More Hunting Cabins

Because most hunters and fishermen travel to their cabins in automobiles, it is well to have a place to store the car. For such an arrangement, nothing could be mare serviceable than one of the various tourist cabins

Here is an attractive tourist home that can be built at small cost.

Floor plan of foregoing tourist home shows it is commodious and convenient.

described in another chapter. Such cabins frequently have car sheds or shelters built on one side as an integral part of the main structure. The cabin can, of course, be arranged inside in any convenient way. If the basic plan is a simple cabin rather than a tourist home, it should be an easy matter to build an ex­tension roof at one side to form a car shelter.

The joy of a hunting or fishing expedition can be increased by giving some attention to built-in equip­ment and to proper sanitation. Everything that was said about the desirability of pure water and proper sewage disposal applies to the hunting lodge, although it would be uneconomical in most cases to install elaborate disposal or water supply systems.

Because the fisherman may catch a bass or trout occasionally, or the hunter bag a deer or duck, some effective means of disposing of waste materials result­ing from the cleaning of such quarry should be avail­able. Fish never should be cleaned on the bank of a stream because the decaying animal matter will in­crease pollution. Likewise no one wants the cabin yard to smell like a garbage dump. Perhaps the most effec­tive way of disposing of fish and animal cleanings is to burn them. A simple incinerator can be built near the cabin, using field stones cemented with mortar or piled loosely and perhaps banked on three sides with earth. The incinerator should not be placed where wind may blow sparks on the cabin or other inflammable material. Before leaving on the day's expedition, the occupants should see that the fire is extinguished. Drowning it with water is the recommended method of making certain of this.

Here is another type of a simple tourist home that any one can build.

Floor plan of the above borne, showing the one-car garage.

Because hunting and fishing lodges are unoccupied for parts of each year, they should be equipped with strong doors and window shutters, to keep out in­truders. It is not a bad idea to provide a cap for the chimney, a cast concrete slab will do, to foil the efforts of birds and small animals that might try to invade the lodge.

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