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pelling the orchardists to protect their crops 

 against frost and forced each man to give his 

 services in case of danger. This law was worked 

 out on very much the same system that frost 

 fighting in the Grand Valley is today. Through- 

 out this long career of frost fighting, there is not 

 a single record showing the use of large fires, 

 wliich substantiates the theory that there is no 

 need for great heat locally, but there is need of 

 numerous small fires well distributed. 



These old records would have little value, how- 

 ever, if it was liot for their substantiating the 

 theory that modern science has followed. Every 

 scientific principle of ancient or modern origin 

 supports the theory that to get the best results 

 from a certain amount of heat, the same must be 

 thoroughly distributed. 



The government in all of its reports on smudg- 

 ing or orchard heating makes a strong point of 

 small fires and warns the growers aganist the use 

 of large fires (see Farmers' Bulletin No. 104 and 

 Year Book, Department of Agriculture, 1909, page 

 360). Furthermore, the majority of practical 

 orchardists who have tested the various methods 

 for themselves will agree with me that the best 

 results were obtained with small fires. 



Large fires have the same effect that old-fash- 

 ioned hearth fires have — your face is scorched 

 while your back freezes. 



When furnaces were most generally used in 

 large houses or buildings almost invariably two 

 furnaces would be used, as it was found that two 

 furnaces of smaller type would give more heat 

 from a ton of coal than one large furnace. 



Steam heating follows the same principle; 

 numerous small coils are scattered around or 

 throughout the building, church or auditorium, as 

 such coils heat the building much more evenly 

 than half the number of coils would, double the 

 size. 



When it comes to out-of-door heating this prin- 

 ciple becomes all the more important, as the air 

 drafts are stronger. 



Heat rises, and when the fires in an orchard are 

 placed too far apart there is no time for the 

 heat waves to meet under the blossoming trees 



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