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<THFO RURAL, NKW-YORKliR 
October 22, 
STEAM HEATING IN COUNTRY HOUSES. 
The advantages of house heating with 
hot water have been displayed in a very 
attractive manner. Some of us country 
people, however, think that heating by 
steam is in some respects preferable to 
the hot-water method. In the first place 
the cost of installing the steam-heating 
plant is usually 25 or 30 per cent less 
than that of the hot water; the radiators 
are much smaller, there are fewer pipes 
and the bill for labor is smaller. When 
means are limited and the items of cash 
outlay must be carefully considered the 
saving of 30 per cent or thereabouts in 
the first cost may determine which sys¬ 
tem of heating is to be chosen. In the 
second place, one can get up heat much 
quicker with steam than with hot water, 
and this is a decided advantage in sec¬ 
tions of country where sudden changes 
of temperature take place and intense 
cold is common. In the steam system 
all the water is in the boiler and the pipes 
and radiators contain air or vapor. With 
the modern sectional boilers a brisk fire 
quickly raises this water to the boiling 
point. In the hot water system, on the 
other hand, the whole apparatus (boiler, 
pipes and radiators) are filled with 
water, and it takes much longer to heat 
this amount of water to a proper degree 
of temperature in very cold weather. 
Time is of some importance when a sud¬ 
den drop to zero or below takes place 
over night, and one is in a hurry to get 
the house warmed up in the early morn¬ 
ing. The third and most important ad¬ 
vantage of steam heating over hot water 
is its security from serious damage by 
leaking. If by chance a steam radiator 
is cracked a little steam escapes and 
that is all, but a crack in a hot water 
radiator lets off a stream of water that 
may be big enough to do a lot of dam¬ 
age. A steam radiator never cracks 
from freezing, but, now and then, one 
hears of an open window, a sudden fall 
in temperature, a cracked hot-water 
radiator, and a deluge when the thaw 
comes. Besides, the hot water system 
sometimes gives rise to serious incon¬ 
venience from much slighter mishaps 
than the breaking of a radiator by freez¬ 
ing. Being dependent upon the constant 
circulation of the heated water through¬ 
out the whole apparatus, a trifling crack, 
or a leak that follows a rusted joint, 
may cause a great deal of trouble before 
it can be remedied. You cannot cut out 
completely a defective hot-water radia¬ 
tor from the rest of the system, by sim¬ 
ply turning down the valve, as you can 
do with a steam radiator. When the 
valve of the hot water radiator is closed 
down as far as it will go there still re¬ 
mains an opening through which' a slight 
current of water continues to flow. So, 
when there is a dripping from any cause 
it is not to be controlled by turning off 
the radiator; there is need for a trained 
mechanic and his tools. 
There is no doubt that hot-water heat¬ 
ing possesses certain advantages over 
steam, which make it more popular for 
general use. Chief of these is the ease 
with which the temperature may be regu¬ 
lated in mild weather. But the good 
points are not all on one side. Those of 
us who live in the colder sections of the 
country are more interested in the way 
our heating apparatus works in mid- 
Winter than in the early days of Spring; 
we want a system that acts quickly and 
can be pushed if there is need. Those 
of us who have little mechanical skill 
and live in isolated places where it is 
difficult to secure the services of a good 
mechanic are inclined to put security 
from accident above all other considera¬ 
tions. Steam heating seems to us to be a 
safer and more satisfactory method than 
hot water for warming the farmhouse. 
Pennsylvania. w. r. f. 
Guest: “Look here, how long am I 
going to have to wait for that half por¬ 
tion of duck I ordered ?”'Waiter: “Till 
somebody orders the other half. We 
can’t go out and kill half a duck.”—To¬ 
ledo Blade. 
Thinning Honey. 
J. G., Malvern, Pa .—I am a city man on 
a farm. I have 50 pounds of comb honey. 
Can I thin it with water to use on wheat 
cakes as we use maple syrup? Will it 
keep so thinned and canned? If not, what 
can I do with it? There is no market 
here for honey. 
Ans. —It is not good policy to thin 
honey in any way; in fact, most con¬ 
sumers of honey like it as thick as they 
can get it. The addition of water thins 
the honey, but it is very likely to sour if 
this is done, unless it were heated very 
hot and canned, and this would give the 
honey a burnt taste, for ordinarily honey 
that is heated beyond say 175 degrees is 
likely to be-injured in flavor. If you 
do not like the wax you can without 
much difficulty cut the honey out of the 
sections, letting it fall into a large 
cheesecloth and then with some kind of a 
press, such as a lard press, for instance, 
apply pressure enough to squeeze out the 
honey. a. i. root. 
CANADA FRUIT EXHIBITED.—U. S. 
Consul Webster, of Niagara Falls, Out., 
tells how the Canadian Government is get¬ 
ting ready to exhibit fine fruit at the great 
European expositions: “Trips are being 
made through the fruit farms between 
Grimsby and Queenstown, and when a 
choice brand of fruit is found it is pur¬ 
chased and taken to headquarters for pres¬ 
ervation. The fruit is placed in large jars 
and the different solutions are applied. The 
fruit is left in the first solution three 
weeks and when cured is placed in the sec¬ 
ond solution, where it remains permanently. 
The second solution gives it a fine appear¬ 
ance. The bottles in which the peaches, 
pears, plums and other fruit are placed 
range in length from 1 to 3 feet, and the 
glass in the large bottles is three-fourths 
of an inch thick. The corks for the large 
bottles were about four inches in diameter 
and cost $1 each. When the fruit has been 
cured and the process finished, the large 
bottles are sealed with wax and placed in 
specially made boxes. The officials have 
already collected gooseberries, red currants, 
plums, pears, peaches, grapes and celery. 
The exhibit will soon he completed and will 
be sent to the Brussels Exposition for the 
rest of the year. Next year tin 1 fruit will 
be shown at the Ixtndon Exposition. The 
fruit growers throughout the district appre¬ 
ciate the efforts made by the Government 
in their behalf and consider this the great¬ 
est advertisement Niagara district has ever 
secured.” 
75 
Buys a 
Block 
Rope Tackle 
That Locks 
One that locks from any angle and stays locked, 
CENTS One man can lift GOO pounds easily by use of this 
Burr Automatic 
Safety Tackle Block 
There are a hundred nses for it around the farm. 
It is a great labor and time paver in changing 
wagon boxes and auto bodies. It saves its price in 
an hour when you have wire fenceR to build or 
repair. It is strong yet easily manipulated. 
We have other Burr rone blocks which sell up 
$4.25, with a capacity of fi,ooo pounds. 
Ask your dealer to show you a Burr 
Automatic Safety Tackle Block,or write 
U8 direct ami we will send you lull in¬ 
formation in regard to prices, sizes am! 
capacity. (11) 
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136 Viaduct CLEVELAND, O. 
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with 
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It is guaranteed proof 
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HILDRETH MFG. CO. 
32 Willow St., 
Lansing, Mich. 
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T HAT certainly proves 
that the heat really is 
carried entirely across 
the top of the stove. It is 
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Established 1802 
RED CROSS 
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Y our orchard 
WILL BEAR 
MORE FRUIT AND 
BETTER FRUIT if a 
cartridge of Red Cross 
Dynamite is exploded 
three feet below the 
surface, midway be¬ 
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spring. 
This opens up the 
lower soil so it will hold 
moisture, loosens the 
ground so the roots can 
spread and kills all 
beetles and grubs for 
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