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THE RECORD MUHLENBERG'S OLDEST AND MOST SUBSTANTIAL NEWSPAPER-IS UN PARALLELED AS AN ADVER TISING MEDIUM. '-WIS' ' : JOB PRINTING lOF QUALITY PROMPTLY DONE. PRICES ! AS REASONABLE AS IS CONSIST 2 ENT WITH GOOD WORK- : MANSHIP. 1? VOL. XX. NO. 4 3 GREENVILLE, KY., THURSDAY; NOVEMBER 28, 1918. 50c. PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE f(Om GOOD WORK OF A ROAD DRAG Implement Should Be Used Properly at Right Time Repair All Ruts and Depressions. After two days of rain, says a writer in Hoard's Dairyman, -we took an eight-mile drive out into the country to buy some pigs. One piece of road was like a city boulevard, only bettor. Despite its being only a gravel road there was little mud or water, and one would have thought that there had been only rain enough to settle the dust instead of the big rainstorm. We inquired and found that two neighbors had made it a practice to alternate in going over this road with a road drag after every rain. Just beyond, we came 'o a piece of road muddy, slippery and full of chuck holes that sent us up a mile for every mile covered. The only difference between these two pieces of road was a road drag and an hour's time spent when field work could not be done. We estimate that it took twice as much gasoline to cover the undragged road. Multiply our experience by the dozens of teams and autos going over this muddy road, and then compute the expense of fail ure tcj use the road drag that was doubtless rotting away in some fence corner. We do not now have in mind the de mands of the good roads extremist, but are considering what may be done and what should be done with the common dirt road. It does more harm than good, as a general rule, to plow up the sod on the sides of the traveled track and pile it up in big lumps in the cen ter of the track, leaving them there to be broken up by passing vehicles, and the loosened dirt washed away by the rain or blown away by the wind. Keep all the sod, grass roots and other 'REPARE HOUSE FOR WINTER Perspective View of Split-Log Drag. trash out of the road bed: It merely decays and makes ready for a splendid hole to form. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. No part of a re paired highway should be left until its surface has been thoroughly and even !y compacted and shaped to let all the water run off. And when, as will most always happen, ruts and depressions make their appearance, they should be smoothed down, filled, and well com pacted so that water may not remain in them to soften the ground and per mit further damage by the trattic. When using the road drag, use it properly at ihe right time. Don't go out when the road is too wet or too dry. Take it when the mud will make a good mortar and will puddle down like the lit i 1 - girl's mud cakes or the mason's mortar. Fovs Withstand Cold Air Much Bet ter Than Impure Ventilation of Much Importance. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) liens can withstand cold air much better than impure air. Don't shut the poultry house up tight at night to keep out the cold unless ventilation is provided. Hens will thrive better and lay more eggs If they have plenty of pure air ; not diaughts. It is as neces sary to fowls as clean water and good food. When hens are confined in badly ventilated houses, as Is sometimes the case in cold weather, they lose vital ity, produce fewer eggs, and often be come sick and stop laying. Good ven tilation is needed also to keep the house dry. In cold weather moisture collects on the walls and roof in a poorly ventilated house, making it very uncomfortable for the poultry to live in. When the temperature rises this moisture trickles down saturating the air and making the litter on the floor wet. N If the house is not overcrowded and is insufficiently ventilated for only a day in cold weather, no great harm is done. In an overcrowded house condi tions become insanitary in a few hours. Even in a house properly stocked con ditions" at the end of one day of im pure air are noticeably bad and, unless promptly corrected, grow steadily worse. Ventilation to provide pure air and dryness in a poultry house is simply a matter of keeping doors and win dows open as much as is necessary to keep the walls dry. Few poultry keep ers have any difficulty in this until the temperature goes low enough to freeze water in the house. Then the tendency s to close doors and windows to keep the house warm. . Tbis is the-righ.t.idea,suV ieri. to th practical limitation that the house must not be closed so tight that tin: supply of fresh air is insuffi -ieut, and the circulation of air is retarded to such an extent that moisture collects on the walls. The proper regulation of ventilation insures pure air and dry ness, and keeps the house as warm as is practicable without the use of arti ficial heat, or special