The evening world. Newspaper, May 5, 1917, Page 7

T What You Should Know About Your Auto; How To Drive.and Keep It Expert Advice How to Keep Automobiles Running Smoothly and the Best Way to Remedy Machine Trouble—Traffic Suggestions and Pleasure Routes for Evening World Readers. By GEORGE H. ROBERTSON, HERE is @ small matter in traffic handling which, while it ts not ‘very important, causes confusion every once if a while. On Fifth Avenue, when turning from the avenue into.« side street or vice versa, it is the rule to pass on the inside of the traffic man at the crossing and not go around him. This is the proper way to change direction, and the scheme should be followed out throughout the city wherever practical. It és rather confusing to the driver who has just turned inside the GEORGE, ROBERTSON traffic man at a Fifth Avenue cor- ner to reach Broadway and instead of turning inside have to go around the trafflo man, who sometimes has a habit of standing just far enough beyond the centre of the street in- tersection to make the turning of the vehicle hard work. A uniform rule might avoid many infractions of traffic laws. Something should be done to clear the traffic conditions of Thirty-fifth Street from.Broadway to Park Ave- nue, The Yehtoular traffic is very heavy on this street, and the num- ber of machines and wagons stand- ing at the curb tends to cause a stoppage of traffic many times during the day. Traffic in this street should be operated in one direction, west prefer- ably. The practice of coal companies, for instance, delivering coal in a Street of this sort during the day should be prevented and delivery made after 6 in the evening. This would ald in clearing the congestion. commentpieasian QUERIES ANSWERED. Automobile Editor When did the first automobile come out and what was the uame of it? G. T. | believe George B. Selden built the first successful automobile. This was in the early seventies. He app! a patent May 8, 1879, which wa: finally issued Nov. 5, 1895. Automobile Kaitor: Do you think spirits of salt and kerosene would be a good carbon re- mover without hurting the engine? ‘Will they mix together? A. G. have never tried this mixture. The best way to remo: scrape it out. An burning. Automobile Baitor: se let me know of knocking, the various besides carbon R. MILLER. ark advance, too high verheating, poor or lit- @ bearings and “gas caus knocking? I have a 1915 Ford and put @ rear end on‘it, making it @ one ton truck.| When it ‘goes uphill at fifteen miles per hour it knocks, What Is cause? BR B-G.T. | e802 reply in thie column to R. Mil- er. Automobile Editor What are the uses on a Ford car of} (1) spark plug, (2) buretor, (3) piston rods, (4) cylinde: JAMES WALSH, used to ignite arburetor is a de-| n explosive mixture (3) You should th connect (4) The and pi Automobile Faitor If I put a commercial bod pleasure car, will it be nec me to get a commercial licen. SIDNE mercial vehicle lic car as a commercial vehicle. Automobile Editor: Is there any way of finding out where low gear is? On Buicks it is on the right, back, and on Overlands it is | ML. |g er positions are usually me manner on the floor ism baffle plate are (hey us Why are the foot brakes and emer gency brakes switched around on some Pierce cars? 3 What do you thi about the one-ton Ford extension 4. What are tumble gears?” Are serviceable? JACK HOPKINS, | 1. These are plates placed in the! bottom of cylinders, having a slot cut in them for the connecting rod to pass through, They are used to pre- vent an excess amount of oil being thrown into the cylinders by the crank EDUCATIONAL, INSTRUCTION, &C | STEWART AUTO SCHOOL The Stewart System of auto- mobile instruction insures your cal against depreciation. ‘ough 0) n you a th knowledge of your car wh: ables you to decrease expel COMPLETE COURSE $55, FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Write for Catalog “E, W,’ 225 W. 57th St. at B’way TEL, 4541 COLUMBUS, ROBERTSON IS RIGHT George H, Robertson, the world's famous driver, $ BY CLASSES FOR LADIES, Call or write for booklet ATKINSON AUTO SCHOOL 25 Wert 50th St. (nee dway), shaft and, connecting rods. 2. The lo- of extensions are yy are correctly de- and operated, they car, 4. which are dropped into mesh, trasted with those which are mesh. last used nault ca Automobile Editor: (1) Can I leave my car in front of a theatre, lights out, providing the street is lit up? (2) While driving a Ford car the other day it suddenly started to race, I