The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-19

If a truck Is not driven faster than 15 miles an hour and is not overloaded the life of a set of truck tires should be close to 11,3OO miles.
 If a magneto gets out of order through some serious defect or fancied serious defect, the most sensible plan Is to turn it over to its maker, receiv- Ing in return a new instrument tI is a question whether there is much of a field for the American truck ! in Europe, but there is undeniably plenty of opportunity for it in South American countries and in Australia and the lands of the East. The Highway Safety League, the lat est organization to be formed in Bos- ton, has been finally launched, folloW- ing two months of agitation on the part of the promoters, several of whom are prominent in public life in Boston
 There are over $50 companies engag- ed In the manufacture of automobile and truck accessories in the United States, whose combined capital am cunts to almost $500, 00O,0O. The value of their output in 1911 was $255, 2O2, 900.
 If the chains are so loose that they are apt to fall off, there is great advantage in using the tightening de- vices. On the other hand, chains should not be so tight that they are not free to creep about the tires, or else they will greatly shorten the life Of the casing.
 Thre new motor busses are in opera
 
 ries twenty-eight passengers. The driver collects fares and regulates the temperature and electric lighting of the bus from the separate vestibule which he occupies in front. Push buttons notify when passenger wish es to stop.
 The automobilist desiring the best results and the least carbon from his motor ought to use as light a gaso- line as it is possible for him to secure; should be careful to see that the mo tor is not running on too rich a mix ture; should see that the exhaust pipe and muffler are clean; should keep as much of the road dust possible out of the carbureter and motor, ar d, finally, use only an oil of known merit
 The number of men employed in fac tories which manufacture commercial vehicles varies all the way from eight or ten in some small plants to 10000 Tn some of the establishments which turn out several thousand pleasure cars and trucks a year. The clerks and officials engaged in the factory branch of the industry would make several good-sized regiments, and their salaries, added to the wages of the 50 600 men employed in the works, make up the tidy sum of $65, 900 year.
 The United Kingdom and the British possessions are generally recognized as maintaining the largest collective de- mand on the exported American auto
 
 requirement may be appreciated from the statement that the 1911 shipments to the United Kingdom, Canada and British Oceanica amounted to $12,243,- 544, or over 56 per cent. of the entire amount, while Canada's share o8 ST. 1S0,51 alone is more than one-third of the total.
 The manufa cture of rubber from un- open cotton bolIs may become a real industry in Texas and other Southern States. It is claimed by w. P. Will son, director of the Commercial Mu- scum, Philadelphia, that a process has been discovered for extracting a sub stitute for Vulcanized rubber from the green cotton bolls. and that the cost of manufacturing the product is con siderably less than that of ordinary rubber It has long been known that unripe bolls contain a sticky sub stance, akin to rubber, but until the discovery of the process noted by MT. Wilson for extracting and congea1ng this ingredient was made 1t was gen. orally supposed that it had no com mercial value.
 With a large number of electric alarm signals now fitted to cars, it is not surprising that juveniles find great delight in locating the button which operates such signals and creat- ing a pandemonium in the owners ab- sence. If they were satisfied with a short signal by way of a little fun, things would not be so bad, but when