VEEDOL resists this ^ 
mighty 2-ton thrust 
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Horticultural Short Cuts 
Coal Ashes in Soil 
A lot of coal aslios have been spread 
on my ground. Would you advise me to 
nave them taken off, or would they act 
as a fertilizer? o. i. 
New Jersey. 
Plow or spade the coal ashes into the 
ground. They add little or no fertilizer, 
but they will improve the mechanical 
condition of the soil. They will bind a 
sandy soil together and make it more re¬ 
tentive of water, or open up a heavy clay 
soil and make it more porous. 
30 times a second 
Y OUR engine turns over. The piston plunges 
downward with a mighty thrust on the bear¬ 
ing—a thrust caused by a two-ton pressure on a 
piston of average diameter. 
And this takes place30 times every second your 
four cylinder car is rolling along at 25 miles an 
hour. Think what the pressure must be in your 
truck engine or the laboring motor of your tractor! 
A thin film of oil must hold those plunging 
surfaces apart even after the oil has endured the 
deadly heat generated by the explosion in the 
combustion chambers—heat as high as 1000 de¬ 
grees at the piston head, and 300-400 degrees on 
the cylinder and piston walls. 
Veedol is especially manufactured to resist 
deadly heat and friction. Veedol is a Pennsylvania 
base oil and is refined more than other oils by the 
Faulkner process. This exclusive Veedol process 
gives that extra heat resisting quality so necessary 
to perfect lubrication in a year when economical 
operation is imperative. 
Veedol in your engine insures proper piston 
seal and full power; longer life for the oil and for 
your engine; protection for all moving surfaces 
and for your investment in your automotive 
machinery. 
There are five Veedol oils, each different in 
body, but all of one quality. Go to your dealer. 
Consult the Veedol Chart on his wall. Select the 
Veedol Oil designated for your car, your truck, or 
your tractor. Use this oil and no other. 
first appears ns yellowish spots on the 
older leaves, ami these increase in num¬ 
ber and size until the entire leaf is de¬ 
stroyed. From the older leaves it 
spreads to the smaller and younger 
leaves, in time destroying the’ entire 
plant. A thorough sprayiug with Bor¬ 
deaux mixture, 5-5-50, controls this di - 
ease, beginning when the viues start to 
run and repeating every week or It) days. 
We have found that, there is little use 
spraying after the disease appears, for 
it cannot lie killed after getting inside the 
leaves. We try in all our spraying for 
diseases to put on an application just 
before a rainy spell. Fven though a part 
ol the poison is washed off enough re¬ 
mains to kill the tiny spores or seeds 
which germinate in wet. weather, and the 
disease does not enter. Warm, wet 
weather favors its spread. There are uo 
resistant varieties. 
Club Root of Cabbage 
This is caused by a slime mold disease 
which lives in the soil. Besides cabbage, 
the cauliflower, turnips, radishes, mus¬ 
tard. shepherd’s purse and other related 
plants are attacked. The best control is 
to use the old adage, “A stitch in time 
saves nine." and rotate crops for live 
years before replanting cabbage, being 
careful not lo have any crop related to 
cabbage on the ground during this time. 
I have seen this rotating practiced, and 
in an oat crop the third year the mustard 
was covered with this disease. This 
spoiled the eflect. of rotation, as the mus¬ 
tard acted the same as the cabbage in 
carrying over the pest. With new soil 
in a hotbed add a heavy application of 
lime when placing the soil in the pit, and 
if possible keep the weeds off the place 
from whence the soil is to he removed, 
especially those weeds related to the cab 
bage plant. Applying lime at the rate 
of three to five tons per acre to the soil 
the I' all previous to planting cabbage is 
helpful hi field culture, as the mold will 
not thrive tm an alkaline soil. We have 
headed plants affected with club-root by 
applying nitrate of soda and acid phos¬ 
phate around each plant, but doubt the 
value of such a practice in a commercial 
way. 
Let us send you a copy of our booklet “Facts 
you should know about lubrication.” 
There are Veedol Grease* and Trans-Gear Oil for the differential, 
transmission, cups and springs of the motor car, truck and tractor. 
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Resist 
deadly 
heat anti 
friction 
Controlling Plum Ctirculio 
This beetle is most destructive in the 
Nonth. where it destroys whole crops of 
peaches. The fruit is attacked as soon 
as it is set, the beetle making two kinds 
of punctures those for feeding and those 
lor tile reception of the egg. In feeding 
the pest cuts a small hole through the 
skin and eats out. a cavity as deep as it 
can reach with.its beak or snout. In 
egg-laying the female first makes a hole 
through the skin of the fruit, and thou 
drops an egg into the cavity formed. .lust 
in front of the hole, u crescent -shaped 
slit is made underneath the egg cavity, 
so as to leave the egg in a flap of the 
flesh. These crescent cuts are very char¬ 
acteristic, and one can be sure the cur- 
culio is present when they are found. 
The eggs hatch in about a week, and the 
grub or worm burrows through the flesh 
to the pit. Infested fruits usually fall to 
tlu* ground before the grubs mature. 
Plums will exude gum as a result of cur- 
eulio injury, large drops hardening on the 
skin where the injury occurs. The 
CUfeulio thrives in neglected, over¬ 
grown and unpruned orchards, being 
especially prevalent near stone walls or 
woodlands. In order to get rid of this 
pest it is necessary to correct such con¬ 
ditions. The trees should he properly 
pruned to admit the sun, for tin* eureulio 
prefers shade for its work. Then rake 
up the fallen fruits, as these contain 
grubs which may develop into mature 
beetles, which will renew the attack on 
the fruit. A satisfactory method of 
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I r* tTttl ^ Sofl kept rich 
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