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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 19, 1922 
Fordson profits 
W ORK, work, work. Out in the heat and rain. 
Heavy load conditions —all the time. Your Ford- 
son tractor is the power plant of your fields. 
Time cannot he spared for frequent adjustments, 
trouble-hunting or repairs. The business-like farmer’s 
motto is: “Keep going!" 
“Keep going!” Operation must be careful. And the 
biggest single factor in careful operation is efficient 
lubrication. “Keep going!” Efficient lubrication is all 
that blocks the way to extra repairs, extra operating 
bills, extra fuel consumption. 
Fordson owners in every state have proved through 
actual use that Gargoyle Mobiloil “BB” insures the 
highest and most continuous Fordson efficiency. In 
agricultural college tests, and in public tests and private 
tests all over the country the superiority of Gargoyle 
Mobiloil “BB” has repeatedly proven itself. 
Gargoyle Mobiloil “BB” protects. It feeds adequately 
to every friction surface. It cuts repair bills to the bone. 
It conserves fuel and power. 
Farm Mechanics 
Conducted by Robert H. Smith, of the Canton Agricultural School 
Canton, New York 
Cleaning Rusty Water Pipe 
I have a water system, pressure tank 
in cellar, and water pumped from a well 
500 ft. away from house, through gal¬ 
vanized pipe 1 Vj in., that has been laid 
about six years. Lately we have had 
trouble with rust, and I am afraid the 
main pipe to well may till with it. Can 
you suggest any way in which this pipe 
can be cleaned free from rust without 
taking it un? Where the pipe connects 
with tank in cellar there is a 2-ft. rise 
above where it connects with pump in 
well. e. c w. 
Newport, Me. 
There arc many tliiugs that, will act as 
a solvent for iron rust, hut unfortunately 
most of them act as a solvent for iron as 
well, and in addition are not desirable 
things to get into a water supply system. 
Dilute hydrochloric acid is one of those 
substances. Where conditions are such 
that its action can lie watched, it can be 
used to soften up tlie accumulated rust, 
and it is sometimes advised for use in 
water pipes. However, the facts above 
noted, in attacking the iron and mixing 
with the water of the system, make its 
practicability somewhat doubtful. 
The practical way of cleaning the pipe 
is to take it up and bore or scrape the 
rust from the inside of the pipe, replacing 
any lengths that, are badly rusted. This, 
of course, costs a considerable sum in 
When water is reached the well is de¬ 
veloped by attaching a. pump and pump¬ 
ing slowly to avoid an inrush of fine ma¬ 
terial. If it. fills, the jetting pipe is 
brought into use again and the sand 
washed out. Sometimes small pebbles are 
dropped into the pipe and rammed out¬ 
ward with an iron rod to form a pocket 
about the bottom of the well pipe. 
Velocity of Flow in Drain Tile 
How many gallons of water per minute 
will run through 8-in. tile with a fall of 
1 in. to the 100 ft ? IIow much with a 
fall of 2 in. to the 100 ft.? K. JP. 
Appleton, N. Y. 
There are other factors that influence 
the velocity of flow in a tile drain than 
the one of grade mentioned. For ex¬ 
ample. the nirti.acy with which the line 
is laid and the condition of the tile from 
which it is made have a considerable ef¬ 
fect on the velocity <'f flow, and. there¬ 
fore on the discharge which is the pro¬ 
duct of the velocity X, the area of the 
Mowing water column. A bulletin by 
D. h. Yarnell and S. M, Woodward, 
however, gives the result of carefully con¬ 
ducted experiments on lines of tile laid 
for this purpose. The grade nearest to 
that mentioned h.v you that is recorded 
is one-tenth foot per 100 ft. This is prac¬ 
tically Die same as 1 in. per 100 ft,, being 
Here is another of those big outfits used iu Nebraska for working the land. It is 
a six-mule hitch on a throe-section land roller, with spiked teeth, for cutting and 
pulverizing the lumps. Such a tool would be as useless as an elephant on one of 
our small and stony fields in the hilly country, but. on the level or rolling prairies 
this outfit as a lvu’t of large operations will pay. 
Beware of By-product Oil 
Nine out of ten lubricating oils offered you are simply 
by-products in the manufacture of gasoline. 
Gargoyle Mobiloil is not a by-product. 
It is produced by lubricating specialists who are 
recognized the world over as leaders in lubricating 
practice. Gargoyle Mobiloil is made only from crude 
oils chosen solely for their lubricating quality—not for 
their gasoline content. Gargoyle Mobiloil is manufac¬ 
tured by processes which bring out the highest lubri¬ 
cating value—not the greatest gallonage of gasoline. 
Warning: 
Don’t be misled by some similar souiul- 
i ng name. Look on the container for the 
correct name Mobiloil (not Mobile) and 
for the red Gargoyle. 
