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Fig. 432.— Heaters, etc. 



The house (Fig. 433) is 7x10; posts 7 feet high . 

 drawers No. i — 3 feet wide, 8 feet 4 inches long — eight 

 drawers on a side. They are made of inch and a half pine 

 for the end and back — the front is i x 4 inches. The 

 bottom of the drawers are covered with common sheeting 

 tacked on well with nails — 2, 2, 2, are shelves, made 

 tight, and 7 inches apart, and to come within ten inches 

 of the sides of the house. 3, 3, are the furnaces ; they 

 are made of sheet iron, half round, and laid on brick 

 arches, and are the whole length of the house; the 

 chimney is on the outside. The sheet iron should be 

 made of No. 4 — with a flange, so that one course of 

 brick can be laid on the flange, to make it smoke tight. 



The drawers should be made all alike, so that if you wish to change them 

 from top to bottom, they will fit anywhere, and they should be made to fit tight? 

 so that when they are all in they will make the sides of the house tight. The 

 shelves 2, 2, 2, etc., are to distribute the heat to all the drawers ; the heat will 

 strike the first shelf, and pass to the side of the house, and thence under the 

 first drawer to the centre, and then over the drawer, and then the other, etc., 

 till it gets to the top. The drawers, as you will see by the drawing, is put in 

 from the outside of the house and in the centre of the space between the shelves ; 

 5 is a drawer 6 inches deep, 5 feet wide, and 6 feet long, to be used as required 

 — good to use to finish fruit when in a hurry. 



6 is a ventilator, the space in the roof 8 inches wide. No. 7 is a box, open 

 at each end, to let in cold air — placed between the furnaces, so that the air will 

 be heated in passing over them. The temperature of the house should be kept 

 a little below the scalding point ; if it should get too hot the lower drawers can 

 be pulled out about six inches, and that will let in a draft of cold air, and soon 

 bring down the heat to the desired point. Small pulpy fruit should not be more 



than three-fourths of an inch thick, for if 

 thicker, the air will not pass through the fruit ; 

 and it will not dry so quickly. 



After the fruit has become partially dried, 

 put three or four drawers together and finish 

 up. The advantages of the house are : ist. 

 You dry quickly and save time. 2nd. Vou 

 keep off flies and moths, and you don't get any 

 moths' eggs. 3rd. Your fruit is of better color 

 and flavor, for you dry so (juick that the fruit 

 does not become sour. The cleats that the 

 drawers slide on should extend outside of the 

 house two or three feet, so that they can be 

 filled if necessary without taking down. Put a 

 piece of sheet iron over each furnace, say 6 



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