turned the switch off, but the motor still raced. I stalled it by pulling the wire and choking it, Can you tell me the cause for this? SAFETY FIRST. (1) No. probably caused by th ng badly over- heated. If any carbon were in thi ‘bon, it would be w the crank case. Aufomodile Bai (1) L want to get a license to drive also to put fresh pilin a Ford, May 1 demonstrate on my own car? (2) What advantage is ob- tained by using only two cylinders? (3) What is the method of producing steam in the Doble car, and how many cylinders are used? AL BEACOME. (2) A two-cylinder motor 88 space, ie lower in manu- facturing cost and requires less labor, it has fewer parts. (3) The Dob! steam car has a two-cylinder engine mounted on and part of the rear axle. Steam for this engine is pi red in a flash type generator having some patented, | be- by the Doble people. vile Ealitor Kindly publish the rule regarding MAJOR LEAG Compiled by Moreland News Bureau al League Batting Average, of pI who have played in ten games. Huding May 2, and who have an average of 200 tt layers and Clubs, Ww Hetae ESTELLE MULQUEEN ‘TO BE JUNE BRIDE WHEN SHE WEDS JAMES REILLY | 9 STE ELE Priore SE eke en te” James Reilly June 9. is @ daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Michael | Joseph F, Mulqueen, and is a Vassar | graduate, the number plates on autos. I notice Commercial and others. different kinds are there? W. X. W. T three ki cabs | pe! ued by the Se of State are standard in all parts of | New York State. Automobile Editor nst compression so as to slow car g downhill at twenty to sixty| es an hour when brak JOSEPH N ngine com- | nding hills | mp with high g engaged ru very steop, one of thi arin m: down Automobile Editor: Two weeks after having 1917 Ford overhauled I find the oll leaks through spark plug No. 3, Car was returned to repair shop, and I was told the trouble was caused by broken com- mutator wires. Had new ones in- stalled, and it still leaks, Is there any other fault which would cause Jeak? W.J.K. | Broken commutator wir could | have absolutely nothing to do with) getting on a spark plug. This could arise from two caus: faulty location | of the spark plug or an excess of oi! in the combustion chamber. | would | i to examine the piston are probably at fault, Automobile Editor: I have been riding, racing and handling motoreycles for the past four years, and was anxious to attend the meeting at De Witt Clinton High| School last Saturday evening, but ow- ing to the death of my father was un- ble to do sc. Could you get a blank! from this meeting and LEO BROWN, ¢ you to communicate ittee in charge. pplication send it to me Would adi with the com: UE AVERAGES | American I rh ne Average.| din ten games, May 2, and who lave an average of 200 | tubs, Hy, ave. ee ry 1 » 838 How to Plan, Plant HE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1917. “Plant a Plot’’ And Care for Your Distance apart in ro) (early) $—4 inohes Home Vegetable Garden |? (22 °° Sse (ima) . 4—6 inches [trod (pole) . 4 foot ARTICLE V.—Planting the “Tender” Vegetables :|| Brussels Sprouts 18 (aches late inches Rules for Transplanting. Carrot .... .. 2—4 inohes The Evening World's Home Gorden League is designed to . || C&uliflower (planta). 2 feet Promote the employment of back yards and other available space Se ts ar for home vegetadle growing. Enrolment consists only in “planting Corn (main crop) « 4 foot @ plot.” A consulting agrioulturist, Mr. F. F. Rockwell, has been ‘ 4 feet engaged by The Evening World.to contribute every Saturday au- . 2 feet thoritative articles on vegetadle growing. Bvery Tuesday he wilt aah 4 oaae eaenee answer readers’ questions on gardening sudjects., Report to The Lr prind bite cake: Sas on Evcuing World the progress you make im your garden and ask for Pens (ate) .jrccccee O=—d fest any helpful information you may desire. oy Ana (plants) Ran foot UE ssc isbeee inohes By F. F. Rockwell, Consulting Agriculturist. BAndah. Coemmnnty cae tnt (Author of “Home Vegetable Gardening,” “Around the Year in the Garden,” éc.)