American Agriculturist, December 13, 1924 
How Mobiloil “E 
wins your warm 
cold weather friendship 
r I "'HE first snow-storm—Mobiloil “E” in your 
engine. Yon go out in the morning to 
start up. 
A few more turns with the starter, hut that ia 
all. Correctly lubricated, the engine turns almost 
as freely as in warmer weather. With judicious 
use of the choke and a slightly richer mixture, 
your Ford will give you the same reliable service 
in winter as in summer. And with the lightest 
possible burden to the battery. 
For Mobiloil “E” flows freely in the coldest 
weather. The moment you press on the starter 
the oil splashes up and begins to feed to every 
frictional surface—including the close-fitting 
bearings and clutch plates. 
So although the cold cylinders make it harder 
for the gasoline to vaporize, there is no additional 
difficulty imposed by congealed oil which may 
cause stiffness and drag between moving sur¬ 
faces. Mobiloil “E” lets all the parts move 
freely—even on the coldest days. 
Results: A saving of the battery, a saving in 
gasoline, insurance of a perfect oil film over all 
surfaces, a powerful and thoroughly protected 
engine. 
Unsuitable lubricants frequently congeal at low 
temperatures and cause unnecessary stiffness and 
drag. This means added load for the battery, re¬ 
duced cranking speed, and much harder starting. 
Put Mobiloil “E” into your Ford crankcase 
and notice the difference. 
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Late Fall Thoughts 
A Plow Handle Talk 
H. E. Cook 
T AGREE with the 
editor that most 
of us who read agricultural literature like 
to read of the common everyday happen¬ 
ings. These are things we know alxmt 
and we can quickly apply them if they fit 
our business. We can soon find out 
whether or not they are worth while, or 
just fancies and space fillers with a poetic 
make up that 
makes them read¬ 
able. The scheme 
seems easy as 
compared to 
some of the 
underlying prob¬ 
lems of farming 
reserved for our 
leaders, our agri¬ 
cultural states¬ 
men. But it isn’t 
just that way. 
In proclaiming 
some big doc¬ 
trine on say— 
what is the 
matter with farming these days, one does 
not expect to prove his case in detail 
because remedies for all sorts of diseases, 
both physical and economic, act in the 
future. And even if your plan is right, it 
won’t work out exactly as prescribed and 
one has a chance to dodge a bit and 
explain. But daily farm methods, if 
not a fraud, must have been worked out 
before one talks about them. Then 
again there are a lot of things that may 
be good, but one sort of feels that they 
are personal property or rather private 
property and are not for the public. Any¬ 
how, if they are good, you rather some 
one else would tell of them, and if other¬ 
wise we feel about the same except that 
we would like to have that someqne else 
keep still about them. 
Beautiful Days—Weather Breeders 
There are some methods very hard for 
me to decide, as they come up for decision 
many times a day in dealing with folks. 
I know, on general principles, that I get 
on best when I try to get the other 
person’s viewpoint as well as my own on 
the principle that a pleased customer is 
generally a profitable one. But just 
where to draw the fine between having 
him satisfied and protecting your own 
interest is where the rub comes. Not 
every one with whom you deal is unselfish. 
Now I think that a wise decision on this 
thing may have as much to do with getting 
money enough to pay our bills and to 
keep out of bankruptcy as any one single 
thing and yet how to write about it in 
detail I do not know and so I might 
continue at length. 
I am studying every day to make our 
farm organization function efficiently and 
smoothly and when it does I let up or 
rather take a rest. Maybe it is a rest and 
maybe I do some job which does not take 
in the regular farm force—things, I 
mean, that no one else can do expecting 
the farm affairs will sort of move along 
without personal attention. Sometimes 
these peaceful days are breeding some¬ 
thing. Everyone will remember the old 
farmer’s comment on his friend’s con¬ 
gratulations that these were beautiful 
days for farm work—“Yes, but they are 
weather breeders.” This tendency is a 
weakness of mine, chiefly because I 
naturally like to relax and probably the 
only reason I stay up against filings 
somehow every day is because I have to 
do so in order to get a living. 
