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8o BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA and many hundreds of times, on prairie and in forest, I found this sufficient. A more elaborate camp kitchen is made of four green logs (aspen preferred), set 3 inches apart at one end, 10 at the other, with a fire on the ground and between, flattened on top and in the middle. The pots sit on the opening between the top logs. Sometimes stones of right size and shape 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, Green log grate more elaborate camps have a hanger as below, on which are pot-hooks of green wood. In wet weather, an axeman can always get dry wood by cutting into a standing dead tree, or on the under side of down timber that is not entirely on the ground. On the prairies and plains, since buffalo chips are no more, we use horse and cow chips, kindled with dry grass and roots of sage-brush, etc. To keep a fire alive all night, bank the coals: i,e., bury them in ashes. Always put out the lire on leaving camp. It is a crime to leave a burning Ure, Use buckets of water, if need he.