Ira  Vail  Won  $21 
Against  the  World’s  Great  Racing  Cars  wi 
Hudson  Super-Six 
The  Only  Car  That  Kept  Going 
Rhubarb  Goes  to  Seed 
What  can  I  do  with  rhubarb?  Mine 
insists  on  running  to  snort  and  not  pro¬ 
ducing  much.  I  have  had  rhubarb  before 
that  never,  produced  auy  seed.  f.  p.  u. 
So  far  as  I  am  aware,  all  rhubarb  is 
bisexual,  and  will  produce  seed  uuder 
favorable  conditions.  The  fact  of  your 
plants  persisting  in  throwing  up  a  ple¬ 
thora  of  seed  stalks  and  producing  hut 
few  leaf  stalks  would  indicate  that  the 
plants  are  suffering  for  want  of  suitable 
plant  food  or  need  dividing,  or  both. 
Rhubarb  requires  annual  applications  of 
manure  to  keep  up  its  profitable  produc¬ 
tion  of  good  leaf  stalks.  The  best  way 
to  accomplish  the  fertilizing  is  to  ap¬ 
ply  a  heavy  mulch  of  good  manure 
around  the  plants  in  late  Fall,  and  work 
it  in  the  ground  around  them  in  the 
Spring.  With  this  treatment  there 
should  be  good  results.  If  not.  then  there 
is  something  seriously  the  matter  with 
the  plants;  they  either  have  become  near¬ 
ly  exhausted  or  need  dividing  K. 
RURALISMS 
Notes  on  Texas  Peaches 
I  have  noted  with  interest  the  differ¬ 
ent  reports  regarding  hardiness  of  peach¬ 
es  from  time  to  time  in  The  R.  N.-Y. 
From  all  accounts  the  Carman  is  still 
one  of  the  best.  I  have  perceived  in  this 
peach  decided  hardiness  from  the  very 
first.  But  judging  from  what  experience 
I  had  with  other  new  seedlings  the  last 
few  years,  I  am  bound  to  state,  there  are 
several  that  side  by  side  will  be  found 
to  surpass  the  Carman  in  hardiness  of 
bud,  firmness  of  flesh,  as  well  as  quality 
to  eat.  All  of  them  are  members,  with 
the  Carman,  of  the  North  China  race. 
All  are  later  than  the  Carman,  even  later 
than  Elberta.  This  present  season  there 
Winter-killed  Carman  Peach 
are  here  but  few  Carmans,  while  of 
others,  such  as  Lizzie,  Frank,  Barbara 
and  Katy,  there  are  all  the  trees  can 
hold,  after  many  were  taken  off. 
The  pictures  given  in  this  column  are 
from  photographs  taken  on  the  same  day 
two  years  ago  last  March,  one  showing 
a  tree  of  Carman  with  nearly  every  hud 
winter-killed,  the  other  a  tree  (original) 
of  Tena.  just  starting  in  full  bloom. 
These  trees  stand  by  side  of  each  other. 
Tree  of  Tena  is  showing  paper  bags,  cov¬ 
ering  the  prepared  blossom  for  artificial 
cross-pollination  with  other  hardy  sorts. 
This  has  been  the  work  of  Prof.  Win.  F. 
Wight,  botanist  of  the  Department  of 
Agriculture  at  Washington,  for  the  last 
three  years  among  my  new  varieties.  He 
is  quite  enthusiastic  over  a  number  of 
them,  and  has  carried  on  his  painstak¬ 
ing  labors  on  quite  au  extensive  scale. 
Thus  he  hopes  in  course  of  time  to  pro¬ 
duce  desirable  results  in  obtaining  still 
others  of  great  hardiness,  combined  with 
high  quality,  in  addition  to  what  wo  al¬ 
ready  have  in  those  parents. 
This  season,  Elberta  is  hereabouts  again 
a  failure.  The  result  will  be  that  before 
another  year  a  considerable  part  of  the 
The  Hudson  Super-Six  is  not  built  for  a  speed  car. 
And  we  don’t  build  special  racing  cars. 
Our  speed  tests  are  made  to  show  the  endurance  of 
our  patented  Super-Six  motor.  And  here  is  one 
test  which  did  it. 
Met  $10,000  Cars 
The  Metropolitan  Race  on  the  speedway  in  New  York  is  the 
great  racing  event  of  the  year.  The  world’s  best  racing  cars 
are  entered.  Their  cost  will  average  $1 0,000  each. 
