Motor Car for Power 
Will you give mo somo- information 
about those appliances that use a motor 
ear for power? Are they practical and 
made for different makes of cars? 
East Granby, Conn. w. R. 
There arc two methods by which the 
auto motor may be temporarily converted 
into a stationary engine, one of which 
takes the power from the crankshaft and 
the other from the rear axle. By the 
first method an attachment is applied 
directly to the crankshaft of the motor, 
and from which a belt may be connected 
to almost any machine that can be oper¬ 
ated with a 10-horsepower engine if the 
car happens to be a Ford or its equiva¬ 
lent in power. This attachment bolts to 
the car without the necessity of drilling 
any holes and is quickly connected and 
detached. 
The second method consists in jacking 
up the rear wheels and taking power 
from them, the pressure of the tires 
against the shaft wheels being just snug 
enough to avoid slippage. The axle hear¬ 
ings have.but little strain, as the wheels 
run free of the weight of the car. The 
jack shaft carries a removable pulley, so 
that one of any size may he used. No 
special wear other than normal comes to 
the tires used in this way. The power 
developed with a Ford is from seven to 
10 horsepower. 
Both systems are good, and are put 
out for the various makes of ears. In 
price there is but little difference, both 
systems, of which there are various makes 
of each, costing around $35 to $40. 
Utilization of auto power in this way is 
practicable for such jobs as shelling corn, 
running feed grinder, buzzing up stove 
wood, thrashing oats, cutting silage and 
filling silo, running small concrete mixer 
and various other jobs on the farm. 
ALVAH H. PUi. R. 
Rural Mail Carriers and Holidays 
I note with interest on page 467 it has 
been suggested that the rural mail car¬ 
riers should deliver mail on holidays. I 
have been a farmer nearly all my life: un¬ 
til last year was six miles from central 
office, and I sometimes thought it would 
be better if we could have our mail on 
holidays, but I do not .pass it off just by 
looking at one side of it. If we will just 
consider a little of the mail carrier’s life I 
do not think we will grumble if be does 
not bring our mail the few days he is al¬ 
lowed in a year. I am not a mail car¬ 
rier; neither have I any relatives who are. 
but I do not like to ask someone else to do 
something that I would not like to do 
myself. I believe the mau who would 
like to have his mail brought to him on 
holidays would kick if he had to go 
oue trip on a holiday. I think the rural 
mail carriers should be favored a little. 
Speaking of holidays, don’t they bring our 
mail Christmas Day, no matter what the 
weather and roads may be? Most of us 
enjoy that day as a holiday, perhaps sit¬ 
ting by the fire waiting for a bountiful 
dinner to satisfy our own selves, quite 
thoughtless about the mail carrier; per¬ 
haps fast in* a snow bank, no one to help 
him out. I have seen people watching for 
the mailman, peeping through the win¬ 
dow. when the roads were next to impas¬ 
sable, and grumble because he was late, 
but if these same people are asked to 
shovel a little road they are apt to have 
something else to do, or it is too cold. I 
say again, favor the mail mau, who serves 
us so faithfully. Walter holsapple. 
New York. 
No one objects to a rural mail carrier 
having a holiday but himself, wheu he is 
so stingy and .closefisted he will not call 
on his substitute as long as he is able to 
sit up. Most farmers work on holidays 
or hire someone to take their place. The 
merchant, especially in the country, works 
on holidays. The dairyman lias to do his 
milking and all his chores, as well as .de¬ 
liver his milk on holidays, which makes 
his day as long as a mail carrier’s, as il 
takes him little more than half a. day to 
make a trip. Again*, motormen. conduc¬ 
tors, firemen and trainmen of all classes 
work on holidays, so why not a rural car¬ 
rier? I believe persons in tin* country 
have as much right to a daily delivery as 
city people have to several. I am inti¬ 
mately acquainted with several employes 
of the postoffice at Washington. D. 0.. 
and know personally that both clerks and 
carriers not only work ou holidays, but 
Sundays as well, and I do not agree that 
a rural carrier is made out of better ma¬ 
terial than they are. Often their hardest 
work is about the holiday seasou. and ou 
the day as well. j. y. Thompson. 
Virginia, 
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