
Sleeping-Bag for One 
M Y sleeping bag is made of one piece 
of canvas with the seam on top. 
t measures 36” by 76”; at the foot end 
a piece 6” wide is sewed in the full 
width of the bag to the top and bottom 
edges. This piece has a slip at each end 
and rings sewed on three inches from 
the corners. Along the full width of 
the top edge is sewed a piece 8” wide, 
holding two rings. 
The bedding is a quilt of wool batting 
made in two sections. The bottom is 
longer and narrower than the top and 
it requires 4 yards of denim 36” wide, 
GFEXUEEE 


Top of Bag 
35" wide 
5 feet long 


while the top requires 3% yards, each 
section contains 3 lbs. of wool batting. 
The denim is marked with a pencil 
where the yarn knots are to be, then the 
wool is spread on one-half of the 
material and the other end turned up 
on top of it and the edges sewed with 
thread. By marking, it makes the quilt- 
ing easier and the knots evenly spaced 
will make a neat looking job. When 
complete the top section is 35” wide 
and the bottom is 32” wide. 
Next they are sewed together along 
the side edges. At the foot end, insert 
a piece of wool blanket 6” wide, sewed 
in all around. The idea of this is to 
give the feet the freedom required when 
one rolls on one’s back during the night, 
then the toes will not be cramped. At 
the entrance sew a piece of wool 
blanket 2 feet wide along the top edge. 
This flap has a slit in it and on very 
cold nights, turn it down over the head 
through the slit. It surely keeps the 
cold out. To get the batting within, 
tie two 4 foot pieces of rope in the 
rings at the top of the bag each to a 
fixed support. Lay the bedding on the 
ropes with the foot end within this en- 
trance, then by running the arms up 
through the slits at the foot end of the 
case, the bedding can be pulled inside 
and the rings tied together at the bot- 
tom. 
JIM FERGUSON. 

Radiator Coffee 
THOSE who travel by automobile do- 
ing their own cooking en route are 
very apt to overlook an instant and 
ready source of hot water, that con- 
tained in the radiator. There are sev- 
eral gallons there, ready for coffee, 
other cooking, a hot bath or other uses 
if one only takes advantage of it. 
Don’t think for a moment that the 
use of the usual ill smelling mixture 
of rusty water, grease and gasoline 
found in the average automobile radi- 
ator is recommended or intended. A 
radiator should never be in such a con- 
dition anyway, but obviously cannot be 
if the water is to be used for domestic 
purposes. If the inside of the radiator 
is as clean as the inside of a cooking 
utensil or domestic water heater the 
water will be as fit to use as though it 
came from either of these, and inci- 
dentally the engine operation will be 
improved. 
To clean the radiator dissolve one- 
half pound of common lye in five gal- 
lons of water, straining it through a 
cloth if necessary to insure a clean 
solution. Drain the radiator when hot 
and replace with the lye solution and 
run the engine about ten minutes. 
Drain off lye solution and fill radiator 
with clean water, run with this for ten 
minutes to wash out lye and again refill 
with clean water. Try the water next 
day to see if it is clean and pure for 
cooking, if it isn’t repeat the internal 
cleaning process. There are other ways 
of cleaning the radiator besides lye, 
but the lye method given above is the 
proven and safe way generally recom- 
mended by auto manufacturers. Of 
course, if leaks develop after cleaning 
it is due to the fact that they were 
there originally anyway, but had been 
plugged with dirt. Have them properly 
repaired by soldering. If grease gets 
in the water, not unlikely with ‘cars 
having thermo-syphon circulation such 
as the Ford, find out why and where 
and stop it, it’s probably around the 
water pump. 
Once properly cleaned out and prop- 
erly cared for, which means that if 
you use it for domestic supply en route 
the water should be changed daily, the 
auto radiator will be found a conveni- 
ent and ever ready source of supply. 
The nicest way to get it out is to slip 
a little rubber hose over the end of the 
drain cock, then the water can be con- 
ducted to a conveniently set pail. 
Now we come to the true radiator 
coffee, invention of Wing Hop, capable 
Chink cook for the L-O ranch. Wing’s 
chuck wagon is a flivver truck and the 
boys know that when it has bumped its 
way through sage brush, gullies, badger 
holes and such minor obstructions that 
there will unfailingly be hot coffee 
awaiting them on their arrival. Wing’s 
method is to make a strong liquid ex- 
tract of coffee by boiling powdered 
coffee down in water, (any of the pre- 
pared “instant” coffee pastes should 
serve as well). Formula, one radiator 
full of clean water, one ketchup bottle 
full of coffee extract, one hour’s driving 
with the Ford truck. Drain into cof- 
fee pot for appearance’s sake and 
serve hot. 
VAN ALLEN LYMAN, 
Casmalia, Calif. 
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