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My visit to Mr. Dorner was during the severe weather 

 of January, and at that time I suggested to him a trial 

 of temperature between this and a three-fourths span 

 house, on some day when artificial heat could be dis- 

 pensed with. Under date of January 30th he gives me 

 the following result : " On the basis of the temperature 

 being the same in both houses fifteen minutes after 

 steam was shut off', the house having the short span to 

 the south at the end of an hour had gained six de- 

 grees on the other, the test being made by keeping the 

 thermometer in the shade." 



Fig. 17. 



At another place visited by the writer where this 

 method is being used, a portion of the benefit sought 

 was lost through faulty construction, the gutters being 

 so high as to cast a shade of six feet at 3 P. M. This 

 together with the result of observations elsewhere, leads 



