RECREA TION. 



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DO YOU EVER HUNT? 



FISH? 



PROSPECT ? 

 PADDLE A CANOE? 



or 



EXPLORE ? 

 CLIflB HILLS? 

 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 heir to. It is the one thing needful to 

 make camp life a dream of Elysium. 



WICKLESS BLUE FLAME 



KEROSENE-BURNING NON-EXPLOSIVE 



No. 103 PRIMUS 



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 any grade kerosene. The flame can be regulated at will. 



The Primus develops a heat of 2,ioo° Fahrenheit. 



The Primus will burn, at its full heat, for five consecutive hours on a consumption of 

 only one quart of kerosene. In other words, one=fifth quart per hour, at a cost of less than 

 one cent. 



The Primus burns every=day kerosene, without a wick, with a clear, blue, 

 smokeless and sootless flame. 



The Primus is Positively Non-Explosive. 



The Oil Tank Cannot be Filled While Burning. 



The Primus While Burning May be Turned Completely Over Without the 

 Slightest Exposure to Danger. 



The Burner Lights Without Smoke. The Flame is 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 follow- 

 ing extract from " Farthest North " gives, in the explorer'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 combus- 

 tion, theoretically 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 con- 

 sumed 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* is a 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 ; no smoke or odor 

 as in other kerosene stoves." 



Write for circulars and full particulars. Mention Recreation. Address 



THE PRIMUS CO. 



197 Fulton Street - - New York, N. Y. 



