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WILKS SELF-FEEDING HOT WAUR BOILER 

 for ECONOMY, DURABnJTY, DEPENDABILITY 



Install a WILKS and forget your troubles! 





NO NIGHT FIREMAN REQtJIRED with the WILKS " 

 SELF-FEEDING BOILERS, as the magazine or coal 

 chamber holds sufficient fuel to keep fire 10 to 12 hours 

 without attention. Best made for a small greenhouse. 



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S. WILKS MANUFACTURING CO. 



3523 Shields Avenue, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



ESTABLISHED 18S7 



TELEPHONE YARDS 866 



Mentloii The Berlew when job write. 



eREENHOUSE BOILERS 



STEAM OR HOT WATER 



256 Sises. Wroaeht Steel or Cast Iron 



TO FILL ANY REQUIREMENT 



FROM FACTORY TO YOU 



Some of my Price* on Hot Water Heatingr Boilers: 

 Boiler to Heat 1,000 Feet of aiass, 60°, $ 37.S0 

 Boiler to Heat 1,300 Feet of Glam tiV>, 48.00 

 Boiler to Heat 2.000 Feet of Glass, OO^, 6I.S0 

 Boiler to Heat 2,000 Feet of Glass, 60», 7S.50 

 Boiler to Heat 3,00O>Feet of Glass. OO^, 90.00 

 Boiler to Heat 3,600 Feet of Glass, 60", 96.00 

 Boiler to Ileat 4,600 Feet of Glass, 60°, 126.00 

 Boiler to Heat 6,200 Feet of Glass, 60». 162 00 

 Boiler to Heat 12.420 Feet of Glass, OO". 2TO.00 

 Boiler to Heat 20,000 Feet of Glass, 6V>, 414.00 



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J. F. GORMAN, 250 West 128Ui SL. NEW YORK 



necessary to use either a steam pomp 

 or a trap for returning the water to 

 the boiler. In that case, from five to 

 ten pounds of steam pressure will be 

 required. In many places it is possible 

 to obtain electricity to operate an elec- 

 tric pump for this purpose. 



The sketch shows the houses to be, 

 respectively, 21 x 85 and 36 x 85. A 

 2-inch main flow will be desirable for 

 the wider house and a 1%-inch main 

 flow for the narrow house. As the 

 boiler in question has only one 1%-inch 

 outlet, it will be desirable to tap in a 

 2-inch outlet to supply the larger house. 

 If this cannot be done, it will be possi- 

 ble to make the present outlet answer 

 for both houses by carrying a few 

 pounds of pressure. The flow pipe should 

 be enlarged to 2H-inch at some point 

 near the boiler, and should be reduced 

 to 1%-inch after taking off the flow 

 pipe for the wide house. 



For heating the wide house, use, in 

 addition to a 2-inch overhead flow 

 pipe, ten. 1% -inch returns. Place two 

 of these upon each wall and two of the 

 others in each of the walks between the 

 solid beds. While a 1%-inch return 

 pipe will answer for connecting both 

 houses with the boiler, it will be bet- 

 ter to use a 2-inch pipe. In case the 

 pipes now in the wide house are to be 

 used for the coils, eight l^/^-inch pipes 

 may be substituted for the ten 1^-inch 

 ones. For the 21-foot house we would 

 use either six 1%-inch or five 1%-inch 

 returns, in addition to the 1%-inch over- 

 head main. 



PIPK CUT TO 

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BOnXRS BKADB 



GiBLiN Greenhouse Boilers 



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109 Broad St.. Utica.N.Y. 



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 ABOUT THEM 



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ILLINOIS MALLEABLE IRON CO. 



180I-18S5 DIVXRSXT BOPUVABD COglCAGO 



PABTITIONIKa A GBEENHOUSE. 



Will you give me some advice about 

 a change in the piping of the green- 

 house which is shown on the enclosed 

 sketch f The house, you will notice, 

 runs north and south and the boiler is 

 at the south end. As I have little use 

 for the whole house during the winter, 

 I am planning to run a partition cross- 

 wise through the center and only heat 

 the south half during the winter 

 months. A temperature of 50 degrees 

 would be suitable for my crop. What I 

 am anxious to know is how to arrange 

 the piping so as to have one-half of the 

 house at a temperature of 50 degrees 

 and the other half at 65 to 70 degrees, 

 and be able to drain the half which 

 would not be in use during the winter. 

 How much radiation would this re- 

 quire t The house is fourteen feet high 

 to the ridge and has 7-foot side walls, 

 consisting of two and one-half feet of 

 concrete and four and one-half feet of 

 glass. B. P. — ^Mich. 



The sketch shows the house to be 21 



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 717-23 Virginia Ave., KANSAS CITY, MO. 

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X 118, with the proposed partition at 

 the center. The house is now heated 

 by three 2-inch flow pipes and fourteen 

 IVi-inch returns. The writer does not 

 state whether steam or hot water ia 

 used, but from the amount of radiation 

 used it would appear that hot water is 

 the heating medium. If the heat is to 

 be cut off from the north end of the 

 house during the winter, it will be 

 necessary to have a radiating system 

 for that end of the house entirely dis- 

 tinct from that in the other end and it 

 must be so arranged that it can be 

 drained. 



We would prefer to use 2%-inch flow 

 pipes and 2-inch returns, but the 1^4- 



