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EMERGENCY PIPE CLAMPS 



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To repair splita 

 and rust holes 

 on pipe. Made 

 of malleable 

 iron, and guar- 

 anteed to stop 

 the leaks. 



Send for cat- 

 alogue of 

 Pipe Repairs and Steam Specialties 



JAMES McCREA & CO. 



Manufacturers 



61 -63 W. Washington St., CHICAGO 



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fireenhoiise Heating. 



THE INFORMATION IS FREE. 



I should like to have some questions 

 answered in regard to my boiler and the 

 piping of a house, 20x100. Will you 

 please tell me how much it costs per 

 question! Also state all other require- 

 ments. I am a paid-up subscriber to the 

 Ekview. O. E. K. 



Please state the questions you wish 

 answered as clearly as possible, giving 

 all the dimensions of the houses to be 

 piped, as well as the style and size of 

 boiler, if questions involving heat are to 

 be answered. We will endeavor to be of 

 assistance to you without further ex- 

 pense. • L. C. C. 



STEAM FOR CARNATION HOUSE 



Please tell me how many feet of 1^- 

 inch pipe it will take to heat one green- 

 house with steam, for carnations. The 

 house is 29x300, seven feet high to the 

 gutter and fifteen feet to the ridge, with 

 glass on both sides. The temperature in 

 this part of Ontario sometimes gets as 

 low as 15 or 20 degrees below zero. 



C. S. 



To heat your house, 29x300, if the boiler 

 room is at one end, would require either 

 one 4-inch main under the ridge or two 

 3-inch mains along the purlins, and 

 twenty 1%-inch returns. If the returns 

 can be fed from both ends and the re- 

 turns emptied into a common return 

 through the middle of the house, a 3-inch 

 flow running in each direction from the 

 center to the ends of the house will 

 answer. This plan would reduce the 

 length of the flows, as well as the re- 

 turns, to 150 feet, which I think bet- 

 ter than 300 feet. L. C. C. 



VATER IN BOILER PIT. 



May I take this opportunity to give 

 my experience in keeping water out of 

 my boiler pit? I saw in the Review 

 some time ago about a person who was 

 troubled about getting his pit deep 

 enough on account of the water not hav- 

 ing drainage. I had the same experi- 

 •nce. 



Mf draia is but three feet deep, and 



'Tis true — we told Meyer and 

 Meyer told you. 



p. W. MEYER, 



Riverside Qrehnhouses, 



Box 1. R. F. D. 1. 



Kalamazoo, Mich., 7-7-08. 



MOBBHEAD Mfo. Co . Detroit, Mich. 



Dear Sirs:— If the Morehead Return Trap cost ten times what yon ask for It, it would 

 be cheap when time, labor and cost of repairs are consid- 

 ered, in comparison with the steam pump I bad installed 

 before Ketting your Trap. I cannot praise it too bi«:hiy and 

 I recommend it to everyone who talks steam. Tours. 



F. W. MEYER. 



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MOREHEAD RETURN STEAM TRAP 



Manufactured by 



MOREHEAD MFG.CO . Grand ^i^'e'r Ave.. Detroit, Micli. 



Write for Florists' Booklet. 



IMICO. 



Hot Water Boileft 



Made by 



ILLINOIS MALLEABLE IRON GO. 

 539 DIveisey Boulnatd, CHICAGO, 



Are noted for coal economy and 

 g^ood results g^enerally. 



SEND FOR CATALOG. 



Montion The Revi«>w when you wHtp 



THE JOHN DAVIS COMPANY 



Halsted, 22d and Union 8ts., CHICAGO 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



Reducing Vaives, Back Pressure Vaives, Steam Traps, Steam Goods 



Tliis Is virtaat one of our customers thinks of our valves t 



m T ,^ ^ «,.. Lincoln, Iij>., January 8. lUOft. 



Thk Job.v Davis Compant, Chicairo, 111. 



Gentleme.v:— You cau strongly and unheBitatlDtrly recommend the 

 "Eclipse" plstun type reducing: valve to floriBts. We have two purchased 

 of you last year. We would not have them out for double their cost and 

 find them as sf^nsitlve as a watch. We will be in Cblcaro soon to take ap 

 the vacuum aystum with you. Vours truly, 



W. H. OuLLKTT &, Sons, Flobists. 



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below that the water would fill the pit 

 in a wet time, so I concluded to put in 

 a cement box to keep the water out. I 

 dug nine feet deep and had to pump 

 to keep the water down, but succeeded 

 in building the box, which is 9x16x25, 

 with walls eleven inches thick at the bot- 

 tom and six inches thick at the top, and 

 a 10-inch floor, all of sand and cement. 

 It has been in use three years and is 

 perfectly dry. The water has been with- 

 in two inches of the top at times, yet 

 it did not leak. 



If anyone would like to get details of 

 the work, I shall be pleased to give them. 



Perrysburg, O. J. H. HUFFORD. 



SUPERFLUOUS FLOW PIPES. 



My greenhouse is 20x50 feet, eleven 

 feet eight inches to the ridge, with con- 

 crete side walls five feet four inches 

 high, including sixteen inches of glass. 

 The house runs from north to south and 

 is fully exposed on all sides. It is 

 located in Missouri. At present I have 

 four 2 V^ -inch flow pipes under the ridge 

 and sixteen 2-inch returns under the 

 benches. 1 want to take two flow pipes 

 off, if you consider it right* If I do so, 

 I shall have to raise the two remaining 



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eToftERS 



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DETROIT. MICH. 



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flows at least eighteen inches, to rua 

 them through the wall and bring them 

 straight down to the boiler. A floor 

 between causes the difference of eighteen 

 inches. This would bring the flow pipes- 

 ten feet above the boiler. At present 

 they are eight feet six inches above. 



With this plan carried out, I will do 

 away with three elbows near the boiler 

 in each flow pipe, which I consider a 

 great obstruction. I have three valves 

 near the boiler, which I shall have to 

 move to the far end of the house. I 

 use them to cut out from one to three 

 coils in mild weather, and they did good 

 service last winter. Please state if you 

 approve of the above plan. C. G. A. 



By all means take out at least two of 

 the flow pipes. One 2%-inch flow is 



