string is placed on the first joint, I find the parcel weighs seven pounds. Each person will be different, but you can find out your own power of lifting, and then you will know exactly for the future.
FIRELESS COOKER
A jolly useful thing for saving coal, saving time, and saving money is a Fireless Cooker.
The Fireless Cooker is a very valuable help to you in your enjoyment of camp, because once you have started the food cooking you shove it in the Fireless Cooker, you press the lid, and the Fireless Cooker does the rest!
And you can leave the dinner to cook itself while you go out and play camp games.
And so, too, in your own home, once you have started the food cooking you can put out the fire, and thus save fuel or gas, and let the Fireless Cooker finish the job for you.
Construction of Box
Obtain a large wooden box, such as a soap box. Line with double newspaper. Fill the box to within two or three inches of the top with very tightly packed hay, scoop out of the centre of the hay a cavity large enough to hold the cooking utensil. Make a cushion of house flannel to fit the top of the box exactly and stuff it tightly with hay.
Rules for Use of Fireless Cooker
Use saucepans with tightly fitting lids and short handles. Those made of aluminum or earthenware are pref-