Don’t believe false statements that 
some other oil is identical with Gargoyle 
Mobiloil Gargoyle Mobiloil is made 
only by the Vacuum Oil Company, in 
its own refineries, and is never sold 
under any other name. 
Mobiloil 
Make the chart your guide 
ADDRESS OUR NEAREST BRANCH: 
New York 
(Main Offite) 
Philadelphia 
Indianapolis 
Buffalo 
Boston 
Detroit 
Min neapolis 
Des Moines 
Chicago 
Pittsburgh 
Kansas City, Kan. 
Dallas 
VACUUM OIL 
time, money and labor, but it is effective. 
Sometimes sections can be taken up at 
elbows and a still' wire used to drag a 
brush through, loosening the rust in the 
pipe still down. This is more easily done 
than taking lip the whole pipe. 
Clearing a Plugged Well 
I have two well points within 2 ft. of 
each other, of 2 in. pipe driven to a 
depth of 25 ft., both plugged up, prob¬ 
ably through disuse. Is there any means 
by which I could clear the strainers, by 
dynamite or acid, without pulling up the 
points? I have tried that without suc¬ 
cess. If it is possible to destroy strainer 
with dynamite, enough so that water will 
come through freely, would you consider 
it feasible to have suction chamber con¬ 
taining a strainer at the ground level? 
Middloboro. Mass. o. B. u. 
The trouble that you refer to is a com¬ 
mon one with wells of this type, and I 
know of no way in which it could he 
treated as you suggest. Oil wells are 
opened up by means of explosive in a 
somewhat similar manner, hut I have 
never heard of the method being applied 
to driven wells. Fan you not lift your 
string of pipe by means of two jacks, one 
placed on either side of the pipe, and 
acting against a heavy yoke of hard wood 
timber clamped to (lie top of the pipe by 
means of heavy belts? It will hr neces¬ 
sary to dig around the top of the pipe 
somewhat, and to secure a firm foundation 
for the jacks to set upon, hat a very great 
lifting force can be exerted in this way. 
An open-end driven well does not clog 
so quickly. This is driven by attaching 
a cutting shoe to the bottom of the pipe 
and driving in the same way as when a 
well point is useo. A heavy wrench ap¬ 
plied to the top of the pipe and used to 
turn it as it is driven down makes driv¬ 
ing easier. To remove the dill from the 
inside of tile nine, water is pumped in 
by means of a force pump, and boat 1 con¬ 
nected to a string of small pipe let down 
inside the one to he used for the well. 
Various ways are used to accomplish 
this; one is to use a hollow cylinder as 
the driving weight. This is slipped oyer 
the top of the pipe find used by lifting 
and dropping upon a stop clamped to the 
pipe. This leaves the top of the pipe 
free for the insertion of the small pipe 
carrying wash water. 
a difference of less than VL in. in 100 ft. 
At this grade an 8-in. tilp was found to 
deliver apparently 205 gals, per minute. 
When laid at twice this grade, the dis¬ 
charge was about MOM gals, per minute. 
The length of line used in these experi¬ 
ments was approximately 570 ft. 
Further information regarding these 
tests and the flow of water in tile lines 
can he obtained from Bulletin 854. "The 
Flow of Water in Drain Tile." This can 
he obtained through your Congressman 
for the asking, or from the superintendent 
of documents at Washington for a small 
sum, 10 or 15 cents. 
Remedy for Wet Cellar 
Will you tell tne how to keep water out 
Of cellar? The house is on low ground, 
and in Spring water comes in cellar 1 '/j 
ft. deep; then it goes out as the water 
goes down. Is there any possible way 
iu keep if out? c, .i ■ t. 
Hackettstown, N. J. 
This is a very difficult condition to 
handle. The water in the cellar is forced 
in by the water table rising higher in the 
surrounding soil than the cellar bottom, 
and forcing water iu through cracks and 
crevices in the wall until it stands at the 
same level as the water in the soil about 
the cellar. In other words, the cellar 
becomes a shallow well. To prevent this 
condition we must either lower the water 
table in the soil outside the walls or 
make the walls and floor of the cellar 
watertight, so that they Can resist the 
outside pressure due to the head of water 
and prevent, its entrance. Sometimes a 
combination of the two methods is used, 
but in any case the work is difficult, and 
expensive. 
Catching tin* roof water with eaves 
troughs and conducting it away, as well 
a> giving efficient outside drainage as the 
nature of the ground permits, will help. 
Digging away the earth about the wall 
of the house and laying tile to take up 
and carry away the water is another 
method that is used in some cases. An¬ 
other method flint is used where there is 
no possible outlet is to introduce a layer 
of tarred felt, or rather several overlap¬ 
ping layers laid in and cemented together 
with hot coal-tar pitch. Concrete is then 
placed inside this to form the finished 
surface. 
