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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBBB 4. 1917. 



Greenlioiiise Beating. 



Subscribers are invited to write the 

 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 any details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 ask The Review to make a choice of ap- 

 paratus for you. The greenhouse heating 

 equipment advertised in this paper is, we 

 believe, the best for the trade to buy, 

 and each article the best in the special 

 field of its adaptation. 



THE COAL SUPPLY. 



Government regulation of the price 

 of coal at the mines and the profit that 

 the jobber may charge for his part in 

 getting • fuel from producer to con- 

 sumer, was followed October 1 by an 

 order fixing the profit of the retail coal 

 dealer. The order, issued by Fuel Ad- 

 ministrator Garfield, allows the retail 

 dealer to sell coal to the consumer at a 

 price representing an advance of not 

 more than thirty per cent over the 

 retail gross margin of profit in 1915. 

 In no case, however, can the retailer's 

 gross margin be more than his gross 

 margin in July, 1915. 



It is believed that this ruling will 

 bring the cost of coal down to prices 

 that were charged in the summer of 

 1915, which was before the prices began 

 to go up. Eetailers, however, are al- 

 lowed a small additional charge to make 

 up for the increased cost of doing busi- 

 ness. If he charged $1 per ton over 

 the wholesale price of coal in 1915, now 

 he may charge $1.30 profit, or an in- 

 crease of thirty per cent. 



While the prices fixed by the govern- 

 ment will undoubtedly be maintained 

 during the winter, there seems to be a 

 general belief among dealers that there 

 still will be a shortage, because of ina- 

 bility to move coal from the mines to 

 the consumers. Already freight trafl&c 

 is congested and it is predicted that the 

 congestion will become worse as the sea- 

 son advances. 



Therefore, as The Review has pointed 

 out before, it will be well for the small 

 consumer — the man who buys as hia 

 needs demand — to get in as much fuel 

 as he possibly can. He is now assured 

 that the price will be no higher, but 

 has not the assurance that he can buy 

 coal when he needs it. 



HEATING OF HOUSE 30X100. 



I am ; thinking of erecting another 

 house, as an addition to my present one, 

 which is 30x100 feet and heated by hot 

 water. My boiler grate is 30x37, and 

 the boiler is rated at 3,000 feet for hot 

 water and 1,800 feet for steam. Would 

 the boiler be large enough to heat an- 

 other house of the same size as the pres- 

 ent one, by hot water or steam? If so, 

 would it be best to connect the flows 

 and returns to the present 4-inch pipes, 

 or run them to the new house direct 

 from the boiler? How much pipe and 

 how would you arrange the piping in 

 the new house for a temperature of 50 

 degrees when it is zero weather outside? 

 I use a 31^-inch flow and a 3-inch flow, 

 and twelve 2-inch returns in the present 

 house. 



My house runs east and west, with the 

 boiler room at the west end. I would 

 run the new house west from the west 

 end of the old house, thus having the 

 boiler room between the two houses. 



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The KroescheU Water Tube Steam Boiler 



WHAT THE USERS SAY: 



Kirk wood, Mo., May 22, 1915. 



THIS STEAM BOILER I THINK IS A WONDER, 



a quick steamer, and holds the steam; the easiest boiler 



in the world to clean and to keep clean. The double 



'steam trap system is working fine, keeping all the steam 



lines well drained. ' (signed) W. J. PILCHER. 



New Haven, Ind., Oct. 13, 1916. 



The two No. 46 KROESCHELL WATER TUBE 

 STEAM BOILERS which you furnished for our new 

 plant surely are giving us satisfactory service. 



These boilers are internally fired, and ECONOMICAL 

 fuel burners, being very fast steamers. 



With baffle arrangement such as you have, it con- 

 sumes all the heat cast from the combustion chamber 

 instead of letting it out of stack. 



(Signed) NEW HAVEN FLORAL CO., 



Per H. J. C. Leitz. 



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WHAT THE USERS SAY: 



Dubuque, Iowa, Nov. 28, 1915. 



I wish to report that I have used my No. 45 KROES- 

 CHELL WATER TUBE STEAM BOILER for the past 

 two seasons, and will say I could not compare it with my 

 former boiler, as it is so far superior in every way that 

 there is no comparison whatever. 



It does the work of two tubular steam boilers— saves 

 fuel, needs less attention, as the fire lasts much longer 

 — is easily cleaned, there being no flues to clean every 

 night, as was the case with the old boilers. 



If I should need another boiler, I would not think of 

 buying any other kind. (Signed) S. E. MUNTZ. 



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KROESCHELL BROS. CO., 



444 W. Erl« Str««t, 

 CHICAGO, ILL. 



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