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system of boiler making before we can get any great 

 amount of heat, without using plenty of fuel. 



Economy in this manner of heating is not to be gained 

 in any saving of fuel, but it will be in saving of labor. 



One boiler will now do the work that it formerly re- 

 quired six furnaces of the smoke-flue system to perform. 



By hot-water heating, when the pipes are full of water, 

 and plenty of fire in the furnace, you have all that is 

 needed to do away with the great anxiety which is so 

 often felt of a cold night. 



There is no danger here of flues giving away, and gas 

 escaping, which is so often the case with the smoke flues. 



My experience, which has been so dearly bought, 

 teaches me to never use a smoke flue for a greenhouse. 



A boiler and hot water pipes will cost but a trifle more, 

 in comparison to the ease and comfort you will enjoy 

 during severe weather, and also the advantage to be 

 gained in the health and vigor of your stock grown by 

 this method of heating. 



I will here give the cost for heating a house with boiler 

 and hot water pipes (1879). Dimensions, span roof 

 house, one hundred feet long by thirty feet wide, ten feet 

 in the center, with four rows of pipe on the front and 

 three on the back, making in all seven hundred feet 

 of four inch pipe, with all connections made, twenty 

 cents per foot, or one hundred and forty dollars for pipe. 

 The cost of boiler to heat the same, fifty-five dollars. 

 The cost of boiler, pipes, and everything included, all the 

 work being done in a workmanlike manner, one hundred 

 and ninety-five dollars. 