provision to ab sorb an excess of moisture. The ad justment of doors and windows to pro-, vide the conditions required must be learned by observation. The general rule is to open doors and windows as much as is necessary to keep the house dry in cold weather, and to keep them wide open when wa ter in the house will not freeze. Cheap cotton cloth and common bur lap are often used in some of the win dows of a poultry house in place of ass. Cotton cloth is to be preferred for this purpose because it is cleaner and admits more light. When both cloth and glass windows are used the MACADAM ROAD PROVED BEST . ? b. There Are Sjveral Varieties, Changed to Suit Localities and Circum stances Everywhere. For over n century now the macadam road has been in use and has proved itself to be the best alUround road that ran ie built. In fact, so good is it that all Miliary roads in th war area in France are of this type. T2'.v; are Feveral varieties of it, changed to suit localities si:id circumstances. The regu lar water-bound macadam Is, with out doubt, the best and safest for horses. But we cannot build for horses alone, it is jwcossary to prexervi? the broken st'.. road against the ntiio mobUe tiro.-.-, otherwise the road sur face would sroii go to pieces. Inadequate Roads Costly, Doth town and country lose niomsy because of our very inadequate reads. Rape Cood Hog Pasture, llape is a profitable rop fui j.ro vidir.g fall pasture for ti"gs where farmers h;nsi lJ' honi !t Break '.and Before Freezes, It will i:v generally to break tne laiwl before itv-s so Ia weeds and othvr vesu.i.xi may while p'tri. Inexpensive Poultry House With Pf ert ty of Open Space in Front. most common practice in cold weather is to keep the glass windows closed all the time; to open the cloth window wide on clear days and close it as much as seems necessary at night and on stormy days. When the winters are generally mild cotton cloth is? some times used in all windows. t suaiiy a house ran bo run wiin a I tfood deal of ventilation in all but the very coldest weather. Hirds can stand quite low temperatures provided their combs do not get frosted. Where there U much ban freezing weiithcr tfi iust fffeetivo wjiy that s lepu fpuiit to keep a poultry house warm and dry is to place dry straw or hay, to the depth of a foot or more, overhead on H floor of boards laid as wide apart as fuay be and stj hold the straw. Dry straw will usually absorb all I moisture, and so when it is used the jjoujfry keeper must judge by the air in tjie house how much to keep doors fiiini windows open. A breed fhat. wjl not stand the temperature Vhen ven tilation is regulated in this way is nqf suited to the climate. Use for Waste Products. Full use should be made of waste products from the kitchen, the table fljid the foods on the farm range, for fii.'h material is excel lent food for jiff kinds pf poultry and will bplp jtj cut down the expense qf feudiatf. ' Enemy of Young Chicks. Jvice are the worst enemy to the yuuiiK litkP. and hot weather tends fo ipcrease their numbers nnlcsss dras measures are taken to gvef rj,d of thetj. J .V . . '-.-. ' J of 'to! Mile erinni Test? mi 8 M axwell tor ars C 5-Pass. Car ... $ 825 Roadster 825 5-Pass. Car with All Weather Top . . 935 5- Pass. Sedan . . 1275 6- Pass. Town Car 1275 All prices f. o. b. Detroit wheals rr''r eqn'pmnt -t-.h Sedan lad Town Cr Official Figures of the Test Daily Av. Miles Per Mileage Gal. Gasoline Nov. 23 511.9 22.2 " 24 551.4 22.82 " 25 S37.4 21.49 " 26 505.9 22.47 27 516.5 21.70 28 509.6 23.02 29 515.5 26.40 " 30 480.1 22.80 Pec. 1 498.3 23-99 " ' 2 484.6 21.77 3 506.6 20.7J 4 Rain 438.9 19.5J 5 502.7 19.44 6 517.0 22.15 7 505.0 22.35 8 493.3 22.03 9 472.6 21.33 " 10 477.7 23.43 ' 11 49S.2 23.83 12 540.1 23.5S 13 539.3 23.18 14 Rain 465.9 23.85 15 523.1 22.9I 16 539.1 21.99 17 492 $ 22.09 18 512.0 21.73 19 525.9 28.3$ ' 20 527.S 23.44 21 496.8 24.5ft 22 490.8 22.3Q 23 487.1 23.13 1 24 480.5 21.75 . 25 477.5 22.83 " 26 492.6 22.30 27 487.1 19.79 " 28 477-4 18.91 J9 523.9 18 2ft ' 3a 466.9 2fl.24 it 31 504:9, 21.08 Jan. 1 501.4 19.84 f 2 Rain 451.8 20.07 V 3 Rain 479.1 21.56 if 4 Rain 455.6 19.82 5 Rain 562.5 19.10, Elapsed time . . Total mileage '. Average speed per fcaiw Average day's run tLongest day's run, Average miles per gal. Smallest day's mileage per gallon preatest average miles per gallon . . . Average tire life . . 