or a 
would work all right under scrutiny, 
only to go dead out in the open spaces, 
compelling resort to the humiliating 
starting crank. 
When the battery is weak, it is ad¬ 
visable always to use the starting- 
crank, to save the great drain of the 
I starter on the stored electricity. The 
generator feeding the battery should 
always be on the job, and if it is, and 
the battery plates are right, the tourist 
is not apt to have a weak battery, un¬ 
less he is careless about leaving the 
motor switch on, or burns his lights 
too much. Day driving with few stops 
and few drains on the battery for 
starter, or lights, is almost sure to 
overload the battery, and tourists must 
always remember that in arid regions, 
anywhere west of the Missouri River, 
beyond the Mississippi and Gulf hu- 
, midity belts, the battery requires two or 
’ three times as much distilled water as 
east of the Mississippi. 
In fact, a tourist will do well to have 
his battery filled with distilled water 
not twice a month according to direc¬ 
tions, but even as often as twice a 
week, and certainly every week, regu¬ 
larly, anywhere west of the Colorado- 
Nebraska line. In actual deserts, water 
evaporates with incredible rapidity. 
We put five gallons into our radiator 
one day in the Great Salt Lake desert, 
starting with it full. Ample supplies 
of oil, water and gasoline save trouble. 
Where clutches are leatherfaced, the 
leather should frequently be doused 
with Neatsfoot oil, otherwise the dried- 
®ut leather will “grab.” In sand and 
alkali, the clutch is sure to accumulate 
grit, and an occasional washing with 
gasoline will save the leather, and also 
:save the wracking which is entailed by 
the instantaneous thrust of the motor’s 
full power through the shafts and gears 
to the wheels. 
A tow line is a double boon. It may 
enable one to tow in the other fellow, 
in his hour of need; or it may enable 
one to reach town through the courtesy 
of a fellow tourist; a tow line, too, 
may serve for many purposes from tent 
hanging to tying up a loose spring, 
whose saddle bolts are broken. My own 
preference is for a fifty foot length of 
manilla half inch rope, or even an inch 
rope. I once used rope wrapped around 
a rim to come in on, when I had no tire 
repairs or pump with me. 
Hay wire, or as it is called haybale 
or haytie wire, is soft, strong iron wire 
of great tensile strength. This is a 
universal repair fastener in the West, 
and in farm countries. It serves a 
hundred purposes. When one of my 
springs weakened, we put a block of 
wood on the axle, and made it fast with 
haywire. It will serve to lash several 
thicknesses of tire shoes over the axles, 
:o make bumpers instead of blocks of 
wood. It will tie up springs, 
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