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Greenhouse Heating. 



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 Keview to make a choice of 

 apparatus 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. 



LEAKS AT PIPE JOINTS. 



About two years ago we had our 

 greenhouses piped for hot water, using 

 3-inch flow pipes and 2-inch returns. The 

 plumbers did not do a good job. The 

 pipes leaked at the couplings and unions 

 just a little a year ago, but this year 

 they leaked badly, in some places in a 

 stream. Can the pipes be tightened up, 

 or will they have to be taken apart so 

 as to paint the threads with white lead 

 again? Will some reader of The Eeview 

 give his experience? J. G. 



So far as the leaking joints them- 

 selves are concerned, it is generally pos- 

 sible to tighten them without first tak- 

 ing them all apart and painting the 

 joints, but it wUl be well to paint the 

 exposed threads before they are turned 

 in. Just how much of the pipe will 

 have to be unscrewed in order to tighten 

 the joints will depend upon the location 

 of the leaks. In most cases it will be 

 necessary to have the lower end of each 

 pipe free before attempting to turn up 

 the joints. It may also be necessary to 

 use new gaskets for the unions. In most 

 cases it will be advisable to disconnect, 

 or at least loosen, the unions before 

 turning up the joints in the pipes. 



THE FOEL MABEET. 



The coal market is continuously and 

 monotonously dull — that seems to be 

 the one undisputed fact with reference 

 to the subject; in that all reports agree. 

 As to the reasons for the extraordinary 

 dullness, there is not such perfect una- 

 nimity of opinion, but it is generally 

 agreed that the low ebb of business in 

 general, and especially at the great fac- 

 tories, is chiefly to blame for the lassi- 

 tude in the coal trade. Idle factories 

 need no coal, and idle employees are not 

 likely to spend much money in buying 

 coal for use next winter. Besides, the 

 depression in business, it is said, has al- 

 most stopped the lake traffic in coal; 

 there is little demand for iron ore and 

 hence many of the coal boats are not 

 running, for the boats must carry ore 

 in one direction and coal in the oppo- 

 site direction in order to make the 

 round trip profitable. "The mine oper- 

 ators, ' ' says the Black Diamond, ' ' could 

 produce three to four times as much 

 coal as they are now turning out," as 

 the labor troubles have mostly been set- 

 tled. 



To the foregoing reasons, according 

 to the Black Diamond, must be added 

 the "sharp letting up in the export de- 

 mand for coal. A big part of our ex- 





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Greenhouse Purposes 



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port market is in Central and South 

 America. Central America is much dis- 

 turbed by political conditions. South 

 America seems to be in the throes of 

 a depression even more acute than that 

 witnessed in the United States. 



"Smokeless coal has been extremely 

 dull. The favorable position occupied 

 by smokeless in the minds of discrimi- 

 • nating buyers has caused the producers 

 of lower grade coal to seek those mar- 

 kets trying to sell their coal in substi- 



