Please mention Gas Review when writing. WANTED-Every owner and prospective buyer of wood stave silos to write for our catalog describing the Peerless Self-Adjusting Lugs, Peerless Twin Silo Hoops, Peerless Combination Hinge Door and Hoop Connector and other supplies that will enable you to build your own silo at a low price. Order a set of Peerless Self-Adjusting Lugs now and put them on your old silo in spare time; your silo will be better than new, and also produce better silage. for the reason it makes the silo air tight as a bottle, which is very important in making good silage. They will pay for themselves in one season. Our customers say it is just what they have long been looking for. PEERLESS SILO SUPPLY CO. National Oil Engine DOVER FEED MILLS Cheaper power, better service spells greater profit for you. A National Oil Engine will bring this about. It burns all the lower grades of oils. It is simple in design, substantial in construction, has no complicated parts, requires no batteries, magnetos, hot tubes, spark plugs, carburetors or mixing valves. The earlier you install one the greater your saving will be. 12 to 100 H. P. Get our catalog and prices. Do it now. National Steam Pump Company Upper Sandusky, Ohio Patented July 1, 1913 Don't fail to look into this. buy on the market today. For THE latest improved mill on the market. Note the rugged construction. Absolutely no danger of twisting out of shape, binding of shaft or excessive wear. Dover mills are built along the best lines for economy, durability and convenience. Illustration shows mill with bolter and elevator. A complete outfit in every particular. It's the best stone burr mill to catalog and prices write H. E. QUICKEL, DOVER, PENN. Please mention Gas Review when writing. "QUICK ACTION" IGNITION APPARATUS MAGNETOS Send for Catalogue K Describing Our Full Line THE KNOBLOCK-HEIDEMAN MFG.co. SOUTH BEND, INDIANA ard is not compulsory; it is voluntary. There are many details that should not be standardized, and many that cannot. For example, to set forth a detail standard design for a connecting rod or for an igniter rod of any design or shape would be manifestly impossible. The shape and weight of a connecting rod for any given engine depends upon so many details connected with that particular engine that they may be absolutely wrong for all others. Likewise a set of valve springs suitable for a given engine is rarely right for any other. Therefore it is out of the question to attempt to standardize springs as a whole or sets of springs as a whole. The membership of the standards committee should be made up of men possessing every variety of knowledge in the engine building art. The chairman of a sub-committee, as a rule, suggests certain standards. These standards are considered at meetings and through correspondence. Once a report is made by one of these subcommittees it is submitted to the standards committee as a whole. The subject matter should be put before them in writing and also in open meeting. If the standards committee as a whole approves the work of the division committee, then the matter should go to the governing committee of the Association, carrying the standard committee's recommendation for acceptance. The governing committee usually decide whether or not it shall be put before the whole society in open meeting for discussion. If so, a printed report shall be prepared and laid before the whole membership of the Association so that all may be familiar with the substance of the proposed standard. Discussion should be invited in every possible manner, and adverse criticism usually causes the report to be returned to its division for reconsideration and alteration. Affirmative action or approval on the part of the Association as a whole, by all those present, carries with it the recommendation of the matter as standard. It should then be printed in the bulletin of the Association and placed before the membership for ready reference, perhaps in data sheet form. Paper read by Joseph A. Anglada, at the annual meeting of the National Gas Engine Association at Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 4, 5 and 6. The present strength of the United States regular army is sixty-five thousand men. If the regular army reserves, of which there are a few thousand, were called out and the different regular army organizations were enlisted up to their war strength, there would be about eighty-five thousand. Any further increase in the army would have to come from the volunteers. In case of war the first to be called upon would be the organized militia, of which there are about one hundred thousand, having a little military training. Any additional force would have to come from the mass of the people who are wholly untrained in military affairs. More Gold Medals for Lauson Engines. The Lauson engines were awarded the gold medal, the highest award, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Australia, where they were exhibited recently; also the gold medal at the California State Fair, where they were exhibited last month, in competition with thirty-six other well known makes. A large increase of business is assured the manufacturers from Australia and the Pacific Coast states, from the fine showing these engines have made. The Lauson kerosene engines were awarded the blue ribbon, the highest honor, for the best operating oil engine exhibited at the Mississippi State Fair, also at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair held at Meridian, Mississippi. The Lauson oil engines embody new ideas in cheap fuel carburization, the satisfactory use of which has been the hardest problem of the gas engine builder for the past five years. Owing