1908. 
THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Electric Lighting by Storage Batteries. 
J. M. F., Leesburg, Va .—I have been 
much interested in your articles on utilizing 
the water power. Unfortunately I cannot 
get sufficient power to be of use. As I 
have to fill my supply tank with a gaso¬ 
line engine I have thought that it might 
be practical to run a dynamo while pump¬ 
ing, and store enough electricity in storage 
batteries to light our house at night, hut do 
not know if storage batteries are per¬ 
fected enough for this. Can you give me 
the information? I am able to get a 
dynamo large enough for 125 lights very 
cheap; so would like to know how long 
it would take to charge a single battery 
and if a number could be charged in the 
same length of time? How many 10-candle 
power lamps will a single storage battery 
supply for say four hours and would the 
light be equal to the regular electric light? 
Ans.—F or years inventors have given 
a great deal of attention to the ques¬ 
tion of batteries for storing elec¬ 
tric energy, and it must be con¬ 
fessed that the subject is still in 
a rather unsatisfactory condition. It 
is perfectly possible to run a dynamo for 
a few hours daily, or even semi-weekly, 
and accumulate energy which shall be 
instantly available at all times for lighting 
or power purposes, and plants of this 
kind, some of them on a very large scale, 
are not unknown. The electric automo¬ 
bile is the most familiar example of the 
application of this principle. But the 
storage battery is very expensive to in¬ 
stall, and needs expert atte'ntion in use, 
and may be seriously damaged in charg¬ 
ing or discharging. To run even a few 
lights at the usual voltage will call for 
a battery, ordinarily made up of about 55 
cells, and these must be kept in a frost¬ 
proof and ventilated room. It will not 
do to install them without special pro¬ 
visions for ventilation, as at times they 
give off acrid gases. Still, if money is 
available in liberal .amounts, it will be 
practicable to install a plant arranged to 
charge storage batteries from a genera¬ 
tor run by a gasoline engine. The wir¬ 
ing and lighting arrangements will be in 
every respect the same as if connected 
directly with the dynamo. However, if 
I were asked for candid advice, I would 
say save the money all this will cost, and 
put in a system for acetylene gas light¬ 
ing. I very much doubt if it will pay 
to consider electricity for farm lighting 
unless waterpower is available. I may 
add that if a dynamo is to be run di¬ 
rectly from a gas engine to furnish cur¬ 
rent for lighting, the engine must have 
a good governor and a heavy balance 
wheel, otherwise the lights will “wink” 
at every explosion in the cylinder. 
JARED VAN WAGENEN, JR. 
The Cabbage Maggot. 
A. C. B. (No Address ).—I had planted 
on a rich plot of ground early cabbage. 
After the plants had three to four inches 
growth the maggots worked in them very 
badly. I had a good crop of onions the 
year before and had not seen a maggot. 
I want to sow onions again this Spring. 
Would it be safe? What will keep mag¬ 
gots away from early cabbage? 
Ans. —The Onion maggot and the 
Cabbage maggot are two different 
species of insects, although very closely 
allied, and the former does not attack 
cabbages nor the latter infest onions. 
The Cabbage maggot is the common 
maggot infesting radishes, turnips, cauli¬ 
flower, wild mustard and various similar 
cruciferous plants. The Onion mag¬ 
got apparently confines itself to onions. 
However, there is another maggot 
closely allied to both these maggots, to 
which I gave the popular name of the 
“Fringed Anthomyian,” that is not un¬ 
common on cabbages, often working 
with the Cabbage maggot, and is also 
destructive to beans and seed corn. This 
Fringed Anthomyian has been recorded 
as attacking onions in England, but 
there are no records of its working 
upon onions in America as yet. From 
the above facts I think it would be 
quite safe to grow onions where cab¬ 
bages have been infested with maggots 
the year before, and also to grow cab¬ 
bages on land where onions have been 
“maggoty” the preceding year. So far 
as I know, nothing has been found more 
effectual for Cabbage or Onion mag¬ 
gots than carbolic acid emulsion, made 
by dissolving one pound of soap in one 
gallon of water and adding one pint of 
crude carbolic acid, then diluting the 
whole with about 30 parts of water. 
This is most effectual while the mag¬ 
gots are small. In regard to prevent¬ 
ing maggots from infesting cabbages in 
the seed bed, it has been found practic¬ 
able and effective to place a screen of 
cheesecloth over the seed bed. Twelve- 
inch boards are set on edge and the 
cheesecloth tacked over the top, making 
the covering as tight as possible, so that 
no flies can get in. These screens should 
be removed about 10 days before time 
for settling the plants. The only effi¬ 
cient method of keeping maggots away 
from early cabbages is to apply the 
tarred paper pads closely around the 
base of the plants. The pads are made 
about three inches in diameter, and a 
slit is cut from the edge to the cejiter 
and several smaller slits cut from the 
center each way so that the pad can be 
fitted closely around the stem of the 
plants. These should be placed on 
soon after the plants are set and care 
taken not to cover the pads with dirt. 
Anyone interested in root maggots 
should get a copy of Circular No. 63 
issued by the United States Bureau of 
Entomology. m. v. slingerland. 
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