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LIGHTING AND SANITARY EQUIPMENT 



ate than the electric plant and requires less attention. Most 

 farmers like the outdoor type of plant best, because it is safe, 

 easily charged, easily cleaned out, and where a 100-pound 

 capacity plant is secured, it does not require re-charging 

 oftener than three or four times during the year. Any acety- 

 lene plant that is constructed or located so that the gas will 

 escape into a closed room is dangerous. Acetylene gas is a 





FlG. 339-a. Gasoline gas generator. 



little more dangerous than gasoline; both must be handled 

 with great care. 



313. Gasoline Gas Lights. Most of the gasoline equip- 

 ments are either of the small portable-lamp type or the one by 

 which the gas is piped thru small tubes to the individual lamp. 

 These types of gasoline lamps are objectionable from an in- 

 surance standpoint. Only where the gas is produced outside 

 of the building (Fig. 339-a) and piped in like ordinary city gas, 

 is the gasoline system really safe. The greatest danger of 

 gasoline lights comes from taking gasoline inside the house. 



From a standpoint of economy, the gasoline gas lamps are 

 really cheaper than either acetylene or electric lamps. 



