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with a steam dome two feet by one foot 

 six inches. It has fifty 2i/.>-inch tubes, a" 

 round firebox and a grate surface of two 

 feet six inches by four feet. It has been 

 tested to seventy-five pounds of pressure. 

 Do you think it is large enough for the 

 work? 



Could I connect the return pipe from 

 houses 1, 2 and 3 into one of the pipes 

 in No. 4, or would they need a separate 

 pipe to the boiler? " How could I get a 

 pipe to heat the dwelling house? Have 

 I arranged right for my boiler, or should 

 it be at the other end of the houses? Of 

 course, it is more convenient to have it 

 on the back street, but if it would be 

 any decided advantage to have it at the 

 other end I Avould put it there. I think 

 it is likely I will turn the shed into a 

 lean-to. Would I have to sink my boiler 

 any? S. G. T. 



From what you say, I judge the pro- 

 posed site for the boiler house is four 

 feet higher than the opposite end of 

 the houses. If this is the case, it will 

 be greatly to your disadvantage, unless 

 the fall in the other direction is sufli- 

 cient to overbalance this. It would be 

 best to locate the lean-to on the opposite 

 end of the houses, provided it is lower, 

 and set the boiler in a pit so the water 

 line in the boiler will be at least three 

 feet below the grade of the lowest radi- 

 ating pipe in the system. If, for suffi- 

 cient reason, the boiler must be placed 

 on higher ground, sink it lower and carry 

 the return at the opposite end of the 

 houses and carry it back by means of a 

 water-leg running from the far end of 

 the greenhouses to the boiler-roooi, but 

 even with this plan it will be /^rell to 

 have the water-leg two to three/feet be- 

 low the lowest heating pip^ in the 

 houses. Otherwise, you will require a 

 feed pump or a trap, and a hot well. 



Carry a 4-inch riser to the center of 

 house No. 5 ; from there to the middle of 

 bouse No. 3 use 3-.inch, and from there 

 on 2-inch. Use eighteen 1 14 -inch pipes 

 in each of the houses 6 and 7; fourteen 

 1%-inch pipes in houses 4 and 5; six in 

 No. 3; nine in No. 2, and twelve in No. 

 1. If the water-leg does not prove satis- 

 factory, empty all condensation into a 

 hot well in the boiler-room and return 

 the hot water by means of a trap or feed 

 pump. I think your boiler can handle 

 this load, but during severe weather will 

 probably require constant care. 



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