FOREST AND STREAM 
[Sept. 29, 1906. 
482 
THE ROBERTS SAFETY LAUNCH AND YACHT BOILER. 
THE ROBERTS SAFETY WATER TUBE BOILER 
Nearly 1500 in use. 250 pounds of steam. Handsome catalogue free 
WORKS: RED BANK. New Jersey. 
Cable Address: Bruniva, New York. Telephone Address: 599 Cortlandt. 
COMPANY, 39 and 41 Cortlandt Street, New York. 
Mullins “Get There” 
Unequaled for use in very shallow water or through 
tangled grass and reeds. Thousands are in use, and 
endorsed by sportsmen everywhere as the lightest, most 
comfortable and safest duck boats built. 
Length 14 feet., beam 36 in. Painted dead grass 
color. Price $20.00. Send for complete catalogue of 
the celebrated Mullins Steel Boats for Hunting and Fishing, 
Bow Boats, Motor Boats, etc. All orders promptly filled. 
The W. H. Mullins Co., 126 Franklin St., Salem, Ohio. 
DAN KIDNEY SON, West De Pere, Wis. 
Builders of fine Pleasure and Hunting Boats, Canoea, 
Gasoline Launches, Small Sail Boats. Send for Catalogue. 
KNOCK DOWN BOATS 
Launches, row and 
sail boats. 
Canoes and Hunting 
boats. 
Send for Catalogue. 
Of all Descriptions. 
American Boat & Machine Co.. 3517 S. 2nd St., St. Louis, Mo. 
FOR SALE 
YAWL “MARGARET” 
38 ft. over all, 26 ft. waterline, 2ft. 6in. draft; centerboard 
trunk; cabin 5 ft. 8 in. head room; in first-class order; 
full cruising outfit. Price $1,500. Can be seen on appli¬ 
cation. B. F. P. NICHOLS, Crescent A. C., Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 13 
Building Motor Boasts Ri\d 
Managing Gasolene Engines 
are discussed in the book 
“HOW TO BUILD A LAUNCH FROM PLANS” 
A complete illustrated work on the building of motor 
boats and the installing, care and running of gasolene 
motors. By Charles G. Davis. With 40 diagrams, 
9 folding drawings and 8 full-page plans. Price, 
postpaid, $1.50. 
1 he author is a builder and designer of national repu¬ 
tation. All the instruction given is definite and com¬ 
prehensive, 40 diagrams, 9 folding drawings and 8 full- 
page plans. That portion of the boat devoted to the use 
and care of gas engines should be most carefully perused 
by every individual who operates one. The book is well 
worth the price asked for it. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
A Big-Game and Fish Map of New 
Brunswick. 
We have had prepared by the official draughtsman of 
New Brunswick a map of that Province, giving the local¬ 
ities where big game—moose and caribou—are most 
abundant, and also the streams in which salmon are 
found, and the rivers and lakes which abound in trout. 
Price, $1. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Houseboats and Houseboating 
BY ALBERT BRADLEE HUNT. 
A volume devoted to a new outdoor field which 
has for its purpose three objects: 
First—To make known the opportunities American waters 
afford for enjoyment of houseboating life. 
Second—To properly present the development which 
houseboating has attained in this country. 
Third—To set forth the advantages and pleasures of 
houseboating in so truthful a manner that others 
may become interested in the pastime. 
The book contains forty specially prepared articles by 
owners and designers of well-known houseboats, and is 
beautifully illustrated with nearly 200 line and half-tone 
reproductions of plans and exteriors and interiors. A 
most interesting chapter is devoted to houseboating in 
England. 
The book has been carefully prepared by Mr. Albert 
Bradlee Hunt. 
The work Is printed on extra heavy coated paper, and is 
bound in olive green buckram. The price is $3 net. 
Postage 34 cents. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Gas Engines and Leamches. 
Their Principles, Types and Management. By Francis 
K. Grain. 132 pages. Price, $1.25. 
Here is a pocket manual indispensable to every man 
who uses a motor-boat. It deals in simple untechnical 
fashion with the running of the marine gas engine, and 
with the difficulties that the marine gas engineer is likely 
to meet with. These engines are described, some pages 
are devoted to launches in general, with practical advice 
to the man who contemplates purchasing a power boat. 
The main feature of the book, however, is a clear descrip¬ 
tion of the difficulties met with in running a gas engine, 
their causes and how to remedy them. In this discussion 
all technicalities are avoided, and the author has boiled 
down a vast amount of practical knowledge into small 
space and into every-day language. The amateur power 
boat man needs this book, for it will save him much time 
and trouble, and probably not a little money. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Small Yacht Construction 
and Rigging. 
A Complete Manual of Practical Boat and Small Yacht 
Building. With two complete designs and numerous 
diagrams and details. By Linton Hope. 177 pages. 
Cloth. Price, $3. 
The author has taken two designs for practical demon¬ 
stration, one of a centerboard boat 19ft. waterline, and 
the other- a cruising cutter of 22ft. waterline. Both de¬ 
signs show fine little boats which are fully adapted to 
American requirements. Full instructions, even to the 
minutest detail, are given for the building of both these 
boats. The information is not confined to these yachts 
alone; they are merely taken as examples; but what is 
said applies to all wooden yacht building according to 
the best and most approved methods. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
THE AGE OF AN OYSTER. 
“It is the easiest thing in the world,” said a 
Washington Market dealer, “to find out just 
how old an oyster is. The lines in the groove of 
the hinge of the shell tell the whole story. These 
lines are a true index to the number of layers 
composing the shell, being, in fact, nothing else 
than their attenuated tails. One of these layers 
grows each year, and no matter how hard the 
sensitive oyster may try to keep it from show¬ 
ing it is bound to overlap its predecessor and 
leave a ridge which, no doubt, is just as an¬ 
noying to the oyster tribe as an annual wrinkle 
would be in the human race. 
“Up to the time of an oyster’s maturity these 
layers are arranged with regularity, but after 
that they fairly pile over each other, just as if 
the birthdays had crowded upon each other so 
rapidly that the oyster didn’t have time to spread 
out one new plate before another was right at 
his heels. An oyster comes of age when it is 
four years old. That means that the oyster is 
old enough to take care of a family and go to 
market. Going to market is a disastrous under¬ 
taking, because, a four-year-old oyster is par¬ 
ticularly palatable, and brings a higher price at 
that age than at any other.”—Evening Post. 
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A perfect finish for all woodwork, spars and ironwook exposed 
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