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you can do it with at least |3 an acre with this kind of oil 

 with 100 pots per acre. 



A Member: What price do you have to pay for oil? 



Mr. Howard: They quoted oil to me yesterday at $2.65 

 per hundred f. o, b. cars Jackson County, Missouri, and I 

 asked what the freight would be on a car this far, and he 

 said |76 a car in tanks. It don't matter about the size of the 

 tank, from that place to Lincoln it is |76 a tank plus |2.65 

 per hundred for that kind of oil. In answer to a question as 

 to how readily it would ignite, — we used a little excelsior on it 

 and used the blow torch and the fire from that will produce 

 heat enough to start it all right. They claim they are not 

 making anything on the oil ; that everything has been taken 

 from it and they are simply disposing of it this way at just 

 about cost. 



Mr. Williams: There Avas a man in Colorado at Grand 

 Junction, that heated for 6 or 7 nights, and it cost him be- 

 tween 111 and $12 per acre for those 6 nights and that in- 

 cluded wear and tear on his machinery. That is he took the 

 first cost, — what he paid for his tanks and heaters, — and 

 divided that by 10 and included in that his oil that he used 

 and that $10 or |11 included the wear and tear on his 

 machinery too. 



Mr. Mincer: The type I expect to use is larger and has 

 several apertures so you can control the use of the oil, the 

 chances are that you would not need that much. 



Mr. Howard : With that kind of a heater you can regulate 

 the amount of your burning surface. 



Mr. Mincer : The type I refer to are regulated by a cap on 

 top of the heater. If it is very cold you can take the cap clear 

 off and burn the heater the whole size of the top. That is a 

 Troutman heater. 



Mr. Howard : Have you ever used the Hamilton heater? 



Mr. Mincer: No sir. I don't think it makes much differ- 

 ence what kind you use. 



Mr. Yager: What has been your observation of the effect 



