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Decembbb 17, 1908. 



KENNETH ANDERSON MF6. Ca 



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COAL THE BEST FUEL. 



Do you know of anyone who is using 

 crude petroleum or gasoline as fuel for 

 steam boilers in his greenhouses? If so, 

 how does the price compare with that of 

 coal? What sort of burner is needed 

 and how much compression? Does such 

 fuel give satisfaction? I am located in 

 Michigan. S. J. P. 



Unless you have cheap natural gas, I 

 know of no fuel as cheap for greenhouse 

 heating as coal. During the year of the 

 coal famine many attempts were made 

 to utilize crude oil and oil products as 

 a substitute for coal, but as soon as coal 

 was available everybody, so far as I 

 know, returned to coal or gas. Through- 

 out Texas crude oil is used as a substi- 

 tute for coal in most locomotives and 

 stationary power plants. The oil, a 

 heavy one, is sprayed into the fire-box 

 with steam under considerable pressure, 

 and thus produces a combustible mixture 

 which maintains a high heat at a mod- 

 erate cost, as the oil is cheap. I do not 

 think, however, that it could be used with 

 low pressure steam or hot water as easily 

 as on high pressure plants and locomo- 

 tives. L. C. C. 



A LEAN-TO VITH A PARTITION. 



We are planning to build a lean-to 

 next spring. W^e intend to put it up 

 against a building which faces south. 

 On the west is a greenhouse fifty feet 

 long, and on the east are two connected 

 houses, jeach fifty feet long. These three 

 houses run north and south and are con- 

 nected with the building against which 

 the lean-to will be built. The range is 

 located in Massachusetts. 



The lean-to will be 20x28, with a par- 

 tition running the length of it, so as to 

 make the north room fifteen feet wide 

 and the other five feet wide. We intend 

 to grow cucumbers in the wider room and 

 violets in the other. We will dig into the 

 ground three feet, thus bringing the 

 benches on a level with the top of the 

 ground. We intend to have the partition 

 of glass, or do you think wood would 

 keep the heat out of the violet room 

 better? How much piping will be re 

 quired, using hot water, to maintain the 

 right temperature in the two rooms, with 

 the outside temperature 10 degrees or 

 more below zero? Would it be better to 

 have the flow overhead and the returns 

 under the benches? 



The boilers are in the basement of 

 the building against which the lean-to 

 will be constructed, and will be not more 

 than eight or ten feet from the lean-to. 



Improved 

 Recording 



THERMOMETER 



Just the Thing for 

 Your Greenhouse 



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Edwtrdsville, 111.. Oct. 28. 1908. 

 The recording thermometer is work- 

 ins: o. k. I would not part with it for 

 twice the cost. Send me $1.00 worth 

 of charts for the same. 



J. F. Ammann. 



No. 800. 



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If we build the lean-to, the house at the 

 west end of it will be used for carna- 

 tions and the house at the east end of 

 it will be used for Easter lilies and mis- 

 cellaneous plants. The house that is 

 farthest east will be used as a cold house, 

 with a temperature of about 40 degrees 

 at night. Thus the plants requiring 

 most heat would be nearest to the boiler. 

 Do you think it would be too warm for 

 violets in such a place? E. Ij. J. 



'I should use a glass partition between 

 the two parts of the house, if it is de- 

 sirable to divide it in this fashion. I 

 am at a loss to know just how well it 

 will work, but see no reason why it 



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should not figure out all right. I should 

 use 2-inch pipe and pipe each room sep- 

 arately, placing two 2-inch pipes fed by 

 a 2 inch flow in the narrow part, and 

 seven 2-inch pipes fed by a 2-inch flow in 

 the wider portion. The pipes in the cu- 



