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Show Proper Care of Battery During Winter Weather Because of the heavier load it will get in winter tlie battery must be up to its highest efficiency. Tlie motorist can help it much by seeing that all contacts to batteries are tight and clean. Corrosion should be brushed off with a solution of baking bak-ing soda. It may also be necessary to have the generator adjusted so that a heavier charge will go into the battery. bat-tery. The nights are long and the battery bat-tery is called upon to do more work than is required of it in summer. The charge, however, should not g above 20 on the ammeter dial and would best be maintained at about 15. Never add acid to Hie battery but add pure water to keep the solution well over the tops or the plates. At intervals also tlie battery should be checked up to see that it does not fall below a specific gravity of about 1,200. Although it will still Je useful at this point it will approach the danger dan-ger point when hand cranking may have to be resorted to. Once o: twice during the winter a good charging is a good thing. The old radio charger will do It |