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Removing Bees from Double Wall 
Can you tell me how to get a swarm of 
bees out of a double adobe wall with 
4-in. space between? I would like to get 
the bees into a hive, if possible. They 
have been there for several years. 
El Cajon. Cal. n. m. k. 
Bees can be taken out of such enclos- ! 
ures by the use of a modern bee escape, j 
a device that permits the bees to pass out. ; 
but not back again. One of these should ! 
be attached to the entrance or opening | 
through which the bees come and go. and j 
near by should be placed on a shelf a j 
small colony or nucleus in a modern hive. 
In the course of three or four weeks the 
bees within the adobe enclosures will be 
trapped out by the bee escape, and go into 
the hive placed on the shelf. At the end 
of about four weeks the hive and' bee es¬ 
cape may be removed, when the opening 
can be closed with cement or mud. Any 
honey which may be left can be secured 
by leaving the hive on the shelf and al¬ 
lowing the outside bees to get in and rob 
it out. which they will do in a few days. 
The opening can then be closed. E. r. r. 
Fitting Soil for a Lawn 
I have a plot of ground I wish to make 
into a lawn. The land has not been cul¬ 
tivate^ for.several years, and is full of 
weeds. I thought of plowing and seeding 
this Spring with equal parts of Timothy 
and Red clover, then plowing it under in 
the Fall. Can you advise me of a better 
plan and formula? g. w. p. 
New York. 
In order to make a good, permanent 
lawn this piece of ground must be cleaned 
of weeds, made sweet with lime and 
stuffed full of organic matter. Two dis¬ 
tinct plans are open. One is to plant 
early corn or potatoes in hills. Give the 
most thorough tillage with cultivator and 
hoe. and see that every weed is killed. 
Harvest the crop as early as possible and 
plow and fit the ground, seeding buck¬ 
wheat or millet, with at least one ton of 
limestone to the acre. Plow the millet 
or buckwheat under in September, and 
fit the land for the permanent lawn. The 
thorough culture of the corn or potatoes 
will clean up most of the weeds. The 
other plan is to fit the land early and 
seed to oats and Canada peas, with lime 
and fertilizer. Plow this crop under in 
early July, and sow millet or buckwheat, 
and proceed as in the other plan. In this 
way a large amount of organic matter is 
added to the soil, and the weeds are 
smothered out. Either plan will leave i 
the soil in good condition for seeding. 
The chief cause of 
engine trouble 
—sediment in inferior oil 
TALLED at night—it may 
happen to you! Are yon 
treating your engine fairly? 
Has the power begun to go 
bad, bearings to pound, pistons 
to knock? If so, trouble is in 
store for you. 
Ninety per cent, of modern 
engine troubles are due to 
poor lubrication. Under the 
intense heat of the engine— 
200° to 1000° F.—ordinary 
oil forms great quantities of 
black sediment. Sediment 
causes premature wear which 
will cut the life of your engine 
in two. This is the hidden 
toll taken by sediment in in¬ 
ferior oil. 
You can eliminate engine 
trouble from this source. 
Sediment is reduced 86% 
when you use Veedol, the 
lubricant that resists heat. 
(See the two bottles at the 
right.) With Yeedol in the 
engine most serious troubles 
are prevented. 
Have your engine flushed 
out. Put in Veedol. Lead¬ 
ing dealers have it in stock. 
Veedol lubricants for every 
part of the car 
Use Yeedol lubricants for all parts 
of the car: VEEDOL for the engine 
(light zero, medium, heavy, special 
heavy, extra heavy); for the differ¬ 
ential and transmission, VEEDOL 
TRANS-GEAR OIL or GEAR 
COMPOUND; for the tractor and 
truck, WORM DRIVE OIL; 
GRAPHITE GREASE; CUP 
GREASE. 
Ordinary oil Veedol 
after use a/fer use 
Showing sediment for rnod 
after 500 milea of running 
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Sales Corporation 
1564 Bowling Green Bldg., New York 
Branches and distributors in all principal 
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Coal-Tar Refuse for Cabbage Maggot 
Cabbage growers experience large losses 
through the attacks of the cabbage in¬ 
sects. especially the cabbage maggot. 
There have been many methods recom¬ 
mended to control these pests, but they 
have all proven too expensive either from 
the labor or the materials standpoint, or 
both. A successful Long Island market 
gardener. Mr. Kohenhoven of Huntington, 
did much experimenting to find a cheap 
and efficient control measure. He finally 
tried a mixture of coal-tar refuse and 
clean, screened sand. The coal-tar refuse 
was obtained from a coal gas plant at a 
cost of about 10 cents a gallon. One 
pint of the refuse mixed with a bushel of 
sand were the proportions used most ef¬ 
fectively. The sand was shoveled over 
and over to distribute the coal-tar evenly j 
through the mixture. Two bushels of the 
mixture were ample to treat an acre of 
cabbage. The preparation cost 2 1 / f> cents 
a bushel for materials, and it took some¬ 
thing less than an hour for a man to pre¬ 
pare enough to treat five acres. 
In applying, a glove is worn over the 
hand and a small handful of the mixture 
is thrown around the base of the plants. 
One man can apply the mixture to an 
acre of set plants in about four hours. 
The coal-tar refuse acts as a repellent, 
and provides complete protection for at 
least two weeks with each application. 
Mr. Kohenhoven has used this protection 
method for 10 years, and he has never 
had any loss from insect-damaged plants 
when these applications were made. 
Iowa. ALFRED H. IIAUSRATIf, JR. 
Teachers “You see, had the lamb 
been obedient, and stayed in the fold, it 
would not have been eaten by the wolf, 
would it?” Boy : “No. ma’am ; it would 
have been eaten by us.”—Toronto Sun. 
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Crows 
hate it! 
Save replanting and protect 
your seed corn from crows, 
other birds and animal pests 
by using "Stanley’s Grow 
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Ready for use. No tar, lime, 
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$1.50. Small can—enough 
for one bushel $1.00. 
From your dealer or by 
mail from us. Write 
for circular. 
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New Britain, Conn. 
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