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FOREST AND STREAM 
April, 1921 
AUTO KAMP KOOK OVEN 
Pits the two burner Kamp 
Kook Kit Measures 12" x 
11" x 11" open, folds up to 
12" x 11" x 2". Bakes perfect- 
ly and takes up very little 
room. 
Write for complete informa- 
tion. 
Cook and eat in comfort — enjoy 
real home cooked food, along with 
the pleasures of camping. 
Protect yourself against the rainy 
day when firewood is at a 
premium. 
Auto Kamp Kook Kit burns gas- 
oline — the same grade used in 
your car — gives steady hot blue 
flame that a thirty-mile wind will 
not blow out. Folds up like, a 
suitcase with all equipment in- 
side. 
If your dealer cannot supply you, write 
direct for information and prices 
Prentiss- Wabers Stove Co. 
4 Spring Street Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. 
To Complete the Vacation 
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“Osprey” 
‘Dardevlet’ 
“It took me six years to find out about this 
bait." — Lou J. Eppinger. 
“Yes, sir: that’s the gospel truth. 
‘‘Six years ago a fellow came Into my sport- 
ing goods store asking for a split ring and a 
treble hook. 
‘‘I thought nothing about it, but pretty soon 
in come some more fellows for more split rings 
and treble hooks. 
“Season after season they kept coming, more 
and more of ’em each year, until my curiosity 
was aroused and I'd ask 'em what in thunder 
they were doin' with ’em. No answer, but a 
knowin' look and a wise wink. 
“Well, sir. I knew they had somethin' awful 
good or they wouldn't be keepin' so mum, so 
I got to nosin' around and finally discovered 
that one of my old customers had been mak- 
ing these ‘mystery spoons' and selling them to 
his friends, until finally 'most everybody in 
Detroit was usin' them. 
“Last summer I verified a report that 36 
pike had been caught on this spoon at Echo 
Lake, Mich., in one morning! 
“So I am selling the whole bait now — and 
I call it the OSPREY DARDEVLE casting 
and trolling spoon. If your dealer hasn't 
gotten them yet. I'll send it anywhere in the 
United States or Canada, postpaid, for 85 
cents. Made in 26 different finishes, all 
proven successful: the one shown above is one 
of the killers. Made of solid brass; weight, 
1 ounce; length, ZVz inches; width, 1 inch. 
“It wiggles and wobbles and whirls. 
Casts farther than other baits, and with less 
effort. Rides high or low, controlled with 
your rod and reel." 
Send Today for Your Osprey 
Silk Casting Line 
“OSPREY" lines are waterproofed so they 
won’t rot. are braided so they shoot thru the 
guides like greased lightning, and are guar- 
anteed to stand anything excepting rough or 
cracked guides. “Osprey" lines have stood 
the test for ten years. 
Present Prices Are: 
15-lb test. $2.00; 20-lb. test, $2.75 
23-lb. test. $3.00; 26-lb. test, 3.25 
30-lb. test, 3.75; 12-lb test, spec’l, 50 yds., 
$1.65. (Postpaid.) 
LOU J. EPPINGER 
310 E. Congress St. Dept. O Detroit, Mich. 
PUBLIC SALE 
Uncle Sam buys only best 
quality — you do likewise. W© 
offer you this first quality mer- 
chandise at auction bargain 
prices. . 
Heavy Wool Socks $ .50 
Heavy Wool Underwear... 2.00 
Medium Weight Underwear 1.35 
Winter Caps -75 
Winter Mittens 1-00 
Olive Drab Shirts 4.50 
Heavy Sweaters 6.50 
Rubber Boots 4.50 
Wool Breeches 2.50 
and 5000 other articles for fall 
and winter wear. 
SEIND FOR ARMY AND NAVY 
FOLDER 123 
ARMY &. NAVY STORE CO. 
245 W. 42d St., New York 
Largest Camp and Military Out- 
fitters 
COPPER CANS 
Copper 
With Screw 
Caps. Highest 
Crade Cans in 
fhe w orld. IVlail 
Orders Shipped 
at once in Hain 
NX ood Boxes. 
Money Back 
if Can Does 
Not Suit. 
Ci rcular F ree. 
Hydrometers, 
$1.50 
COPPER TUBING in Coils per 
20c; H-inch, 25c; ^-inch, 35c. 
^-im. 3 Sc; H-ln. 50c; 5^-tn. 75c. 
STANDARD METAL WORKS— 6 BEACH ST. 
P. 0. BOX ESSEX 62 H BOSTON. MASS. 
PLAN FUTURE HOME NOW 
Send for Stillwell Building 
Books with Economy Plans 
of new California Style, suit* 
able for any climate. Famoua 
for comfort and beautj. 
“Representative Cal. 
