

Some Camp Stoves 
4 Pas are people who can take a 
few damp sticks, a little time 
and an unused match and turn out a 
delicious meal in camp. There are 
others, who, equipped with the latest 
thing in cooking appliances for out- 
door life, get nothing better than 
burned bacon, ashes in the coffee and 
a raw middle in every biscuit. 
old stove lid with four large hinges 
riveted to it, the longer leaves forming 
the legs. This stove, while permitting 
the presence of only one article or cook- 
ing utensil at a time, folds up into a 
space only one-half inch thick and as 
large as the diameter of the lid used. 
It can be slipped in anywhere and sey- 
eral may be used, for that matter. All 
that is necessary is to hold it over the 

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Which goes to prove that skill is 
more to be desired than skillets and 
expensive equipment of other sorts, 
when one copes with camp life. But 
just the same one should have several 
methods for cooking the camp meal, 
snugly stored away, in case of emer- 
gency. One camp site will naturally 
call for one type, another for a differ- 
ent type. It will depend upon whether 
the device used is to be secured on the 
spot, or made beforehand and _ per- 
manent, to be used again and again. 
So let us look at some of the stoves 
veterans of the trail have used. 
Space will permit only a few draw- 
ings. In figure one is shown what will 
be found a great convenience to the 
lone camper or the touring couple, who, 
packed tight in the little touring-car, 
find space precious. It consists of an 

fire and drop it. The legs fall into 
place and brace, one against the other, 
so that it will not fall even on sloping 
ground. To facilitate the cooking of 
quick meals, several holes can be drilled 
through the cast iron, but even with 
these omitted, the heavy metal main- 
tains a uniform heat, superior to sheet 
iron. After breaking camp it is only 
necessary to wrap the stove, knocked 
down, in a sheet of paper and store it 
away. There is no need of going to the 
trouble of cleaning it up. 
As a simple stove, nothing is capable 
of more universal usage, perhaps, than 
the affair shown in drawing number 
two. Here, two logs are rolled near 
together, the fire built between them, 
and two single rods of iron laid across 
their tops. By moving them closer to- 
gether or farther apart they will ac- 

commodate any size of dish. And two 
rods can be stored anywhere when 
traveling. To increase the capacity, 
four or more rods can be used instead 
of the two. Logs used for this purpose 
must be of green wood to prevent burn- 
ing away quickly. 
Drawing number three is another 
modification of the same idea where 
two gas pipes are held over the fire by 
means of four iron rods pushed into 
the ground and the upper bent ends 
set into the ends of the pipes. This 
stove, too, can be knocked down and 
stored in a small space. By setting 
two of the pipe ends farther apart than 
the others space is provided for sup- 
porting vessels of varying widths over 
the fire. 
Then there is often the necessity of 
improvising a stove out of scrap; some- 
thing found on the premises. In this 
case, nothing will fit the hour of need 
better than an old tin pail with several 
notches cut in the rim of the open end, 
and the pail turned upside down. This 
is shown in drawing four., To facilitate 
removal two holes are punched in the 
sides near the bottom, diametrically op- 
posite, and a heavy wire bent into the 
form of a bail and the ends inserted 
as shown. The fire, a small one of dry 
sticks, is first built, and then the stove 
set down over it. It will be necessary 
to lift the stove to replenish the fire, 
but, handled right, this will not be 
necessary for the light meal of bacon 
and coffee and eggs. 
Thus we have covered four types of 
stoves, each within the scope of the 
layman and costing practically nothing. 
Let us glance at a few of those which 
can be made on the spot, from material 
at hand. 
An adaptation of type two is the lay- 
ing of two logs, with green pieces of 
saplings, in place of the rods, laid 
across the top. While the sticks will 
dry out, and, in time, burn through, 
they will serve the purpose for a quick 
meal, though they will have to be re- 
placed with new ones each time. 
Of course you will have a hand axe 
at hand. With this as the only tool, a 
number of dévices can be fashioned for 
cooking over the fire. One consists of 
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