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American Agriculturist, January 19, 1924 
Cooling Gas Engines in 
Winter 
Will you kindly advise me if it is a safe thing to use 
lamp oil or kerosene in a car for cooling instead of water? 
Would it be dangerous and would it keep the motor as 
cool as water would?—D. S. B., Pennsylvania. 
W E have known of a number of 
people who' have used kerosene as 
a circulating medium to keep their auto¬ 
mobile engines cool. However, we are not 
particularly enthusiastic about kerosene 
as a cooling agent for a motor car, because 
it does have certain rather serious objec¬ 
tions. Incidently we have heard of seri¬ 
ous accidents from the practice. 
In the first place, the boiling point of 
kerosene is way up nearly to 400° F., 
which means that there is a possibility 
that the engine may become seriously 
overheated before the driver is aware of 
the condition. When kerosene is heated 
it evaporates rapidly and the gas driven 
off is inflammable and very easily ignited. 
The odor of heated kerosene is also very 
disagreeable and seems to permeate every¬ 
thing about the car. The vapor also 
seems to have a tendency to get all over 
everything, and we have noticed on the 
interior of closed cars when engines were 
cooled with kerosene that everything 
seems coated with a sort of a greasy mist. 
Rotting of the rubber tubing in the circu¬ 
lating system is also promoted. 
Of course, the big advantage of kero¬ 
sene is that it will not freeze, and if you 
think that all the objections which I have 
listed above are not enough to discourage 
you, when all things are concerned, you 
will probably just have to take your 
chances with it. 
Honey the Latest Non-Freezer 
The use of htmey and water as an anti¬ 
freezing solution for automobile cooling 
systems has been tested by the rural en¬ 
gineers at the New York State College of 
Agriculture. They say that they began 
their experiments a year ago on trucks 
and tractors used on the college farms and 
found the solution both satisfactory and 
inexpensive. 
To make the solution, one part of honey 
and one part of water should be mixed by 
boiling so that impurities may rise to the 
surface and be skimmed off. This solu¬ 
tion is then poured in the radiator to 
within an inch and one-half from the top 
of the radiator. This space must be 
allowed for expansion. 
If the solution gets low in the radiator, 
more water may be added while the car 
is in use. It is important that all gaskets 
be in good condition and all joints tight. 
Experiments indicate that this solu¬ 
tion is satisfactory even when the mercury 
gets to 14 degrees below zero. At this 
temperature the mixture is no longer 
liquid, but it can be readily stirred with a 
rod. 
The solution contracts with cold and 
expands with heat. 
WhyJ Prefer Improved Varieties 
i (Continued from page 51) 
varieties. Look at the development of 
Cornell 11 in Cayuga County, N. Y. It 
lias turned out to be one of our most desir¬ 
able varieties for certain sections for both 
grain and ensilage. Still, I personally 
know some folks in those very sections 
where that variety does so well, who are 
“mooching along” on home-made mixed 
varieties, if they may be called varieties, 
that don’t yield one-two-three compared 
to Cornell 11. And yet they kick because 
the farm bureau never did anything for 
them, and they take every opportunity 
to take a slam at the college of agriculture 
and its “book farmers.” 
Of course, this variety idea can be, and 
often is, carried too far. We will always 
have scoundrels in our midst. Just re¬ 
cently there have been reports of a seed 
dealer roping in unsuspecting victims 
with a fake variety of oats. The salesmen 
show a fine looking sample, but oh, the 
product! It therefore comes down to the 
reliability of the grower and dealer. Seed- 
growers to-day realize the fact that they 
cannot get careless with their seed and 
they are not putting out untried varieties. 
They are pretty sure of themselves first, 
for they are not in business for one year. 
Now let’s take the factors of increased 
yield and labor. To be sure the old prin¬ 
ciple of “making two blades grow where 
one grew before” is not very popular right 
now when they tell us we are growing more 
farm produce than is needed to bring a 
fair return. In fact, that has been the 
basis for one of the arguments that some 
have used consistently against the farm 
bureaus of our various States. The fault 
with the argument is that it does not go 
far enough. If, by using an improved 
variety of seed with high-yielding powers, 
we can grow the same amount of potatoes, 
corn, oats, wheat or any other crop on ten 
acres that formerly' required fifteen, 
THAT IS GOOD BUSINESS. It means 
that we can convert a lot of our less pro¬ 
ductive land to meadows and pasture land. 
Furthermore, there is a whole lot less 
labor required on smaller acreage, which is 
a factor that is not to be overlooked these 
days when labor wants three-fourths of 
everything. If we can produce the same 
amount on less land and with less labor, 
it is good management to do so. Of 
course, there are some conditions under 
which good seed would not function so 
perfectly, but it is my honest belief that 
such “conditions” would be a lot better 
off right now if they were growing timber. 
What do you think?—G. W. M. 
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