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XEAV ENGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 



NICHOLS AND INGALL'S PATENT STEAM "WARMING APPARATUS. 



Within the extended circle of 

 our readers there is a large class 

 of persons living in cities, or 

 populous towns, who are not 

 farmers, and who use coal, prin- 

 cipally, as fuel. This class, pro- 

 bably, numbers some thousands. 

 They are among our prompt 

 and steady supporters, and we 

 feel inclined to say and do some- 

 thing occasionally for their es- 

 pecial benefit. In noticing the 

 Steam Heater, however, we are 

 far from believing that it may 

 not yet be introduced into a 

 large number of farm-houses, 

 heated with wood as fuel, and 

 keep the entire house warm with 

 a less expense than is now in- 

 curred. We had it in use all 

 last winter and spring until 

 warm weather, and enjoyed the 

 luxury of a tropical climate, if 

 we desired it, or kept the house 

 at any temperature v/e pleased. 

 For warming three rooms, each 

 fifteen feet square, and a little 

 more than nine feet high, three 

 rooms of the same size and 

 eight feet high, and two halls, 

 each thirty feet long, we used 

 o-i tons coal, at a cost of about 

 $40, — and we think this more 

 -f^ than would have been required, 

 \^ had we thoroughly understood 

 how to manage it from the first. 

 During the extreme cold of the 

 eleventh of January, when the 

 thermometer fell to 22" below 

 ing which the tree receives from the winds in z^'""- "^ more coal was used than usual, but the 

 its exposed situation. Apple trees which stand rooms on the north side of the house were shut 

 alone or in exposed situations will possess the up, so that the halls and chambers in use could 

 same characteristics ; and I believe the fact is ^^^-^^ ^^ ^ ^ ^p ^^ qqo ^j. g^o^ ^nd the sitting- 



now ffenerallv conceded, that orchards planted in u- u .u <■ ™-i , ^„„.,,.w,,i *„ tqo „,ut, ,^„, 



'^. 1 » .1 • J 1 11 room which the lamily occupied to /j", witnper- 



situfitions exposed to the winds are longer lived ^ ^ '^ 



and better bearing orchards than those which are '^^^ ease. 



located in sheltered situations. At least, I think i R is simple in its construction, and in no way 



this is the case in high northern latitudes. j j^^^^ jj^j^jg ^^ ^^^ ^m ^f ^j-der than a common 



Sandy River, j^^^^^g^ j^ j^ self-feeding, both as respects a sup- 



_, , . , <. 1 , • • 1. nlv of coal and water, and controls the air-draft 



1^^ Truth IS the most powerful thing in the ^- , , ^ , mi • . • i 



world, since even fiction itself must be governed Promptly and perfectly. There is not a single 

 oy it, and can only please by its resemblance, pulley, float valve, chain or pump connected 

 The appearance of reality is neces-ary to make with it, and there are no tubes, flues or valves in 

 any passion agreeably represented, and to be ^j^g ij^jigy ^q ijggoQie obstructed or get out of or- 

 able to move others, we must be moved ourselves, , 



or at least seem to be so, upon some probable l ' . , i , .. 



grounds. ^^^ apparatus is as portable as a house stove, 