By H. E. COOK 
at the time of his death 
to have been New 
York’s most distinguished citizen. Of 
course, lie addressed the student body and 
I was amazed when he began without a 
general introduction to his subject to 
give a lecture on corn growing. I was 
at that time giving the classroom work on 
field crops and was supposed to have 
some knowledge of corn and its culture. 
And yet here stood an ex-President of 
Columbia and an ex-Mayor of New 
York making the hot flashes play over 
my face because of ignorance. While at 
the barn he led for fully ten minutes in a 
discussion of milking stools from a useful 
and sanitary standpoint and at equally 
great length of house refrigerators while 
inspecting equipment in the D. S. depart¬ 
ment. Among other things that left a last¬ 
ing impression and which I hope to have 
profited by was this, “When I was elected 
President of Columbia the first I did 
was to set about learning everything I 
did not know about running a university.” 
Afterwards for two years I was a member 
of a tuberculosis committee of which Seth 
Low was an active member where the 
same knowledge of details was always in 
evidence. 
I wonder if you and I have such a 
knowledge of details of our own business? 
If not, we could easily find a couple of 
hours each day to study them. Maybe 
it would help to drive away a feeling that 
farming is bad and that we would be 
better off to quit and do something else. 
Fall as Busy as Summer 
We are as busy in November as in 
summer. Really I feel we are pressed 
harder than in the so-chlled bus}’ season. 
Our milk output does not change and 
animal care increases. Weather condi¬ 
tions are not as favorable and actual 
accomplishments per man hour is less. 
Plowing, cutting brush, harrowing 
fall-plowed land, putting stacked hay in 
the barn, doing fall repair work on build¬ 
ings and tools if necessary and repairs are 
always on hand. While we cannot afford 
to build anew always, we do keep up 
repairs so that the working conditions are 
reasonably good. Present high labor 
costs demand that tools, power, build¬ 
ings, etc., shall at the least be wholesome. 
Not only will we be more efficient as 
workers but there is also an inspiration 
that coaxes us on to more speedy action. 
Study Is Absolutely Necessary 
Studying to know every detail, whether 
we do them all ourselves or not, is 
absolutely necessary. That is what 
makes men. It has been by observation 
that outstanding men and women are 
made so by knowing a lot of little things 
well. 
The state school, during my association 
with it, served as host and hostess for a 
whole day to Seth Low, generally agreed 
Cow Test Work Does Good 
One year ago we joined a local cow test 
association, the first one locally organized 
and it has done me a lot of good. While 
we do a good deal of testing ourselves, 
somehow it doesn’t get hold of a fellow 
like public testing and this year one of the 
outstanding jobs Ls to raise the average 
production of our herd. 
I feel sure now that the high prices 
we get for milk and the constant large 
returns per cow have rather lessened my 
ambition to keep up a high milk or fat 
production over former years. If it 
didn’t cost any more to produce this milk 
than ordinary market milk, everything 
would go along swimmingly. But it 
does cost more and we need high pro¬ 
duction per cow just as much as a market 
milk dairyman. Another factor in our 
game has been the difficulty in getting 
high Jersey and Guernsey producers for 
which I am blaming no one but myself. 
Although I must confess that they are 
not plentiful. I believe the average 
dairyman, if you know who and where 
he is, needs this associated work more 
than he needs any other kind of coopera¬ 
tion that has developed within recent 
times and no expensive equipment nor 
high salaried outfit is necessary to put it 
over. Am I right?—H. E. Cook. 
Have killed one cow and two heifers. 
Expect to kill two more cows. Have 
eight heifers that I will kill if I can sell 
the beef.—M. H. T., Chautauqua 
County, N. Y. 
