July 27, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
99 
THE OUTDOOR LIBRARY 
Seasonable books dealing with every phase of life 
in the Open. Handbooks of sport. Books that 
make “roughing it easy.” Books for Fisherman, 
Hunter, Yachtsman, Canoeist, Camper, Nature 
Lover. Books of Travel and Adventure for 
Young and Old. 
BOILING DOWN PENGUINS. 
What is probably the most southerly in¬ 
dustry of the world is being carried on at Mac¬ 
quarie Island, about half way between Tasmania 
and the Antarctic Continent, in the capture of 
penguins for their oil. Macquarie Island belongs 
to the State of Tasmania and has an area of 
about 25,000 acres, being about twenty-five miles 
long and five miles wide. The island is leased 
by the Tasmanian Government to Joseph Hatch, 
who has established a penguin oil industry there. 
There are probably 80,000,000 penguins on 
the island, so that the stock to be drawn from 
seems almost limitless. According to Consular 
and Trade Reports the oil is obtained from the 
penguins by boiling the carcasses in digestors 
capable of dealing with 800 birds at a time. The 
tops of the digestors are fastened down and 
steam applied until about twenty-five pounds 
pressure is obtained. The steam is then turned 
off and water pumped into the bottoms of the 
digestors, this causing the oil to rise, when it 
is taken off the top by a tap. 
The oil is placed in barrels and sold to 
binder twine makers in Australia and New Zea¬ 
land. There is a good market for all the oil 
that is produced here, but the industry has met 
with several severe losses through wreck of 
ships attempting to visit the island. There is 
no harbor about the island, so that the vessels 
have to lie about half a mile off the rocky coast, 
and all material has to be conveyed to and from 
the shore on rafts formed of casks. _ Owing to 
the roughness of the open roadstead it is impos¬ 
sible to obtain insurance for vessels trading 
there. 
Macquarie Island is about 750 miles south¬ 
east of Hobart. The island is barren, being 
covered only with tussocky grass. Whaling 
ships visiting there have introduced rabbits and 
Maori hens, which are now quite prolific. The 
Mawson Antarctic expedition from Australia 
has established a wireless station there, and 
daily messages are now being received at Hobart. 
It was the intention of this expedition to 
use Macquarie Island as a means of sending 
messages all the way from their base at Adelie 
Land to Hobart, but unfortunately the wireless 
station established at Adelie Land has been un¬ 
able to communicate with Macquarie Island, 
owing, it is supposed, to being too 1 near the 
magnetic disturbance caused by the proixmity 
of the south magnetic pole. The station at 
Macquarie Island, however, has already proved 
of considerable value to shipping in Australian 
waters by giving warning of storms coming from 
the south. 
SYRIAN APRICOT PASTE. 
In view of the abundant apricot yield on the 
Pacific Coast, it might be of profit to American 
farmers in that region to utilize that portion of 
the yield which is too ripe, or is otherwise unfit 
for transportation to the fruit markets or can¬ 
neries, in the manufacture of apricot paste, 
known in Syria as kamereddin. 
*This industry has long been in vogue at 
Damascus and all along the valley of the 
Barada River. The methods employed are very 
simple. A basin two or three feet deep and of 
a circumference proportionate to the crop to be 
treated, is dug by the farmer and usually lined 
with cement. The ripe apricots are stoned and 
thrown into this basin and beaten into a pulp 
with tampers. The primitive method of kneading 
the fruit with bare feet is still often resorted to. 
The pulp is then spread out on thin boards and 
placed under trees and in shady places to dry. 
These boards are of uniform size, and the paste 
is so spread out as not to be thicker than one- 
tenth of an inch when dry. The sheets thus 
manufactured when dry weigh 1 rottle (about 
5V2 pounds) and look like sole leather.—Vice- 
Consul General F. Willoughby Smith, Beirut. 
Uncle Lisha’s Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. Rob¬ 
inson. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
Peggs, bootmaker and repairer, was a sort of sportsman’s 
exchange, where, as one of the fraternity expressed it, 
the hunters and fishermen of the widely scattered neigh¬ 
borhood used to meet of evenings and dull outdoor days, 
“to swap lies.” 
Hunting Without a Gun. 
And other papers. By Rowland E. Robinson. With 
illustrations from drawings by Rachael Robinson. 
Price, $2.00 
This collection of papers on different themes con¬ 
tributed to Forest and Stream and other publications 
and now for the first time brought together. 
Forest Runes. 
Poems by George W. Sears (“Nessmuk”). With arto- 
type portraits and autobiographical sketch of the author. 
Cloth, 208 pages. Price, $1.50. 
American Big Game Hunting. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club: Editors: 
Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell. Illus¬ 
trated. Cloth, 315 pages. Price, $2.50. 
Trail and Camp-Fire. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Editors: 
George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt. 
Illustrated. Cloth, 353 pages. Price, $2.50. 
Like its predecessors, the present volume is devoted 
chiefly to the great game and outdoor life of Northern 
America; yet it does not confine itself to any one land, 
though it is first of all a book about America, its game 
and its people. 
American Big Game in Its Haunts. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club for 1904. 
