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May 11, 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



87 



WILKS SELF-FEEDING 

 HOT WATER BOILER 



For ECONOMY 

 DljRABILITY 

 DEPENDABILITY 



Install a 



WILKS 



and forset your troubles 



NO NIGHT FIREMAN REQUIRED with 

 the WILKS SELF-FEEDING BOILERS. 

 AS the magazine or coal obamber holds 

 sufficient fuel to keep fire 10 to 12 hours 

 without attention. Best made for a small 

 greenhouse. 



Sand for eatalogu* aad pricas. 

 TKUBPHONX YARDS 886 



S. Wilks N^ Co. 



3523 Shields Avenue 

 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



M^nttoB Th« R«Ttew when yon write. 



conflicts in any manner with his own 

 experience. It is evident he did not 

 understand me. C. F. B. asked about 

 "fuel oil"; my answer concerned fuel 

 oil only. 



Mr. Kersey says he is burning * ' crude 

 oil." Crude oil may mean anything 

 from a heavy lubricating oil, which 

 could not be burned, to a light oil that 

 would run seventy-five per cent or more 

 kerosene and gasoline. It is undoubt- 

 edly this light crude to which he re- 

 fers. I have two burners in my scrap 

 pile, with either of which he could oper- 

 ate his boiler — provided he has a strong 

 draft — and discard his motor, blower 

 and pump, thereby eliminating three 

 sources of probable trouble. In fact, I 

 had in mind practically the same burner 

 he is using when I mentioned burning 

 distillate, the lowest grade of which is 

 almost as cheap as fuel oil. 



Fuel oil, proper, is the residue of 

 any or all crude oil after all the com- 

 mercial oils have been extracted, and 

 at 40 degrees most of it is about as 

 thick as common axle grease, besides 

 having more or less dirt and fine parti- 

 cles of coke in it. Now, just imagine 

 forcing this stuff through a pinhole at 

 the rate of three quarts per hour! 



His statement as to the quantity of 

 oil he burns is indefinite, but if we 

 suppose he means the standard oil bar- 

 rel of forty-two gallons, then he is heat- 

 ing 6,000 feet of glass in zero weather 

 with less than a gallon of oil per hour, 

 or about the equivalent of twelve 

 pounds of good coal. Perhaps I would 

 understand better if I could see his 

 plant. 



I must admit that my meaning might 

 be obscure in the way I used the term 

 "too hot," but by the time Mr. Kersey 

 ruins two or three boilers with his oil 

 fire he will understand exactly. We 

 know well that few, if any, manufac- 

 ' turers would be willing to admit it, 

 but the fact remains that any inter- 

 nally fired boiler, regardless of make. 



Get Your Banker's Advice 



Giblin tz Heaters 



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UPPOSE every morning during the cold season you entered your green- 

 house, you found a nice, clean, new TWO DOLLAR BILL on the bench, 

 and it was yours to keep, 



HOW WOULD YOU FEEL? 



The cold season would probably have 150 mornings. 



THEN you would have 150 nice TWO DOLLAR BILLS, $300.00. 



DO YOU WANT IT? Listen! 



Manufacturers of other Greenhouse Boilers admit that $3.50 per day per 

 ten thousaud feet of glass heated to 60 degrees in zero weather is a reasonable 

 fuel cost. 



WHAT IS YOUR FUEL COST? 



WE SAY it ought to be $1.75 per day and can prove that fuel for our boilers 

 costs but this amount. 



IF YOU use another boiler and have 11,500 square feet of glass, your cost 

 per day is probably $4.0iJ. Change to our bo ler and your cost per day will 

 probably be $2.0 \ so 150 days gives you the $300.00. Agaia we say: 



DO YOU WANT IT? 



WHY the difference? It's in the CONSTRUCTION and draft travel. 



Besides, you cut out the NIGHT WATCHMAN and save his WAGES. 



DO you want to save $100.00 on the FIRST cost of a boiler or $300.(0 

 EVERY YEAR? 



. Do you doubt these statements? 



Let us tell you the facts, figures, names and places. 



Giblin & Company 



109 Broad St. UTICA, N. Y. 



MAKERS OF GREENHOUSE BOILERS 



