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Title: The American boys' handybook of camp-lore and woodcraft
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941
Subjects: Camping Camping -- Equipment and supplies
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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re many sorts of fires used by campers and all aredependent upon the local supply of fuel; in the deforesteddistricts of Korea the people use twisted grass for fuel, onour Western plains the hunters formerly used buffalo chipsand now they use cow chips, that is, the dry manure of cattle,with which to build their fires for cooking their meals andboiling their coffee. In the Zurn belt, in Tartary and CentralIndia cattle manure is collected, piled up like cord wood anddried for fuel. A few years ago they used corn on the cobfor firewood in Kansas. It goes without saying that buffalochips are not good for bonfires or any fire where a big flameor illumination is an object. Bonfires and Council Fires Are usually much larger than camp-fires, and may bemade by heaping the wood up in conical form (Fig. 50) withthe kindling all ready for the torch in the center of the pile. HOW TO liUILI) A FIRE 45 or the wood may be piled up log cabin style (Fig. 51) withthe kindling underneath the hrst floor.
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KKEY In both of these forms there are air spaces purposely leftbetween the sticks of wood, which msure a quick and readydraught tlie moment the flames start to flicker in the kindling. The best form of council fire is sho^v^l by Fig. 52, andkiioA^Ti as the Camp Meeting Torch Because it was from a somewhat similar devnce at a campmeeting in Florida, that the author got the suggestion for 46 C.\:^.IP-LORE AXD WOODCRAFT his torch fire. The platform is made of anything handyand is covered with a thick flooring of sod, sand or clay forthe fire-place. The tower is built exactly similar to the Boy Scout signaltowers but on a smaller scale !,Fig. 5^2). Dangee of Exploding Stones However temptmg a smooth rock may look as a con-venient spot on which a fire may be built, do not fail to spreada few shovels of sand, earth or clay on the stone as a fire bed,for the damp rock on becoming heated may generate steamand either expand with some ^^iolence or burst like a bomb-shell and scatter far and v.-

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