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persons a 12 x 14 is commonly used ; but a 14 x 14 with 
4-foot walls and 9-foot center has double the head-room 
of the standard 12 x 14, and 2 y 2 feet more space between 
cots, if these are set lengthwise of the tent, two on a side. 
“Before selecting a tent, consider the number of people 
to occupy it, and their dunnage, and the furniture. Then 
draw diagrams of floor and elevation of various sizes, 
putting in the cots, etc., according to scale; so you can 
get just what you want, no more, no less. 
Camp Sanitation 
“Nothing is cleaner, sweeter, wholesomer, than a wild- 
wood unspoiled by man, and few spots are more disgust- 
ing than a “piggy” camp, with slops thrown everywhere, 
empty cans and broken bottles littering the ground, and 
organic refuse left festering in the sun, breeding disease 
germs, to be spread abroad by the swarms of flies. I 
have seen one of nature’s gardens, an ideal health resort, 
changed in a few months by a logging crew into an 
abomination and a pest hole where typhoid and dysentery 
wrought deadly vengeance. 
“Destroy at once all refuse that would attract flies. 
Or bury it where they cannot get at it. 
“Fire is the absolute disinfectant. Burn all solid 
kitchen refuse as fast as it accumulates. When a can 
of food is emptied toss it on the fire and burn it out, then 
drop it in a sink hole that you have dug for slops and un- 
burnable trash, and cover it with earth or ashes so no 
mosquitoes can breed in it after a rainfall. 
“The sink should be on the down hill side of camp, 
and where it cannot pollute the water supply. Sprinkle 
kerosene on it or burn it out frequently with a brush 
fire. * * *” 
The Latrine 
One of the first tasks of the camper is to dig a trench 
for a latrine and build a screen around it. The latrine 
