cabin late last sum- 
er it was necessary to have a place 
to hang up meat and fish where it would 
be cool and away from flies—so with a 
couple of wooden hoops from a small bar¬ 
rel and pieces of cord, wire and cheese 
cloth, we contrived an article that when 
hung in a shady place where the breeze 
could reach it, answered our purpose ad¬ 
mirably. 
We procured three pieces of cord with 
which, after knotting them together at one 
end and affixing a wire hook, we connected 
the two hoops and then, with a suitable 
length of cheese cloth, with two edges 
sewn together and a draw-string arranged 
at one end—these were enclosed and the 
cheese cloth tied tightly at the top round 
the cords. 
R. H. Nash, Montreal, Canada. 