44 days 22,023.3 25 miles' ki 22 miles 18.20 miles 28.33 miles 9.87S miles. Note that longest day's run Vaa made on last day of tte teiti -A ... .; 6REEN-FCRD AUTO CO' Agents Greenville. Kv. "n You know, of course, that the Maxwell Motor Car is the long distance champion of the world. You have read that a "stock" Maxwell 5-passenger car ran for 44 days and nights without stopping the motor. And that, in the 44 days non-stop test, the Maxwell covered 22,022 miles, at an average speed of 25 miles per hour. But have you, up to now, realized the full significance of that performance? Do ycu know that no other motor car in the world has ever equalled or even approached that performance? In a word, did you take this test seriously when you heard of it? Or did you set it down as a "selling stunt" to give the publicity man something to talk about? ' It's worth your while to read and to study the conditions under which that test was made. You know that the American Automobile Association (familiarly known as the ' "A. A. A.") is the official arbiter of every automobile test and contests But perhaps you didn't know that when a maker places his product under A. A. A. supervision he must do absolutely as told and abide by the decisions of the Board. That's why there are so few A. A. A. Official Records! This 22,000-mile Maxwell non-stop test was official from start to finish. Therein lies its value to you. It proves absolutely the quality of the car of the very Maxwell you buy. For verily this was a "stock" Maxwell. Listen: First : the inspectors disassembled the motor to see that no special pistons, valves, bearing-metal or other parts had been used. Every other unit was as critically inspected. Then the car was re-assembled under their own supervision. As we had much at stake and thetest was made in winter (November 23 to January 5) we asked permission to take certain little precautions against acci ; ; dental stoppage. J ;Srids recronable, doesn't it? - '' '; , ', :. . , .''I'lButr they , refused permission, to -do any sucrihm .. -l.L , ' ;:;CviA- -. rui examine. Aiey vcn i. a ruppei cover ovcixiier magRcro'g' wasn't "stock." They refuaed to let us tape tlic ignition wire terminals they are not taped on the Maxwells we sell so of course it wasn't "stock." ' Neither would they let us use a spiral coiled pipe in place of the usual straight one from tank to carburetor to guard against a breakage from the constant, unremitting vibration it isn't "stock." Nor to use a special high priced foreign make of spark plug the run was made on the same spark plugs with which all Maxwells are equipped. So rigid were the rules, we were unable to carry a spare tire on the rear it wasn't "stock." A telegram to headquarters in New York finally brought a special permit to carry a spare tire. "It isn't stockl" "It isn't stock!" That was the laconic reply of those A. A. A. inspectors to every last suggestion that called for anything but the precise condition of the standard, stock model Maxwell that any customer can buy from any one of 3000 dealers anywhere. We are glad now mighty glad that the rules were so strict and so rigidly enforced. Any other car that ever attempts to equal that record must do it under official supervisionand comply with the same terms. And It will have to go some. For Maxwell set the standard when it performed this wonderful feat. Maxwell complied with those rules and made good. Every drop of gasoline and oil and water was measured out and poured in by the inspectors themselves. They would not even let our man pour it in! Every four hours the car had to report at the official station for checking.. And it had to be there on the minute. And every minute there was an inspector beside the driver on the front seat two more men in. th? Fear. One got out only to let anatker in day and night for 44 dsiya and nights ! There was one technical stop. j It Is interesting to know the circumstarACt. Dead of night a driving storm-a etoudfrjtfst suddenly another car appeared in the road ahead. In his effort avoid a collision the Maxwell driver stalled his motor. At !3t the observers thought it stopped and so reported. 'The car did not stop, however, so its, momentum again started the motor (if it had indeed stalled) wheja ths eJKitjclv was let in. The contest koaifp exonerated our driver on grounds that his action was neces sary tQ say-? ftfe, . hat shows, yxjs how rigid were the rules how conscientiously applied by the observer - m WkQ have owned and driven motor cars you who know how small a thing may clog a carburetor or a feed pipe; "short" a spark or stall a motor will realise what a wonderfully well made car this must be to go through that test under those conditions 44 days 22,022 miles without stopping. fry The exact amount of gasoline, of oil, of water used; the tire mileage, tire troubles, tire changes; the distance and the routes are matters of official record, attested Ufldef oath and guaranteed by the A. A. A. ((By the way, the average was nearly 10,000 miles per tire.) Any Maxwell owner or anyone interested may see those records. And here's the most wonderful part though no attempt was or could be made for economy; the Maxwell averaged 22 miles per gallon of gasoline. Some other car iay, some time, equal some one of those performances . But to equal them all in the same test that car must be a Maxwell. 8 14 !3 n K