George Bird Grinnell, Editor. 490 pages and 46 
full-page illustrations. Price, $2.50. 
This is the fourth and by far the largest and hand¬ 
somest of the Club’s books. It opens with a sketch of 
Theodore Roosevelt, founder of the Boone and Crockett 
Club, and contains an extremely interesting article from 
his pen descriptive of his visit to the Yellowstone Park 
in 1903. Other papers are on North American Big 
Game; Hunting in Alaska; The Kadiac Bear; Moose; 
Mountain Sheep; Game Refuges, and other big-game 
topics. 
My Friend the Partridge. 
By S. T. Hammond. Cloth, 150 pages. Postpaid, $1.00. 
An inimitable study of ihe noblest of our game birds, 
following the ruffed grouse deep into his haurts, de¬ 
tailing the experiences of more than 60 years in the 
field, and throwing much light on the habits, life history 
and habitat of the game. A most delightful reminder 
of happy days with upland game. 
Inter-Ocean Hunting Tales. 
By Edgar F. Randolph. Cloth, 200 pages. Postpaid, $1.00. 
A collection of stories such as are told about the 
camp-fire. Mr. Randolph offers a hunting experience 
bounded only by the two oceans, replete with incident, 
interesting from its novel viewpoint, and dealing with 
every kind of game that falls to the rifle of the American 
sportsman. 
The Spaniel and Its Training. 
By F. H. F. Mercer. To which are added the American 
and English Spaniel Standards. Cloth. Illustrated. 
Price, $1-00. 
Men I Have Fished With. 
Sketches of character and incident with rod and gun 
from childhood to manhood; from the killing of little 
fishes and birds to a buffalo hunt. By Fred Mather. 
Illustrated. Price, $1.50. 
Training the Hunting Dog for the Field and 
Field Trials. 
By B. Waters. Cloth, 281 pages. Price, $1.50. 
This is the latest and best manual on the subject. As 
an owner and handler of field trial dogs, and one having 
had an exceptionally wide experience in the field and at 
field trials, Mr. Waters' was admirably equipped to write 
such a work. It has already taken its place as the 
standard authority. 
American Duck Shooting. 
By George Bird Grinnell. Cloth, 630 pages. With 58 
portraits of North American Swans, Geese and Ducks, 
Plans of Boats and Batteries. Fifty Vignettes in the 
text and a chart of the topography of a duck’s plumage. 
Price, $3.50. 
My Sixty Years on the Plains, Trapping, 
Trading and Indian Fighting. 
By W. T. Hamilton (“Bill” Hamilton). With 8 full- 
page illustrations by Chas. M. Russell. New York. 
Cloth. 233 pages. Price, $1.50. 
Manual of Taxidermy for Amateurs. 
A complete guide in collecting and preserving birds 
and animals. By C. J. Maynard. Illustrated. New 
edition. Price, $1.00. 
Rhymes of the Stream and Forest. 
By P'rank Merton Buckland Cloth. Heavy laid paper. 
Sumptuously bound. Postpaid, $1.25. 
A charming collection of verse by an author who 
knows and loves nature well. A particularly pleasing 
gift for fishermen, closely simulating in form and orna¬ 
mentation the standard fly-book. 
Woodcraft. 
By Nessmuk. Cloth, 200 pages. Illustrated. Postpaid, 
$ 1 . 00 . 
No better book was ever written for the help and 
guidance of those who go into the woods for sport and 
recreation. It is simple and practical, and withal a 
classic, written with a rare and quaint charm. 
Houseboats and Houseboating. 
By Albert Bradlee Hunt. The book contains forty 
specially prepared articles by owners and designers of 
well-known house-boats, 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. Extra heavy paper, 
buckram. The price is $3.00 net. Postage, 34 cents. 
Some Native Birds for Little Folks. 
By Dr. W. Van Fleet. Illustrated by Howard H. 
Darnell. Cloth. 146 pages, with 14 photogravure 
plates. Price, $1.00. 
Describes the wood duck, the great horned owl, ruffed 
grouse, killdeer, plover, bobolink, bluejay, chickadee, cedar 
bird, meadow lark, robin, woodcock, kingfisher, crossbill, 
and nuthatches. 
The Anglers’ Workshop. Rod Making for 
Beginners. 
By Perry D. Frazer. Cloth, 180 pages. Four full-page 
illustrations, 60 working drawings. Postpaid, $1.00. 
A complete, simple and thoroughly up-to-date work 
for the guidance of the amateur rod maker, carrying him 
from first principles through all phases of successful rod 
making. There is no theorizing or speculation. All 
terms are simple, and all kinds of rods and woods are 
treated of. 
Modem Fishculture in Fresh and Salt Water. 
By Fred Mather, author of “Men I have Fished With,” 
with a chapter on Whitefish Culture by Hon. Herschel 
Whitaker, and a chapter on the Pike-Perch by James 
Nevin. Illustrated. Price, $2.00. 
My Angling Friends. 
A Second Series of “Men I Have Fished With.” By 
Fred Mather. Cloth, 369 pages, with 13 illustrations. 
Price $1.50. 
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