Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-10-28

mined by the size Of the tank and the
amount Of oil to be stored. Steel
tanks win cost more than cement.
even though the cement was put in
by contract, though most growers can
construct their own cement cisterns
at no cost but the cement. In either
event the tankage should be under
ground as the temperature of the
ground viii always keep the oil bet
ter than temperature Of the air.
should a tank be put in the side hill
it would still be best to place high
board construction around it and fiji
it in with earth. With the tankage
under ground it is possible at any
time, excepting in the severe cold
weather of the winter, to pump the
oil with a rotary or centrifugal pump.
| use my spray engine belted to a No.
5 Gould centrifugal pump and as oil
Will always be in pumping shape at
the time of the year you will want to
handle it. A common plunger pump
will not handle heavy oil. With tank
age under ground you viii never have
any trouble pumping your oil, but
you will have trouble with your wag-
on tank. If you should use heater
that will possibly have to be reflled
at night if it hasn't the capacity to
burn throughout the necessary time
you viii find that it will so conjeal
in the pipes of the tank that they will
constantly have to be warmed or the
tank wagon will have to be Kept in a
warm building until the moment you
will need it in the orchard Should
You use a small heater the tankage
should be distributed about one tank
of 600 to 1000 gallons capacity on
every i've acres This makes less dis
lance to lave TO haul in the dark at
night when silling the wagon tank.
IT overcome ell these difficulties by
using a reservoir heater that burns
all night without reflling I do NOT
even need to nave the wargon tank
filled and my storage is all in on
big cistem on one corner of the or
chard well out of the way and where
it is safe. No heater that burns less
.han @ hours viii give you this re
lief We usually receive our supply
of oil in the late spring when the
weather is warm enough so that the
oil will flow easily from the car tank
into the wagon tank, so we have no
troubles there The first and most
essential thing for your growers to
do is to get busy on their storage and
get their oil in and be sure they have
it, Provide a wagon tank of about
4OO-gallon capacity. Put it on a good
farm truck and have pipe or outlet
OF not less than two inches from the
tank.
ITO this pipe attach valves and
from these valves carry from each.
side of the wagon a piece of a Inch
hose. 25 feet long. On the end of
this hose arrange a cutoff valve so it
can be turned off or on by quar-
ter turn by the use of a firmly at
tached handle. With this arrange
ment two men can handle the hose
and pass quickly along two rows Of
heaters and fill them very RAPIDLY.
Don't think of any other way now in
use. as it is too long and the work
too hard Next to the heater this is
about all you will have to figure on.
Kind of Heater.
''When you come to the heater, by
all means do not select anything un-
less it has the capacity of burning at
least 10 hours with one filling and
just as important heater that you
can regulate This is so important
that you will do well to look into it
carefully. This kind of a heater will
burn less oil than any other as you
burn oil only in proportion to the
amount of fire you use, and further,
it will provide a reserve possibility
that gives all the protection nee as-
sary.
"If there are any other points YOU
wish to know about, will be pleased
to give you my experiences of two
years success in fighting spring
frosts
"In a day or two will write you
further about discounts on my heat
er and assure you can make II at
tractive for you to take it on in be-
half of your association"
The National Orchard Heater com
pany of Grand Junction, Colo. advo-
Gates steel tanks as Follows:
For storing crude oil, we recon-.
mend the use Of galvanized sheet
steel tanks, setting the same in the
ground. leaving Is to IS inches
above the ground In orchards of