|| Squash (winter) 6—8 feet Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) || Tomato (plants) .. §—4 feet of the early or “hardy” crops was|} Turnip .... .... «+ 4—6 inchee p an earlier article the planting tropical or ewhtropical in character, there is always danger of planting too early, especially on the part of the beginne! @ hurry and anxious to get all his planting done at the earliest possible Miss Estelle Mulqueen will marry | date. Miss Mulqueen | loving” vegetables. J. Mulqueen and a niece of Justice ag we seem to be in for now this year, such plants as tomatoes, peppers and eggplants will make little progress and may become permanently stunted; and seed of the tender things, euch as cucumbers, melons, okra and squash, are likely to rot im the ground instead of sprouting. some plates are marked Omnibus,| same may be said of beets and corn, How many ‘to fal | tender vegetables, in a year like th jis to get all the preparations made, How could I run a Ford.1917 model | including the making and the enrioh- ling of the hills, as previously de- are out of | scribed, and then weather, dcys do come, get your seeds and plant in as rapidly as possible. course, if you have some glas | protectors or forcers, described last Saturday, you will not be so dependent upon the weather and can go ahead with your work more according to schedul x W ‘cans ahould be planted on edge | if allowed to sprawl a I ath Teneye “down, Shove the bean,|ground, if trained to a st ke oF . xi intervais of two or three inches, | trellis, and kept true to or tw Ss| of growth, ing the small garden liere is a simple method of gettin +) an extra ¢ corn, | two 1 olive. Soak the seed from twenty-lwinter. ‘The fact that | four to forty-eight hours, and then! tinuousiy until frost Boe it with leaf mold or humus or|jjanting, is another fact which | dry, light soil and then plant olreatly to their value for tho v2 / rst planting should only be covered | garden Another importan lightly, an inch or so deep. Wonile|qhout the tomato is its fre: fis usually planted in hills a bet-| injury of insects or dis« it method for the small garden 18 4/tho whole, one of the very tinuous row, dropping the seed | nots,” especially for the beginner. to three inches apart and a ‘The most general source of troub soon as it is well stat with tomatoes is the loss of the out to the strongest plants through cut wor ortly them eight to ten !n apart, This or setting them out, If you will | will give just a8 many plants a8 yOU!go to the slight additional expense of) sowing four seeds to| buying strong, potted plants, you will {|Goldea B "| the Ave. Jand to keep the rest dry. xceptionally nutritio! Flors 1000) planting, see that some of ; Landscape Gardeners and 100 | covered a little deeper than the re ts, Landscape Gardeners 1000 | say from half an inch to an inch dees Growers have obtained wo 1] Only three or four plants will be ft lt A 0 used for gris, 3h 1Xel wanted to each hill, but usu lawn, vegetable ywer gare ® “4 {O00 | twelve to fifteen seeds are sown, * potted pla ail tar 0 4 1000] of these will fail to come up, and cu ing purpose o ' 10090] worms or insect enemies are like to Humus, Bone Meal, Ground ° 100! get a few more, #0 that usually the peg ee en pete eae 4 o js not much thinning out to do by t Lime, Par ldshvde, 7] continuous row, »| more “mortality” 1s likely to be the result, And this {s often worse than a total failure, because one often fails to re-plant until too late, in the hope of (all that they will finally begin to grow as they should, mation is given the various plants much seed is required, how deep to plant and no forth. There are other t with many of attempt to take up as fully as pos- | sible in the brief space of this ‘The matter of varieties I have already discussed at length, BEANS—The early string or snap beans are a little hardier than the wax beans and can be planted a few days earlier, plantings of quite shallow, balf reer an is at all heavy. germination if sand or humus can be distributed in the soil before planting the seed and mixed with the soli with which they are |be much ee come easier. the whole seed is pushed up throu ‘b} the ground, and if the latter Is wet, heavy and cakes it 1s almost impos- sible for a sprouting root to shove its pole and dwarf. derest of all and should not be planted | until the last. To save the seed and to make sure of better germination, into the osition, oF so of the lightest soll you can get, or with humus or sand, RN—Some of the hardiest varile- A ‘of early corn are not much on quality. The one which this case to have t 5 quality with hardiness to the greatest! riched with poultry none extent, together with a dwarf habit) gust or some similar quick acting and which admits close plaut-|ptrective fertilizer. would have by a hill, trout are a num! along W | CUCUMBERS | sprout aq | conditions are favorable, will survive, discussed and the necessity of