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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Decbmbeb 14, 1911. 



The Rodgers Steam and Oil Burner 



1 - OVERFLOW 



a- WATER INLET 



3- MIXER 



4 -OIL SUPPLY 



5 -STEAM INLET 



6 -GENERATING PAN 



T -H EAT CONVEYORS 



8-FrRE-BRICK . 



RABER & PIERCE, 



No more getting up at night 



to fire your boilers. Regulate your fire at night, 

 sleep soundly until morning. These burners are 

 successfully heating greenhouses, churches, lodges, 

 banks, hotels, residences ; making steam for laun- 

 dries, creameries, bakeries ; melting metal in news- 

 paper offices, galvanizing works, etc. 



W. L. LEEKA. Florist. ? 



Fairmont. 111., Nov. 23. 1911. ) 

 Messrs. Raber & Pierce, Junction City . Kan. 



Gentlemen: In regard to the burner recently purchased 

 of you— Rodgers' Patent— I know of no better language to 

 express my appreciation than the word "satisfied." To say 

 that it is perfection is not too high. I am uf^ing crude oil, 

 M gravity. I have over 5000 feet of glaFS, and from my test 

 I believe that the colde'tt weather will not require over 30 

 gal. to 24 hours. Sincerely yours, 



[Signed] W. L. Leek a. 



You can only bum oil successfully with steam, 

 and our burner makes its own steam. Send size of 

 fire box and fire door and get prices and literature 

 on heating your plant. 



Junction City, Kansas 



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SNITII,LINEAWEAVER&CO. 



COAL 



AathrMlte. Bltamlaoas, Coke and Gas Coal 



r™Y.'a.W„. Philadelphia 



Greenhouse Heating. 



Snow blockades ■ are to be expected at 

 any time after the turn of the year and 

 it merely is courting trouble to let the 

 coal supply run low at this season. 



OPEEATION OF GATE VALVES. 



I am heating a house with hot water. 

 A 3-inch main leaves the boiler and is 

 divided into two 2-inch flows, which 

 run to the farther end of the house, 

 where they drop and feed fourteen 1%- 

 inch returns, sixty-five feet long. There 

 are gate valves near the boiler, on the 

 3-ineh main and return. These gate 

 valves, when turned down seven turns 

 of the ten which it takes to close them, 

 aflfect the temperature of the house only 

 a fraction of a degree, if at all. How 

 can this be explained! Would you rec- 

 ommend larger flows than I am using! 



A. B. R. 



The statement regarding the condi- 

 tions is not sufficiently clear to warrant 

 a definite answer. Much depends on 

 the location of the pipes; if the re- 

 turns are placed several feet above the 

 top of the boiler, a very small opening 

 would give a good circulation. This 

 would be especially true if overhead 

 flows are used. While a 3-inch main is 

 amply large for the radiation in the 

 houses, it is not advisable to attempt 

 to supply more than 200 square feet of 

 radiation with a 2-inch pipe, and there 

 would be something more than 525 feet 

 to be supplied by the two 2-inch flow 



200^c 







Oar Mies to Florists for 1910 were 200% In- 

 oreHe over 1909 and every customer satiifled. 



RETURN TRAP 



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Cleuoutnif 



Taylor Steam Specialty Co. 



BAHLE CREEK, MICH. 



Write Department F, for new catalogue. 



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WRITE TO 



Geo. B. Limbert & Co. 



557 FuHon %, CHIUGO 



For Prices on 



Genuine 

 Wrought Iron Pipe 



Ask For Cataloarue. 



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pipes in the house in question. If the 

 returns are placed well above the boiler, 

 however, they ought to do the work 

 fairly well. 



The size of the opening through a 



What's This? 



IT'S THE NEW 



PERFECTION 



FLUE GLEANER 



and we want to send it to you for 

 30 days* FREE trial. 



The Perfection will clean welded 

 flues as well as old ones ; remove 

 ■ scale from tubes without cutting 

 metal ; clean hot or cold flues with- 

 out changing temper; can be oper- 

 ated by flexible handle. 



The knives are always sharp. 

 Heads are drop steel forfings. 

 Hundreds low in use by florists. 



Scully Steel & Iron Co. 



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valve need not be as large as would be 

 desirable in the pipe itself, on account 

 of the friction in the latter throughout 

 its entire length, and if a 3-inch gate 

 v^ilve is one-third open the effect on 



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