HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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ANUARY, 
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of the 1915 
Carter Catalog 
is Ready 
This edition lists many strains of 
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Peas, Petunias, Snap-dragons and 
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who, for more than half a century, 
have been foremost in introducing 
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on gardening, containing most com¬ 
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lustrated with hundreds of beautiful 
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descriptions. 
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The perforations in the walls of the re¬ 
ceptacles belonging to both the positive 
and the negative plates are for the pur¬ 
pose of admitting the liquid of the cell, a 
solution of potassium hydrate. 
The type of cell described in the fore¬ 
going is one of the best on the market, the 
manufacturers guarantee that it will be 
capable of developing full rated capacity, 
even at the end of four years. Such 
cells may be charged and used thousands 
of times. But there are other types of 
storage cell. In another prominent de¬ 
vice, the liquid employed as an elec¬ 
trolyte is an acid or an acid solution. This 
is a notable difference. The positive ma¬ 
terial is lead, the plates being formed of 
chemically pure rolled lead by a swaging 
process. This mechanical method of 
forming the complicated shape required 
is deemed a great advance over the old 
procedure of coating or skinning or plow¬ 
ing. The negative plate is also formed by 
the swaging process. Swaging is an old 
system of forming metals while in the cold 
state. It is quite successful in many ap¬ 
plications ; and probablv has not received 
the development of which it is capable. 
It proceeds by inflicting multitudes of light 
blows one after the other. These blows 
are delivered by mechanical means, and 
may number hundreds or thousands per 
minute. The effect is that the metal flows 
slowly and assumes the form desired. A 
gold-plated rod may be swaged to form 
a much smaller rod without damaging the 
integrity of the gold covering. 
In using any type of storage battery, it 
will be well to employ tungsten lamps in¬ 
stead of the carbon filament bulbs. Elec¬ 
trical energy is estimated in watts; and 
when we pay a public service corporation 
our bill is figured on the basis of the num¬ 
ber of watt-hours consumed. An ordi¬ 
nary carbon filament lamp will require 
about 3.5 watts of energy per candle- 
power. The tungsten lamp requires only 
about 1.25 watts per candle-power; that 
is, it consumes only about one-third the 
current used by the carbon filament lamp. 
A 16-candle-power tungsten lamp will ac¬ 
cordingly require a current of 20 watts. 
Now, if we know the voltage of the indi¬ 
vidual cells in the storage battery, we may 
determine the voltage of the battery by 
simply multiplying by the number of the 
cells. It is assumed here that the cells 
are connected in series; that is, that the 
positive pole of one cell is connected to 
the negative pole of the next, and so on 
throughout the battery. The one positive 
pole and the one negative pole thus left 
unconnected at the ends of the battery 
will constitute the poles of the battery re¬ 
garded as one cell. If each cell has the 
power of discharging a current at 2 volts, 
a 16-cell battery will discharge at 32 volts. 
Ordinarily, it will be desirable to operate 
at this voltage or at no volts. The lower 
voltage will enable lamps to be operated 
at a maximum distance of 300 feet from 
the battery. Where the distance is greater, 
it may be well to use the higher voltage. 
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