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Paob Six BADIN BULLETIN ;*w«wi>W6aiXt 4.}? «Jr« f THE BOY SCOUT SHACK, AND PART OF TROOP NO. 2 tilizer in the furrows under the beds. One gets more rounded potatoes in shal low ridges than in high, as in high ridges the potato is apt to grow long and slim. Sow seeds of tomatoes for a crop to follow the early ones, which are apt to fail by July, and by the last of the month Still sow more seeds for the latest plants to ripen in September and October. I Consider the last planting very essential, for if you have a lot of nice green toma toes when frost comes, they can be trapped in paper and stored in a cool place, and you can ripen a few at a time as you need them. 1 noticed last year a bacterial wilt in Some of the gardens. This. wilt mani fests itself by a sudden collapse of the plant when full of green fruit. I have ^een unable to find any remedy for this ^ilt, and all that can be done is to plant On uninfected soil. That is, do not plant two years in the same ground. Don’t neglect spraying your Irish po tatoes and ke.ep a dust mulch on all growing crops. —G. S. Arthur The Weed here's to the weed! ^Ully for him, his forebears and his seed! ^ sing his own innateness qualities of greatness. , Choose any little spot all your garden plot, Dig it and pulverize and plant the seed Of any flower you please. Up comes the weed. Sit down beside it with your hoe , And watch it grow. Chop off its toji, dig up its seed. Tomorrow you,behold—the weed. It is the first thing Above ground in the spring. It is the last to go Before the winter snow. Spurn it and smite it, Burn it and blight it, Vou cannot spite it. ; , Still with humility complete. It casts itself beneath your feet. Chop it and crop it; if you nod, Its head .peeps through the sod. Curse it full seventy times and seven, And still it meekly points its green to ward heaven. So I say, here's to it! For undiscouraged grit. For pure git-up-and-git, For unalloyed, persistent. Consistent and insistent Stick-to-it and hang-by-it, Keep-at-it and re-try it. The weed, unarmed, unloved, unaided, Has all the garden faded! —Edmund Vance Cooke Mr. and Mrs. V. 0. Moore of the Moun tain Club were visitors in, Blacksburg, S. C.. Electric Power (Continued from page 3) plant built on what was then thought to be a lax’ge scale was started at Niagara Falls, N. Y. This was a little over twenty-five years ago. The Niagara Falls Power Company had then built a large power plant on the Niagara River and was about the only power company then in position to furnish electric power in the necessary quantity at a moderate price. As all of the Power Company’s machinery gener ated alternating current it was neces sary to use rotary converters. The Aluminum plant was built about a quar ter of a mile from the power plant and the rotary converter station built in as a part of the aluminum plant with only a wall between the pots and the rotariea "'S The rotaries were the largest evei>*^ built up to that time. They were very large, slow speed machines known as two phase, twenty-five cycle, one hundred and seventy-five volts, one hundred eighty-eight R. P. M. rotaries. There were six of them with the necessary transformers in a small room at one end of the aluminum plant. The rotaries ■'Were supposed to deliver 3500 amperes ■ at one hundred seventy-five volts, or six hundred K. D. each. They were operated in parallel, that is after they could be made to run in parullel. Those rotaries were as high and would weigh as much as a present day machine having five times the output. This plant was in con tinuous operation up until about one year ago, and is at present being dismantled. In later years the machines were cor^ J siderably overloaded and hot joints were* quite troublesome on the primary trans former terminals (2200 volts). The practice was to* fasten a match to the end of a stick and stick the brimstone end of the match on the suspicious joint ov terminal, if the match immediately lighted, the joint or terminal was thought dangerously hot, if not it was , 0. K. In a very short time the demand for Aluminum grew beyond the capacity of this plant and arrangements were made with another Power Company for more power and ground obtained for another aluminum plant. Here direct current generators coupled directly to water wheels were used and the aluminum plant built over the forebay for the power plant. The first direct current generators were rated 5G0 K. W., 250 volts. Soon six more direct current gen erators rated at 750 K. W., 300 volts
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