Orchard Heating 
H. B. Stevens, DeLand, Fla. 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 
I have prepared no paper on orchard 
heating, so I do not propose to take very 
much of your time. If you want any¬ 
thing in the minutes on orchard heating, 
you will have to help me out. How many 
in this audience fired any during the past 
winter. I see three hands up. We will 
have a Sunday school class. Will Mr. 
Waite and Mr. Stevens and Mr. Billings 
come down in front? Mr. Billings, you 
are from Hastings, aren’t you? 
Mr. Billings: Yes, sir. 
Mr. Stevens: How many times did 
you fire this winter? 
Mr. Billings : One time. 
Mr. Stevens: What months ? 
Mir. Billings: March. 
Mr. Stevens : What did you use ? 
Mr. Billings : Crude oil. 
Mr. Stevens: What heater? 
Mr. Billings: I don’t know the name. 
It is just a small, square box. 
Mr. Stevens: At what temperature 
did you start your fire? 
Mr. Billings: 31 degrees. 
Mr. Stevens. How low did it get that 
night ? 
Mr. Billings: 28 degrees. 
Mr. Stevens: That was the 22nd of 
March ? 
Mr. Billings: Yes, sir. 
Mr. Stevens : Mr. Waite, what month 
did you fire. 
Mr. Waite: March and April. 
Mr. Stevens : What dates ? 
Mr. Waite. The 22nd and the 1st or 
2nd; something like that. 
Mr. Stevens: What heater did you 
use ? 
Mr. Waite: The National. 
Mr. Stevens. Crude oil? 
Mr. Waite: Yes, sir. 
Mr. Stevens. No other fires but that? 
Mr. Waite: That was all. 
Mr. Stevens. How many fires to the 
acre? 
Mr. Waite. About 100 to the acre; it 
depends on the trees whether they were 
large or small and whether they were 
planted thick or thin. 
Mr. Stevens: How many acres did 
you fire? 
Mr. Waite: About 25 acres. 
Mr. Stevens. Did you have any 
trouble with water in the oil? 
Mr. Waite. Once in a while. 
Mr. Stevens. Did it cause any trouble 
in your stoves ? 
Mr. Waite: It boiled over. 
Mr. Stevens : Did it have any bad ef¬ 
fect on the stove itself? 
Mr. Waite. Not at all. 
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