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The Florists* Review 



March 19. 1914. 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



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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 Eeview 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. 



THE FUEL MARKET. 



The recent moderation in the weather 

 has brought on a slackness in the fuel 

 market in some parts of the country. 

 The possibility of a strike in con- 

 nection with the negotiations for a 

 new wage contract has not been taken 

 80 seriously as in former years, as it 

 is well known that the number of work- 

 ers lying idle is extremely large, and 

 this has had an additional tendency to 

 soften the market. Buying for storage 

 has kept up steadily, although not to 

 the extent looked for by the operators, 

 who-have been expecting an increase in 

 this line to strengthen the market. 



The market in smokeless coal, which 

 is used largely by middle western grow- 

 ers, has been fairly steady at Chicago. 

 The producers have been restricting 

 the production sharply, and this, com- 

 bined with steady buying and a mar- 

 ket clear of demurrage coal, has added 

 strength to the market. The circular 

 price of mine-run is $1.40 at the mines, 

 but this has been shaded. Mine-run 

 coal that is up to demurrage has sold 

 as low as $1.25. The market in anthra- 

 cite in New England and New York has 

 t)een good, as a result of the recent 

 storm in that region. 



HOW BIO IS THE BOILEIl? 



I presented my heating problem to 

 you some time ago, stating that I was 

 unable to get heat enough, and your 

 reply appeared in The Review of Janu- 

 ary 22. I thank you for the favor, but 

 since your suggestions may be inter- 

 preted as meaning that I do not know 

 how to feed a boiler. I am not satisfied 

 to "let it go at that," so I beg leave to 

 trouble you once more. 



I have gone over the piping with a 

 rule, measuring every foot of it, and 

 find that there are 264 feet of radiation 

 in one house and 292 feet in the other, 

 making a total of 556 feet in the two 

 houses. In the cellar there are 54 feet, 

 making in all 610 feet of radiation that 

 the boiler has to carry. Now comes the 

 question: How big is the boiler 1 Be- 

 cause I gave its rating as 1,000 square 



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feet of radiation, you inferred that it 

 contains from four to five square feet 

 of grate surface, but I fail to find that 

 amount. The grate measures 18x23 

 inches, which would be a little less than 

 three square feet, unless there is some 

 peculiar way of measuring the grates. 

 The smoke pipe, too, is only eight inches 

 in diameter, running to a brick chimney 

 which is 8x12 inches and twenty-three 

 feet high. 



I hopethat the rating of 1,000 square 

 feet is correct, but I am beginning to 

 think that the boiler is much overrated. 

 The makers of the boiler advise me to 

 add two sections to it, saying that there 

 should be 1,200 feet or radiation to heat 

 the houses. A prominent greenhouse 

 builder suggests that I, put in a new 

 boiler, one rated for 1,600 feet. Think 



WiirN YOU BUY-Ca A kROESCHHL 

 "THC BOILER Or GENUINf EFfiaENCY" 



Expressions from Hen Who Know 

 Boilers 



Try the Knesckell First— 

 It's Akeid tf Them AIL 



I have bad eight or ten other types of 

 boilers. The Kroeiohell ii the heit I hare 

 ever used. Your boiler beats the waier 

 very quickly — almost as fast as steam. 

 Yours Tery traly, 



H. K. LRVVI8, 

 Dorotny, N. .1. 



Kneschell Boiler Better Thtn Tubolir 

 Beilers er Ctst Irti Beilers. 



Have used upright boiler, tubular boiler 

 ■nd cast Iron boiler. The Kroeschell Boiler 

 heats up better and easier than any other 

 boiler we have ever had anything to do 

 with. If we ever buy another, It will cer- 

 tainly be a Kroeschell. 

 Very truly yours, 



POOLE & PURLLANT, 

 Washington Court House, Ohio. 



No More Cast Iron Boilers. 



I have used several different makes of 

 boilers but none I like as weU as yours. 



The Kroeschell is easier to fire, takes 

 less coal and water circulates quicker than 

 any other boiler. 



I have used two different makes of sec- 

 tional boilers — no more cast iron boilers 

 for us. (Signed) 



FABMINGTON GREENHOUSE CO., 



E. H. Steele, Manager. 



Farmlngton, Mich., June 30, 1013. 



Kroeschell Replaces Three (3) Cast 

 Iron Boilers. 



We purchased of you this spring a No. 6 

 Kroeschell Boiler, which you guaranteed 

 would take the place of three cast iron 

 boilers. Well, the whole thing in a nut- 

 shell is this — your word is as good as gold. 

 Night before last we had a severe storm of 

 snow and sleet and a very high wind; we 

 had not the least bit of trouble. We fired 

 the last at 10 p. m., November 24, and the 

 next morning at 7 o'clock we looked at the 

 houses and found It only 1 degree less 

 than when we fired the last coal, 9 hoars 

 earlier, if this Isn't magnificent work and 

 a good test, we would be pleased to hear 

 from anyone else that could furnish a 

 Ijetter boiler. We know if parties wishing 

 a boiler would get one from you they never 

 would try any other. We think in 6 years* 

 running of this boiler we will have the 



Erice saved In the difference in our coal 

 III. Wishing you the best of success, we 

 remain. 



Very truly yours, 



ADAM LAUB & SON, 

 Hughsonvllle, N. Y. 



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