The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-29

Probably the quickest way to ruin a tire is to run it in a defated condition
 It is estimated that 75 per cent. o1 the commerce of the United States starts over the public highways o1 the country. The average American farm is ten miles from a railway, al though in Ohio the distance is less
 A mistake which is made occasion ally by people who have taken the valves off the motor is putting the 1n- let springs where the exhaust waive spring should be. After becoming warm, the action of the exhaust valve is slower, owing to the weaker spring causing a miss in this cylinder.
 Cardboard boxes are never sat1sfac- tory for carrying tubes. Every vibra- tion of the car causes chaf1ng be- tween the box and tube, and since cardboard is harder than rubber, the tubes will inevitably be injured. Gov CTS for inner tubes should take the form of bags which will 1t snugiy around the tube when properly used.
 In order to be able, to purchase gas oline and oil at better rates than could be obtained from local retailers, auto mobile owners in Texarkana, Ark. have formed a cooperative society. II is claimed that arrangements have been made whereby several cents per RdIIOn WILL De SdV0O Ou SdSO14hC.
 Lamp and windshield brackets, etc.. which are desired to go in some dark color corresponding to that of the car body, should, in the absence of a bak- ing oven, be roughened with emery cloth and then given a lead prlmlng coat. Then in due course they should be brought up with color, then one coat varnish color, rubbed and finished with a coat of hard drying varnish.
 A device has been put on the mar ket in France intended to do away with all hand pumping of tires. It is operated by the automobile motor, and is mounted directly on the chas- sis If it should prove feasible it may pave the way to maintaining an average higher pressure in larger sig ed tires-a most desirable feature of motoring which would tend to keep down the general running cost
 That the 3-ton truck will probably never be sufficiently utilitarian for ar- my use, and that If the army mule is to be supplanted by the modern means of transportation, it will be the 11s-t ton truck that will be utilized, are deductions gained by Capt. c. R. Will Hams, U. s. A., in charge of the tests of motor trucks which have been go- ing on since February.
 According to Lord Montagu. who recently made a tour of the United States, the use of the car in England is different from what it is in the United States You use your cars mostly for pleasure driving" he says, ''but we have outgrown that. Our business men use their cars to come to the office. We use them in place of the trains. In our own office there are. gentlemen who come from their homes, forty miles from town, daily in their cars. America has not reached the stage yet where automo- piles are used on a large scale for purposes of utility; here they are used nearly entirely for pleasure purposes. :"
 Hand buffed leather tops seldom re- quire any treatment other than g. gentle wash over with castle soap. Machine buffed leather, when the en- amel becomes worn off. will need, and should have, an application of some reliable dressing. All such dressings, however. should be put on very thin and uniform Mohair tops brushed thoroughly with whisk broom and then gone over with a soft brush, will come forth renewed and freshened up. Pantasote tops may receive some sort of a renovating' treatment to renew lhem when but little worn, and if lNask GAia aka4s@ 0e EsAaaAzaa4 thASI aAAAa4d