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1 90 WoOdctaft Manual for Giris If you have no birch bark, it is a good plan to shave a dry soft- wood stick. leaving all the shavings sticking on the end in a fuzz, like a Hopi prayer stick. Several of these make a sure fire kindler. Fine splinters may be made quickly by hammering a small stick with the back of die axe. La the case of a small party and hasty camp, you need nothing but a pot hanger of green wood for a complete kitchen, and n^any hundreds of times, on prairie and in forest, I found this sufficient. A more complete camp grate is made of four green logs (aspen preferred) placed as^in the illustration. Set the top logs 3 inches apart at one end, lo inches at the other. The top logs should be flattened in the middle of their top sides — to hold the pot which sits on the open- ing between the top logs. The fire of course is built Green Log Grate jjjj jj^g ground, xmder the logs. Sometimes stones of right WBe and shi^ are used instead of the logs, but the stones do not contribute anything to the heat and are less manageable. In addition to this log grate, more elaborate camps have a kitchen equipped with a hanger as below, on which are pot hooks of green wood. In wet weather, an axeman can always get dry wood cuttmg mto a standing dead tree, or on the under side <rf down timber that is not en^rely on the ground.