getting them into the ground and started 4s early as possible was emphasized. With the tender crops, which are but will gi The slight cost on a dozen or so of pla is not worth considering, as against the advantages given by strong, pot grown plants over the averago “flat” grown plants, In transporting and transplanting the root system is not disturbed, so that the plants, in addi- tion to being much stronger when set out, begin thelr growth In the soil without any check and several days sooner than the latter. PEPPER AND EGGPLANT — Plants, while not s0 important as tomatoes, yield fairly well for the who is likely to be in Nothing is gained, however, by attempting to “rush” these “heat It fs not enough that they just escape the late frost. While the ground is wet, as {t remains in a late, backward spring such The although they are not quite so likely because germinating very quickly, if they get a few warm days . We space occupied, although they are of license | Just after planting, they will be on the safe side so far as germination|not, of COUP a8 profitable +f ro it {4s concerned. But a weak, backward growth with a high percentage of|Crops such aw beets, carrots and turnips, The advantage of getting “pot plants" here is greater than in the case of tomatoes excopt that per- haps getting an early yield is not quite so important, CELERY — While celery ts not a tender crop it is usually grown jate so that !t may follow some early crop, and because {f grown to mature in the summer !t is usually of very tn- ferior quallty compared to that which matures in the cool weather of the fall, Plants for early celery may be set out the latter part of this month The thing to do with all these ; rminate have a of the seed will be left to @ few days after when it will chance of coming through. MELONS—What ts true of cucumbers applies equally to musk melor t may be well to take occasion here to emphasize the fact that mus! melons and cucumbers, even if planted side by side, will not mix the first year. Both melons and cu- cumbers, especially the latter, can be grown in a smaller space that that usually required by ti ing them up, either on short “brush” or on regular trellis. SQUASH—Squash seeds are much stronger and more vigorous than those of melons and cucumbers and produce plants which are much stronger in in the early stages of growth. ‘They can bo planted a little earlier and six to eight seeds to the hill will be plenty, Otherwise, they should receive about the same treat- ment. All the ving crops are especially susceptible to the injury from in- sects during their early stages of growth. If it is posstble to protect them with glass forcers or even with shallow bottomless boxes covered with mosquito netting, the chances of proving successful with them on one's Jirst venture will be about doubled. PLANTS TO BE SET OUT. All of the foregoing are usually planted from seed, although most of them can be started early in paper or flower pots as descrided in last week's article, ‘There are several other of the late vegetables, however, which are practically always put out as growing plants Instead of being planted from seed, These are to- matoes, pepper ege; ants and cu- cumbers. TOMATOES portant piants for Jas for the large garden plant will occupy considera wait for warm When the bright, sunny or uch as Wwe! In the accompanying tabl to how far apart jould be put, how 1 to be considered in connection ayiygers them, which I will rticle, ‘The first two or thi beans should be mi covering them only @ inch deep if the ground | It will help to insure covered; they will thus likely to rot and will When a bean sprouts head” up through the soil. This is specially true of lima beans, both These are the ten- ve one of the most tm- the small as well je each main siatks, the yield of first class fruits will be as much or even more, | and the space required may be little as 1%4x2 feet, In fact, even less, if there is a boundary fence against which they can be trained. Special ca hould be tak however, In nia. oa well en- ‘soil sufficiently to hold it in ‘and cover it with an inch combines the tomatoes possible should be grown, because they cannot only be ‘aten raw, prepared Jad and cooked in numerous ways, but they are ona of the vegetabl ‘@ matter of great importance in is Golden Bantam A rly start with your sweo when warm weather does finolly urce han the} are well le trouble from a little plants have lit ey will cost ‘inary ‘flat It is le plants | 6 for