94 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



would like to state that the heating plant is not given the attention it 

 should have, by the florist. He will go and water his plants when they 

 are dry; he will open up his ventilators, and he is always trying some 

 new plants or flowers, and thinking that by that he is attending to his 

 business, and keeping up-to-date. When fall comes he begins to think 

 about the firing, and that as a general rule is the last minute, and he 

 finds there are two or three things to be done, and the first thing you know 

 the cold weather is here, and he goes around and tries to get the cheap- 

 est man he can get to throw his coal in this winter. Nine florists out of 

 ten do that. There are a few of the progressive ones do not do that. 

 I am one of the guilty ones and I have done it to my sorrow. I believe 

 that a cheap man is expensive at any price for a night fireman. 



There are several propositions that Mr. Henderson did not enter into 

 upon his paper, that I would like to have threshed out but as I say, the 

 time is short, and I will let it go. But as I say, there is not a florist that 

 gives the attention that he should to his heating plant, and there is no 

 one that burns as much coal as the florist does. 



Q. What sort of a compound do you use for your boiler? 



A. I have been using the liquid compound, and I think it is better 

 than a dry compound. 



Q. Do you remember the ingredients in that compound? 



A. I do not, it is manufactured in Omaha. 



Q. How often do you use it? 



A. I put it in once a week, and I put in about half a gallon at a time 

 in the boiler, and it does the work, and makes a whole lot of difference 

 in the fire or firing of the boiler, of course you must wash it out. The 

 way you draw the water out of the boiler is some every week, — empty the 

 boiler thoroughly once a month, and draw out a little every once in a 

 while that settles to the bottom. 



Q. In case of a hot water system, is this compound good to use? 



A. I do not know; I do not know anything about a hot water system, 



Mr. Williams: A boiler compound is good for any boiler. 



Q. Where do you drain your boiler, above or below the boiler 

 room? 



A. I generally have the boiler connected with the sewer and return 

 pipes come right from the back end of the boilers and flow into the sewer, 

 at the lowest point of the sewer. You must have your opening on the 

 bottom of the boiler so that you can get that scale off. 



Q. Well, we haven't a sewerage connection. 



A. You don't need a sewerage. You can blow it wherever you want 

 to. It is not necessary to blow it all off, just blow it until the water gets 

 clear and we blow ours out into the yard. Let it blow until the water 

 has gone down about two inches and you will get about all of the settlings 

 out of your boiler. 



A Member: There is a bill going to be presented before the legis- 

 lature this winter for an appropriation of .$100,000 for a new building at the 

 State Fair grounds for horticulture and agriculture, etc., and 1 move that 