Homes” 
6 to 10 Booms 
51 Plans— $1. 
“The New Colonials” 
5 to 12 Booms 
60 Plan*— $1. 
“West Coast 
Bungalows” 
5 to 7 Rooms 
60 one-story — $1. 
S PECIAL OFFER: Send $2.5U for all 3 above rnrp 
books and get book of 80 Special Plans, a zV EJ-i 
also Garage folder. 
Extra— 43 “Little Bungalows,” 3 to 8 Rooms — 50 eta. 
Money back if not satisfied. 
E. W. STILLWELL & CO., ARCHITECTS, 
611 California Bldg:., Los Angeles 
FISHERMEN— HUNTERS— CAMPERS 
We have a limited supply of first-class merchandise 
which we offer at a bargain. Send for circular. 
REAL BARGAINS IN ARMY GOODS. 
Hip Boots, full length, sizes 7 to 12, pair $4.25 
Knee Boots, sizes 7 to 12, pair 3.50 
Olive Drab Shirts, heavy weight, sizes l4'/ 2 to 17.. 4.25 
Olive Drab Shirts, light weight, sizes 141/2 to 17.. 4.00 
Wool Blankets, olive drab. 66x84, each 4.25 
Wool Blankets, grey. 58x84, each 4.00 
All goods delivered postpaid to any point in the U. S. 
on receipt of price. 
GUARANTEE — If not satisfactory Money Refunded. 
THE CORNEL TRADING CO.. 59 4th Ave.. New York 
WHY NOT S p r ingj 
Summer and Fall gathering 
butterflies, insects? I buy 
hundreds of kinds for col- 
lections. Some worth $1 to 
$7 each. Simple outdoor 
work with my instructions, pictures, price list. 
Get posted now. Send 10c (NOT STAMPS) 
for my Illustrated Prospectus. Mr. Sinclair, 
Dealer in Insects, Dept. 9, Ocean Park, Cal. 
the traffic in furs, particularly in beaver 
skins, should establish a sanctuary 
where the beaver might pass his days 
in peace, at once a monument of the 
past and a creature of absorbing intrin- 
sic interest. 
O THER states, suddenly alive to the 
threatened extinction of the 
beaver, have taken steps to pre- 
vent it, and reports indicate that more 
than one of them have much the same 
problem on their hands that now con- 
fronts the state of New York. Washing- 
ton, Montana, Wisconsin, Minnesota 
and Michigan are states where com- 
plaint has been made of the ravages of 
the sacrosanct beaver. 
Ranchers of the Walla Walla Valley 
in Washington estimate their annual 
losses from the beaver’s activities at 
$15,000. The damage in the Walla Wal- 
la Valley was due almost entirely to an 
acquired taste of the beaver for the bark 
of fruit trees, although he sometimes 
made a pest of himself also by damming 
rrigation ditches and diverting priceless 
water. It is a fruit-raising country and 
the flavor of the succulent bark in the 
orchards proved to be something beaver 
palates could not resist. Fruit trees 
have been girdled by hundreds. Many 
of them were cut into suitable lengths 
to adorn the shelves of the beaver’s sub- 
marine pantry. Forty prune trees were 
levelled in one orchard. 
One beaver dam in the Walla Walla 
Valley has as its retaining timber a 
cottonwood twenty-four inches in diam- 
eter which the furry choppers attacked 
nightly with their teeth until they had 
felled it across the stream. That is a 
larger tree than the beaver generally 
tackles. A tree eighteen inches or so 
in diameter, such as the birches shown 
in the accompanying illustrations, is as 
large as is ordinarily seen in the Adi- 
rondacks hearing the marks of beavers’ 
teeth. 
An experiment said to have been con- 
ducted recently in a zoological park 
shows the persistency with which a sin- 
gle beaver may stick to a task that looks 
big enough for an entire village. The 
beiaver selected for the experiment set 
to work at noon on a tree stub two feet, 
six inches in diameter and twelve feet 
in height. With brief respites which he 
spent in his pond, he gnawed at the tree 
for about five hours, first girding it 
about a foot above the ground. At the 
end of the five hours the stub was tot- 
tering on a mere sliver. Then the 
beaver buckled down to his task with 
redoubled vigor. A moment later as the 
fibres cracked, he scampered away and 
was well out of danger when the stub 
fell. He worked at the stub at inter- 
vals through the night and before dawn 
had cut it into three sections, two of 
which he rolled into his pond. 
In forest regions the heaver cuts more 
poplar and birch than any other wood, 
and, for the most part, selects trees no 
bigger than a man’s wrist in circum- 
ference. Such saplings as those shown 
clipped neatly off in the illustration 
form the heaver’s favorite diet and the 
freeled wands which are the crumbs from 
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