Ira  Vail,  of  Brooklyn,  entered  that  race  with  a  Hudson  Super-Six, 
which  had  been  run  for  months.  And  everybody  laughed. 
The  motor  was  our  regular  Super-Six.  The  car,  being  a  used 
car,  cost  him  $1,300.  For  such  a  car  to  meet  the  world’s 
finest  racers  seemed  like  David  and  Goliath. 
of  wear.  That  means  more  strain  than 
ten  years'  average  use. 
That  is  what  we  are  proving — how  the 
Super-Six  will  last. 
This  motor  is  a  Hudson  invention, 
controlled  by  Hudson  patents. 
By  eliminating  vibration — the  cause  of 
friction — the  power  is  increased  80  per 
cent.  So  the  Super-Six — a  small,  light 
Six — delivers  76  horsepower. 
And  that  same  utter  smoothness  gives 
this  wondrous  endurance. 
It  Never  Stopped 
The  other  cars  ran  faster,  but  they  had 
to  stop.  The  terrible  speed  called  for 
repairs  and  adjustments.  The  Super- 
Six  ran  the  150  miles  without  a  single 
stop.  It  was  the  only  car  that  did 
that. 
So  the  Super-Six  defeated  most  of  those 
racing  cars.  It  won  third  place  and 
$2,000.  It  was  only  five  minutes 
behind  the  first  car.  All  because  this 
engine  excelled  all  others  in  reliability. 
1,819  Miles  in  24  Hours 
Another  Super-Six  ran  1,819  miles  in  24 
hours.  That  is  as  far  as  from  New 
York  to  Denver.  And  one  man  drove 
it  all  the  way. 
That  was  a  stock  chassis,  exactly  the 
same  as  in  the  cars  we  sell.  The  A. 
A.  A.  officials  certified  to  that.  No 
other  stock  car  has  ever  run  more  than 
1,200  miles  in  that  time. 
That  was  due  to  endurance.  The  Super- 
Six  kept  an  average  speed  of  75.8  miles 
per  hour,  and  kept  it  for  24  hours. 
Like  10  Years’  Use 
That  same  Super-Six  has  been  run  at  top 
speed  for  3,800  miles.  And  not  a  part 
or  bearing  in  the  motor  shows  evidence 
Hudson  Now  Supreme 
The  Super-Six  motor  makes  the  Hudson 
car  supreme.  The  man  who  owns  one 
feels  himself  the  master  of  the  road. 
He  meets  no  car  so  powerful,  so  speedy 
or  so  flexible.  No  stock  car  ever  built 
has  matched  it  in  performance. 
He  meets  no  car  more  beautiful,  more 
luxurious  or  impressive.  He  meets  no 
car  so  durable.  He  goes  anywhere  and 
everywhere  with  a  knowledge  that 
none  ride  more  safely  or  comfortably. 
And  yet  the  owner  of  a  Super-Six  pays 
but  a  modest  price. 
Here  is  a  car  80  per  cent  more  efficient 
than  Sixes  used  to  be.  When  you  buy 
a  fine  car  you  are  bound  to  select  it. 
So  we  want  you  to  know  the  facts. 
Tena  Peach  in  Bioom,  Bagged  for  Artificial 
Pollination 
trees  yet  remaining  will  goto  the  woodpile, 
where  many  have  already  gone  the  last 
two  years.  Four  crop  failures  in  succes¬ 
sion  as  we  have  had  here  on  the  prairie 
ought  to  be  enough  to  doom  any  variety. 
For  some  unaccountable  reason  the  -I.  II. 
Hale  is  also  failing;  trees  bloomed  full, 
but  blossoms  did  not  stick. 
In  Texas,  many  large  orchards  that 
were  planted  during  the  Elberta  craze  a 
number  of  years  ago  have  proven  total 
failures,  unsuitable  varieties  on  unsuit¬ 
able  stocks  being  the  main  reason  for 
these  wholesale  misfortunes.  It  has  been 
proven  and  demonstrated  by  one  of  our 
leading  careful  horticulturists.  Uncle  Gil¬ 
bert  Onderdonk  of  Victoria,  Texas,  that 
in  our  country,  the  Persian  race  of 
peaches  used  as  stocks  for  others  to  be 
budded  or  grafted  into  are  failures,  inas¬ 
much  as  they  are  short-lived,  not  lasting 
7-Passenger  Phaeton,  $1,475  at  Detroit 
Seven  other  styles  of  Bodies 
Hudson  Motor  Car  Company 
Detroit,  Michigan 
