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before the air currents carry the heat into the 

 upper strata. 



Years of experience have proved that forty 

 square inches of fire area in one place is as large 

 a fire as should ever be used. The forty square 

 inch opening has come to be known as the 

 "Standard" opening. Experience has also shown 

 that for each degree of rise in temperature 400 

 square inches of fire area per acre are necessary 

 on the average. This will vary, of course. High 

 winds will make necessary greater heat, while 

 on very still nights often half of this amount 

 will accomplish the same purpose. 



At this average it will require four thousand 

 inches of fire area per acre to raise the tempera- 

 ture ten degrees. 



With the standard opening for each heater, it 

 will require one hundred heaters to accomplish 

 this result. It will take an opening of eighty 

 square inches of fire area per heater if only 

 fifty heaters are used. This is my reason for 

 condemning large fires. 



Large receptacles are more expensive, and the 

 grower seldom is willing to purchase a large 

 heater if it is going to cost him double as much, 

 and, therefore, he compromises by using only half 

 enough -of the large heaters. We orchard heater 

 manufacturers are to blame for this, however, for 

 we assure our customers that half as many large 

 heaters are just as efificient, in spite of the enor- 

 mous number of scientific facts that prove we are 

 wrong. The growers take our word for it, and 

 they are the ones who suffer. 



My objections to large fires are principally the 

 fact that large fires create a strong draft, which 

 carries the heat far up into the air and causes 

 the cold drafts to rush in from the sides to take 

 its place, and that large fires do not heat evenly. 

 In one place the heat will be great enough to 

 scorch the trees, while half way between the fires 

 Jack Frost will probably be getting in his work. 

 This is always the same unless twice as much 

 heat is being produced as is necessary. 



Large receptacles are nice, and I recommend 

 them for the grower who is willing to use them 

 as a reservoir to save refilling so often. This is 

 the only excuse for the existence of a large 

 heater, and it should be borne in mind that just 

 as soon as a large receptacle is used for the 

 purpose of creating more heat a greater quantity 

 of fuel will be consumed, and the heater will 

 have to be refilled just as often as if it were a 

 small heater. 



So strongly do I feel upon this subject that 

 I would rather see the growers use a common 

 lard pail, which is patented by no one, using 150 

 of them to the acre, than have them use only 50 

 of our No. 3, or some other reservoir heater, for 



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