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The Florists' Review 



October 23, 1919. 



Greenhouse Heating 



COAL MEN WON'T OOMPBOMISE. 



After the miners and operators failed 

 to reach an agreement in joint confer- 

 ences at Buffalo and Philadelphia, Sec- 

 retary of Labor Wilson called them to 

 Washington to meet with government 

 officials, in the hope of reaching some 

 sort of agreement. 



But the sessions last week ended with 

 no progress, and this week holds out no 

 promise of a compromise so far. The 

 operators maintain their determination 

 not to negotiate the matter of a 6-hour 

 day and will not deal with the unions 

 unless the strike set for November 1 is 

 called off. The miners, while express- 

 ing their willingness to meet the opera- 

 tors, hold no hope for a settlement ' ' un- 

 less the operators change their stone- 

 wall attitude." They stand firm in 

 their demands for a sixty per cent in- 

 crease, a 6-hour day and a 5-day week. 

 While some opinion at Washington is 

 that the miners, in the face of the tre- 

 mendous public pressure, will not carry 

 through their strike threat, which would 

 cause at this time of year a dangerous 

 industrial tie-up, many assert that no 

 compromise can be reached, since both 

 sides are determined to stick to the po- 

 sitions they have held since the confer- 

 ences were first opened. Secretary Wil- 

 son is exerting all his influence to avert 

 the calamity which such a strike would 

 bring upon the public in the present fuel 

 situation. 



SIZE OF SMOKESTACK 



Please tell me how large a smokestack 

 it would take to give me satisfactory 

 results. My boiler has twenty-eight 3- 

 inch flues, nine feet long, and my present 

 smokestack is twenty-two feet high and 

 twelve inches across inside. There is 

 not enough draft to carry the soot out 

 and I am compelled to clean the flues 

 every night. G. A. B. — 0. 



The height of the smokestack is more 

 likely to account for the poor draft than 

 its diameter, although both should be 

 increased. Our suggestion is that you 

 use a smokestack sixteen inches in 

 diameter with a height of thirty feet 

 above where the flue enters. Fair re- 

 sults could be obtained with the 12-inch 

 stack if it were made forty feet high, 

 provided a good grade of coal were 

 used. 



BXTBNING OAS AND SLACK. 



I have a 90-horsepower tubular boiler, 



which I fire with natural gas. It is 



equipped with two sets of burners. One 



is a set of grate burners which lie on the 



two sides of the firebox and face each 



other with a space of about forty-three 



inches between them. This space is 



taken up with grate bars. The other 



is a set of Kirkwood burners, which are 



horn-shaped and set in the doors of the 



firebox. I have a breaker of fire bricks 



set on the grates to break up the gas as 



it comes from the burners. The gas I 



burn comes from a near-by well, which 



in cold weather does not give me enough 



gas to keep steam up. I have a small 



2-flue boiler of twenty horsepower which 



is connected with the large one and in 



which I burn slack to help the large 



one at times when the gas is insufficient. 



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No Nore Cast Iron Boilers 



I have used several different 

 makes of boilers but none I like as 

 well as yours. 



The Kroeschell Is easier to Are, 

 takes less coal and water circulates 

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I have used two different makes 

 of sectional boilers — no more cast 

 Iron boilers for ns. 



[Signed] Mr. . Mich. 



Kroeschell Replaces Cast Iron 



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