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Handy Helps About the Car 
Getting- Service from the Spare Tire-Care of the Battery 
AS a rule the spare tire does not give 
its share of service. Heat, moisture 
and improper care get in their deadly 
work and make the tire old even if it is 
not used. 
I have found it a good plan to “rest” 
one tire for .300 miles and then put it back 
hi service again, “resting” one of the 
other tires. On a new car, for instance, 
the spare tire would be put in service at 
the end of 500 miles and one of the regular 
tires carried as a spare. After another 
500 miles this tire would again be put in 
service and another rested—and so on 
until the round is made.—P. T. Hines. 
Best results will be obtained by paint¬ 
ing these terminals with gear grease 
(“G00W” or “steam cylinder oil”, as it is 
often called) every time the battery is 
given distilled water. For doing this 
work, keep a cup of the grease and a 10- 
cent varnish brush in some handy 
place.—P. T. Hines. 
r “I’ll buy two sets when I’m in town 
tomorrow—one to replace yours and 
another for myself,” was his final remark. 
P. T. Hines. 
A Use For Old Lubricating Oil 
Carry Spare Light Bulbs 
4 = * * 
Care of Battery Terminals 
'T'HE new battery is not likely to give 
A trouble if it is refilled w ith distilled 
water every week or ten days. But as 
soon as a battery is put into use the 
terminals begin to corrode. While this 
corrosion is not immediately disastrous, 
it will soon lead to improper battery 
connections. 
To prevent corrosion it is usually sug¬ 
gested that they be greased w r ith vaseline. 
This is w ell and good but I have found the 
vaseline not quite fluid enough to give 
best results. It will not seep into the 
small crevices of the connections where 
corrosion is most likely to start. 
V 
OAY, Hines,” said a neighbor to me 
^ the other Sunday night after church, 
“will you lend me one of the light bulbs 
from your car headlights? The bulbs in 
my headlights are burned out. I can 
manage to get home w ith a single lamp 
and perhaps you can do the same.” 
“I could get home with a single head¬ 
light, perhaps, and so could you,” was 
my reply, “but such one-light driving is 
dangerous. Anyone meeting you in a 
car cannot tell on which side of the ear the 
single light is burning and the result may 
be a collision. 
“Better than lending you a single bulb, 
I can let you have a full set, as I always 
carry ‘spares’.” 
“You carry spare light bulbs just as 
you do a spare tire and tubes?” the 
neighbor asked. 
“I certainly do. They are just about 
as important.” 
What will you save? 
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Hartford 
Fire Insurance 
Company 
Hartford, Conn. 
If a fire started in your barn tonight, what 
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Remember this: For practically every risk 
a farmer takes there is insurance in the 
Hartford Fire Insurance Company, Insure 
your buildings and their contents, your grain, 
feed, machinery, live stock, everything that 
might be damaged or destroyed by fire, light¬ 
ning, hail or windstorm. 
The Hartford local agent specializes in 
farm insurance. Ask him for a copy of “My 
Property” or write to the company. It is free. 
It makes it easy to figure the amount and 
kind of insurance you need. 
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.on an Insurance Policy 
Gentlemen: 
I operate a.acre farm. 
Please send me a free copy 
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INSURE IN THE 
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TTAVE the old lubricating oil when 
A drained from the automobile, truck, 
or tractor crankcase and use it for oiling 
squeaky springs on the car or truck. 
When springs begin to squeak, simply 
squirt this old oil all over them with a 
grease gun. If no grease gun is avail¬ 
able, pour on the oil with an old tin cup. 
Avoid splashing the oil on the car body, 
wheels, or tires. 
This oil, being of light body, will seep 
between the leaves of the springs and 
thoroughly lubricate them. The springs 
will then collect dust, of course, but to no 
greater degree than when they are 
lubricated in other ways. This method 
utilizes a waste product; the work may be 
quickly done.— P. T. Hines. 
* * * 
Make Use of Automobile Door Pockets 
A UTOMOBILE door pockets are 
Ta made for convenience, so why not 
use them and at the same time keep them 
in decent order instead of filling them 
with junk? 
In one pocket it is well to keep a small 
kit of often-used tools—screwdriver, 
pliers, one or tw r o small wrenches together 
with ignition system wrench and spark 
plug and breaker-point gauges. This 
same pocket may also hold one or two 
extra spark plugs, a tire repair outfit, a 
box of extra light bulbs for the car, a tire 
pressure gauge, a pocket knife or pair of 
scissors, and a handful of cotton waste 
together with some preparation for 
removing grime from the hands. 
Another pocket should be supplied with 
a large bath towel, a dust mop or brush, 
and a whisk broom. Several clean rags 
of various sizes will be found useful also. 
If a pair of overalls are carried for 
emergency, they may also be placed in 
one of the door pockets, though the wife 
will as a rule give up only two pockets to 
the driver—in which case the overalls 
must be placed under one of the seats. 
A good plan is to wrap the overalls about 
the curtain rods or tools which will cut 
out much rattle.—P. T. Hines. 
Why Overcharge Batteries? 
What is an overcharge for the ordinary cell of a farm 
lighting-plant battery?—J. D. N., New York. 
A N overcharge is ordinarily given for 
■f*- any one or all of three reasons. First 
it may be given to compensate at regu¬ 
lar intervals for any undercharging the 
battery may have received between over¬ 
charging periods. That is, it is not nec¬ 
essary to bring a battery to an absolute 
state of full charge each time it is re¬ 
charged. However, inasmuch as under¬ 
charging, if persisted in, would be detri¬ 
mental to the battery, an overcharge is 
recommended at regular intervals to 
break up any sulphate which may have 
been left in the battery at the end of the 
intermediate charges. 
For various reasons, all of the cells in 
a battery may not discharge uniformly, 
especially if the battery has discharged 
intermittently. In case one or more 
cells have discharged more than the 
others, an overcharge given periodically 
would compensate for this bringing up 
the cells which were lower to a state of 
full charge, even though the others may 
be charged slightly more than is neces- 1 
sary. / 
A third reason for an overcharge is that 
it is necessary to keep the electrolyte 
in all of the cells well stirred up just 
enough to keep it from getting stronger 
in the bottom of the cells than on the 
top. An overcharge should be carried 
sufficiently far to cause all of the cells to 
gas freely thereby creating agitation. 
