
ee RECREATION. 

O YOU EVER 
Hunt? Fish? Paddle a Canoe? 
Explore? Prospect ? Climb Hills 
or Sail a Yacht ? 


If so you have had trouble in starting a 
fire, or in keeping a fire, especially in bad 
weather. In cold weather or wet weather, 
you have wished you could have a fire in @ 
your tent to warm you, to dry your cloth- 
ing and your bedding. 
THE PRIMUS 
OIL STOVE 
remedies all such difficulties. It cures all 
the ills that campers are heirto. Itisthe 
one thing needful to make camp life a 
dream of Elysium. 








Wickless Blue Flame 
Kerosene-Burning Non-explosive $ 
The features which make an oil-burning stove Perfect, are Safety, Simplicity, 
Efficiency, Economy, Durability, Cleanliness, all of which are Perfectly embodied 
in the Primus. 
The Primus has no wick, hence its perfect combustion. 
The Primus burns azy grade kerosene. The flame can be regulated at will. 
The Primus develops a heat of 2,100° Fahrenheit. ; 
The Primus will burn, at its full heat, for five consecutive hours on a consumption of 
only one guart of kerosene. In other words, Ome-fifth guart per hour, at a cost of less than 
The Primus burns every-day kerosene, without a 
wick, with a clear, blue, smokeless and sootless flame. 
The Primus is Positively Nen-Explosive. 
The Oil Tank Cannot be Filled While Burning. 
The Primus While Burning May be Turned Come 
pletely Over Without the Slightest Exposure to 
Danger. 
ere The Burner Lights Without Smoke, The Flame is 
DOUBLE STOVE FOR YACHTS Positively Odorless and Sootless. 
It is by no means probable that any reader of RECREATION will ever give the Primus so severe a 
test as did the celebrated Arctic explorer, Fridtjof Nansen, on his famous voyage. His ship, the 
Fram, was equipped with Primus stoves, and when he left the ship to make his ‘‘ dash to the Pole” on 
sledges, a Primus went with him. The following extract from ‘‘ Farthest North” gives, in the ex- 
plorer’s own words, his estimate of its value: 
Vol. II., page 128: ‘‘ For the heating was used a gas-petroleum 
lamp known as the Primus, in which the heat turns the petroleum 
into gas before it is consumed. By this means it renders the 
combustion unusually complete. Numerous experiments made 
by Professor Torup in his laboratory proved that the cooker in 
ordinary circumstances yielded 90 to 93 per cent. of the heat 
which the petroleum consumed should, by combustion, theo- 
retically evolve. A more satisfactory result, I think, it would be 
impossible to obtain. 
‘‘ As fuel, my choice fell on petroleum. Alcohol does not by 
any means generate so much heat in comparison with its weight 
as petroleum when the latter is entirely consumed as was the case 
in the lamp used by us. We took with us rather more than 4 
gallons, and this quantity lasted us more than 120 days, enabling 
us to cook two hot meals a day and melt an abundance of water.”’ 
An Alaskan prospector, who has used a Primus for several 
months, writes to a friend thus: 
“Our ‘Primus’ isa gem. A quart of kerosene lasts a week 
and cooks three meals a day for us. When it rains and is damp 
and cool we use it in the tent. Having perfect control over the 
amount of heat it gives out, it is no trouble to care for; nosmoke 
ot odor as in other kerosene stoves.” 



















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Write for circulars and full particulars. Mention RECREA- No. 103 cone 
TION, Address The type used by Nansen ° 
THE PRIMUS COMPANY ‘"Xew' york. NY. 









