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PAINT FOR HOT WATER PIPES. 



Please tell me how to prepare paint 

 for hot water pipes in greenhouses? 



E. C. 



While black asphaltum paint is ex- 

 cellent for greenhouse pipes, so far as 

 preventing their rusting is concerned, 

 it gives a smooth, glossy surface which 

 is less favorable for the radiation of 

 heat than a dull, rough surface. Such 

 a surface can be secured by using a 

 paint containing equal parts of linseed 

 oil and turpentine, with enough lamp- 

 black to give the right consistency. 



PlPmO FOR COMPOSITE SYSTEM. 



I should like to get a little advice 

 in regard to piping my two houses, 

 one 24x125 and the other 28x125. Both 

 are six feet to the eaves. The 24-foot 

 house is twelve feet to the ridge and 

 the 28-foot house is thirteen feet nine 

 inches to the ridge. The houses run 

 east and west. In the south side of 

 the smaller house there are three feet 

 of glass; the rest of the wall is double 

 boarded, with paper between. All the 

 walls are of double boards to the height 

 of three feet, except the north wall, 

 which has four feet of double boards; 

 the rest is glass. 



What I should like to know is how 

 to pipe the houses so that I can run 

 hot water in moderate weather and 

 change to steam when cold weather 

 sets in. The outside temperature rarely 

 gets below zero here, in southern In- 

 diana. I have the houses piped for hot 

 water now and should like to use the 

 pipes I have, if possible. They are 

 2-inch and 214-inch pipes. Will a 

 boiler with the top eighteen inches 

 below the greenhouse floor be low 

 enough for the water to return when 

 steam is used! My object in making 

 this change is to be able to take care 

 of another 28-foot house, which I want 

 to put up and which I could not prop- 

 erly heat in cold weather with hot 

 water. The temperature desired is 50 

 to 55 degrees in zero weather. 



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posite system, which can be used with 

 hot water in mild weather and changed 

 to a steam system in zero weather, I 

 would run in each house two 2% -inch 

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 or two feet below the ridges, and con- 

 nect at the farther end of the houses 

 with two coils of 2-inch pipe, each of 

 which would contain four pipes. This 

 will give two 2Vi-inch flow pipes and 

 eight 2-inch returns in each house. 



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