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RECREATION. 



Fisk's Aerating 

 Minnow Pe^il 



4@=The only- 

 Minnow Pail 

 in which Min- 

 nows can be 

 kept alive in- 

 definitely. 



Has an air 

 chamber at 

 the bottom 

 holding 260CU- 

 bic inches of 

 condensed air 

 forced in by 

 the Air Pump 

 attached, and 

 by a simple 

 rubberattach- 

 menttheairis 

 allowed to es- 

 cape into the 

 water gradu- 

 ally supply- 

 ing the fish 



with the oxygen consumed by them. One pumping 



is sufficient for ten hours. 

 Height, 1 foot; diameter, 10 inches; weight, 7K 



lbs.; water, 2% gallons; keeps 50 to 150 minnows, 



according to their size. 



IT KEEPS THEM ALIVE . 



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214 Twelfth St, Toledo, Ohio, V. S. A. 



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After a hard day's tramp, you 

 must have 



A GOOD NIGHT'S REST 



in order to fit you for the next 

 day's work. 



Better to sleep on a good bed 

 without your dinner, than sip at 

 a banquet and then sleep on the 

 cold, hard, wet ground. 

 Ycu can get 



A Recreation 



Camp Mattress 



of rubber, with valve for inflat- 

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 Addrus BECBEATION, S3 W. 24th Streri, Ntw TorlT 



Denver, Colo. 

 The Peters Cartridge Co., 



Cincinnati, Ohio: 



Dear Sirs : — I have been much inter- 

 ested in the controversy between your com- 

 pany and Mr. Shields, editor of Recreation. 

 Mr. Shields is a personal friend of mine, 

 and I much admire the earnest and disin- 

 terested fight which he is making along the 

 lines of game protection. He has many 

 warm friends throughout the land, and it 

 seems to me, as a disinterested party, that 

 you are making a mistake, from a business 

 point of view, in breaking off your rela- 

 tions with him.. No honest, fairminded 

 manufacturing concern should object to 

 criticism, if conducted in a fair spirit, or 

 take offense at it, but should rather wel- 

 come it. All people are not of the same 

 mind, or taste, even where goods are of 

 equal merit. If it were otherwise, we 

 should have but one cartridge company in 

 the country, and the same of other goods. 

 I am not one who thinks your goods aboye 

 criticism, as the following will show: ; 



Some years ago I ordered from a dealer 

 several hundred Peters shot gun car- 

 tridges, for my own use. I used a por- 

 tion of them, but the results were> en- 

 tirely unsatisfactory. Not only was Tun- 

 able to do the customary execution, but the 

 performance of the cartridge was objection- 

 able in other ways. The shell invariably 

 gave way at its junction with the base, 

 sometimes to such an extent that the base 

 was removed by the ejector, leaving the" bal- 

 ance of the shell in the chamber of the gun. 

 In not a few instances this portion of the 

 shell was forced up into the barrel of the 

 gun, leaving only the base in the chamber. 

 In nearly every case the cylinder of the 

 shell, after discharge, was found to be con- 

 siderably mutilated, being sometimes ripped 

 open, arid often perforated in many places 

 by particles of unburned powder, or other 

 substances. I was using a high grade Le- 

 fever hammerless gun, and the escape "of 

 gas into the breech was so great that I 

 decided to forego the use of these car- 

 tridges after a portion had been used.- I 

 gave away the balance, except 2 boxes, 

 which I still have on hand, to friends of 

 mine who I thought were not very dis- 

 criminating. I have never made these facts 

 public, but I think you ought not to be too 

 sensative to a little criticism. 



A. Whitehead. 



As I have fewer opportunities to smell 

 powder in the fields, a magazine like Rec- 

 reation appeals to me more and more. 

 Nothing is quite so interesting < as stories 

 dealing with sports requiring skill and en- 

 durance such as once enlisted my best 

 efforts. Recreation has a legitimate field 

 of action; a field that will grow wider 

 each year, and the magazine keeps in ad- 

 vance of the times. May 1903 bring you 

 a full measure of those things men con- 

 sider desirable. 

 - FrD; Blake, Clay Center, Kan. ' 