devel- | ¢ th feet apart these individual better chai Bantam has prac: | Naturally Decayed Stable HORSE, CATTLE & SHEEP Manure Dried, Pulverized or Shredded Th manure is olor ! iden ed in removing st yellow corn which do which make large itam is one the same jen Bantam, w ssion planting, these, in as a The best way of ting a good stand of cucumbers fr¢ the first planting 18 to Boak about which you expect to pl Join The Evening World’s “‘Home Garden League’’ PLANTING CHART FOR ‘TENDER’ VEGETABLES (PLANT “TENDER” AND “SUCCE! MAY 1 ON.) They will prove If wanted only for fall and wint ION” VEGETABLES FROM Distance Seed: between rows. for 18 inches 15—24 Inches Ipint 18—24 Inches Lpint 4 foet % pint 12 inches 12—16 inches lounce 1—2 inches 2 feet 35 - 2—8 feet 25—35 - 12—15 inches ounce % Inch 2—3 feet cid ~ 2—8 foot 100 - 3—4 feet Mpint i—2inches 4 feet % pint + 2—3 inches 4 feet % ounce %—1 inch 2% feet 25 - 12—l6 inches = % ounce 4—% Inch 4—6 feet % ounce % inch 6—4 foot % ounce % Inch a—4 feet lpint 2—8 inches 2% feet 25 - 1 foot %4 ounce % inch 4—6 feet “ounce %4—% Inch 6—8 feet % ounce 4—% inch 4—6 feet 16—20 _- 1Ginches % ounce %—% Inch when it is at ite best, there is plenty of time by the middle of June to the middle of July to set the plants out, The old-fashioned way of planting them used to be to plant them in the bottom of a deep trench and to fill it up gradually as the plants grew. Now they are usually planted on the level, ike other vegetables, hilled up lightly as they grow and blanched with soll, or speolally prepared bleaching paper for early use, and put into a trench for late fail and winter use, They need especially rich soit and poultry or sheep manure, or bone meal, should be worked in along the row before setting th In transplanting the plan‘ to get any soll over the the planta, TRANSPLANTING, Where you have plants to set out, the ground should be just as carefully Prepared as it ts for planting seeds. Mark out straight rows and then measure and mark off the distances to show just where each plant is to be set. With the trowel or the hoe then dig out a hole, in the bottom of which the manure or fertilizer can be mixed with the soll and, if (he latter is dry, a quart or so of water can be poured in. Then fill in the holeg fr the sufficient amount of water for t| full top growth. As a result plant ts inclined to “wilt,” ospectaily is hot and dry, The the top, in turn, interferes ‘k to be di if this reason it is always here possible, to do transplanting on a cloudy day or rather late In the noon, it gives the roots to begin to establish contact with t! soll and td absorb moisture before the tops are exposed to the bright sunshine. By far the biggest single cause of loss in setting out plants is that they are not put in firmly enough. Don't be afraid to pack the soll down around the roots just as firm and as hard as you can get it—there is very little danger of your overdoing it, Ualess it is a very wet, clayey soll, and in such 4 caso the transplanting shor 1 not be attempted until it bas dried out antittie more anyway. t ‘ After setting out the plants, give the whole surface, between the rows and bet thé plants, @ thoroug! raking 0’ this is not for the looks alone, although that would be sv ficient reward for the slight work in- volved, but to make the surface fins and level so that the soil will dry out quickly on top; this dry top soll forms a mulch which will help retain tho moisture in the soil for a long time. The siath article in this series will de published next Saturday. —_—_—__—ee ERNET TTT SWEETEN THE STOMACH AID DIGESTION | TR HOSTETTER’S Stomach Bitters It helps Nature tn m. ways $ 5 2 br = Greet Our War Guests With This Decorative Poster IN STRONG COLORS 18 x 21 INCHES time the final reduction in nun has to be made, Cucumbers, like sweet corn, while usually planted In hills, can just as well be put in in a the plants to stand about a foot apart, If the seed can In Bags, Bulk or Box Cars Call or Write for Your Supply at Once, So As to Assure Shipment Small or Large Orders Rec be covered with & Nght soll, pre the Same Careful Attention, ferably with that In which sand or “ humus has been mixed, as in the case M. McGIRR'S SONS CO. of corn, germination will be so much PERTILIZING MATEIIALS, certain, The advantage in 264 West Mth St., N. Y. City, aking some of the seed, but not all of It, 18 that that which is soaked will several days sooner, and if G. W. 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