to the simplicity and smooth running of these engines wherever exhibited, they assure the trade that the same high standard of perfection is incorporated in the Lauson oil engines as is found in the well known Lauson Frost King gasoline engines. There are a great many Brahmins and Mohammedans in India whose religion strictly prohibits them from drinking any alcoholic beverages. They are also prohibited from eating or drinking anything prepared by people of any other caste. This makes it very difficult to sell food supplies in a large part of India. An interesting incident in connection with caste prejudices is related by one of our consuls, who states that aerated waters are finding ready sale. They do not run counter to any caste prejudices because they are prepared entirely by machinery. According to the last census, the hens of this country produce more eggs annually and have continued to do so for the last fourteen years. Yet in spite of increased production, the price steadily rises until this year it is from forty to fifty cents a dozen. Why? No one knows for certain. The Department of Agriculture says, "cold storage." Who profits by the high prices? Certainly not the farmer. He sells in early summer at low prices and the eggs disappear until winter, when they appear at fabulous prices. Perhaps it is cold storage that is to blame. The special session of Congress that President Wilson called immediately after his inauguration came to an end with the opening of the regular long session on December first. There are many important measures to be taken up, chief among which is the matter of currency reform or a reformation of our present banking methods. Solve Your Power Problems By Installing a Huber Gas Tractor I T WILL both make you money and save it. The Huber is noted for its fuel economy and its great power. It matters not what work you have for a tractor to do, we can suit you. For moderate farm work or hauling, such as pulling four plows, we have the 15-30; a two-cylinder opposed motor, doing easily the work of several teams of horses. We recommend this tractor particularly for the medium size farm and for the orchard; and for road work. The big tractor, the 30-60, will do anything that is too hard for the small one to undertake. It is a powerful puller, hauling stone wagons, graders, or plows, with ease. For farm use, it is the all around engine. Do your plowing, seeding, harvesting, threshing, hauling, shredding with it. The longer you have it the more kinds of work you will find that it is suited for. When you are ready to consider a thresher for 1914 use, we would like to make you a proposition on a Huber Complete Thresher to run with one of our Tractors. It provides a threshing outfit unexcelled. In the meantime we will be glad to furnish you our descriptive literature on request. The Huber Manufacturing Co. 680 Center Street, MARION, OHIO Please mention Gas Review when writing, CORRESPONDENCE A department where all may speak and where all will be heard. Send us some good live letters for next issue. I am enclosing a picture of my 6-horse power Weber gasoline tractor wood saw which I built out of two Deering corn binders. All the trucks have roller bearings as has also the differential shaft. This tractor works exceptionally well. I can climb the worst hills in the country without much difficulty. I have sawed sixteen hundred eight-foot rails in six hours and a half and the engine works perfectly. I made my own differential gear. I have averaged one dollar per hour for all the sawing I have done. I have a twenty W. O. WRIGHT, MANSFIELD, MO., SAYS HIS TRACTOR WORKS WELL AND CAN CLIMB THE STEEPEST HILLS. eight inch saw; you can see how it is built. From left to right in the picture you see R. R. Wright, my brother, W. N. Draper, Herbert Short, and my four-year-old son, Raymond Wright. Back of the engine is E. E. Short, and on the seat is myself and four months' old baby. I am an expert at the gas engine business and have had the best of success, but I would not do without GAS REVIEW. If a man will study what GAS REVIEW teaches and is a mechanic that is all he needs. W. O. WRIGHT. Mansfield, Mo. I have been a reader of GAS REVIEW for some time and I find it a valuable paper. My brother and I made a tractor of our 1-horse power international engine. We made it of parts of a hay easily be used as a power washer by placing the washer by the side of a belt used to run the pump jack or other machines and let the belt drive the washer by friction. As the wheel runs on the belt, when the lid is raised the washer stops but the belt goes on. If it is not convenient to use a belt used to run some other machine, take two rollers, old binder rollers will do, or pulleys, and fasten them to opposite sides of the washer or on a frame so that the top of the rollers will be about one and one-half inches higher than the bottom of the wheel on the washer and use a three inch belt between rollers for your friction drive. It will be necessary to use a double pulley on one side so as to have a pulley to belt to the engine. If your engine is hard to start and the carbu You can't short circuit J-MCE SOOT-PROOF SPARK PLUGS These plugs are absolutely sootproof. Prove it yourself by holding one in the flame of a candle or lamp until the end is covered with soot. THEN place it in your engine, turn on the power, and it will positively clean itself! The secret is in the porcelain insulator or "petticoat," which extends to the end of the plug. This porcelain becomes so hot at the tip that carbon is burned up the instant it settles. No soot-hence no short-circuit. Please mention Gas Review when writing. Please mention Gas Review when writing. 2195 |