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water preparatory to making a batch of concentrate, and the other for 
cooking the solution. The water tank is located at the rear of the 
cooking tank with its bottom higher than the elevation of the mixture 
in the “cooking tank. This allows better control of the hot water 
supply. Direc tly under the cooking tank is a brick furnace fitted 
with a grate having an ash pit below. The flue from the combustion 
chamber to the smoke pipe is carried under and in contact with the 
bottom of the water heating tank so that while one batch is cooking, 
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Fig. 5.—Hillside furnace type of lime-sulphur cooking plant. 
the water for the next mix is being heated. A sulphur paste mixer 
consisting of a barrel mounted on ‘bearings is supported on a frame 
above the platform. The barrel can be “filled through an opening 
in its side and revolved either by hand or motor power so as thor- 
oughly to mix the sulphur paste. If the barrel is in a fixed position 
a portable trough is used to lead the paste from the barrel into the 
cooking tank. The cooking vat is fitted with a revolving agitator 
described on page 40 which is mounted on a steel shaft extending 
through the tank and wall and fitted with a pulley. The agitator 
is revolved by means of a belt and gasoline engine. Two outlets are 
provided in the front end of the cooking tank, one located so that 
