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The following cut represents the " Furnace and Pipe " flue, more extensively 

 used at this time than any other, and is not patented. It is cheap and reliably 

 oasily controlled, safe, and may be relied upon to work well. 



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Cut out two or three logs from the end of the barn as represented bV the brick 

 work. Then first construct the two furnaces with brick or stone, as follows: Let 

 the mouths of the furnaces project fifteen inches outward beyond the wall, and 

 extend the furnaces about five and a half to six feet. The outer wall of the fur- 

 naces should be about fifteen inches distant from the logs or sills of the barn. 

 Build the walls of the furnaces eighteen inches apart and eighteen inches high, 

 running back to fourteen inches high, and let the bottom of the fiues slope upward 

 from four to five inches. The furnaces should -be arched with brick or covered 

 with fire-proof stone, or No. 16 or 18 sheet iron. 



Be careful to see that the furnaces at every point are so constructed as ^pt to 

 come in near contact with the sides or walls of the barn, lateral or vertical, and 

 that the exits of the pipe are protected by brick or stone, as seen in the diagram. 



Insert sheet-iron pipes on cast-iron eyes made for the purpose and placed 

 into the ends of the furnaces, as near the tops thereof as possible. The eyes are 

 not absolutely necessary, but they greatly protect the pipe from burbin'g, and 

 being fixed into the ends of the furnaces, the pipe is more readily adjusted. For 

 a 20 by 20 feet barn use pipe eleven or twelve inches in diameter; for barn 16 by 

 16 feet use ten-inch pipe. Extend the pipe all around, with a gradual elevatioa 

 of one foot rise, and with two feet elevation. Cap the ends of the pipes with an 

 elbow. 



For small barns, the pipes may be brought together midway, by a V-shaped 

 fonnection into one twelve-inch return pipe, through the middle of the barn. 

 This flue operates well, and is very popular with the planters working a small 

 force and using only small barns, which are better for them than large ones, and 

 is the cheapest good flue made. 



Any. tinner can make the pipe, and foundries and hardware stores furnish the 

 eyes. The cost of pipe varies from five and a half to ^x and a half cents per 

 pound, and ten-inch cast eyes cost about two dollars a pair, and twelve-inch eyes 



