[Fruit culture] . is protectedfrom wind and has fairair drainage, fifty or sixtyheaters to the acre may be sufficient. Experience indicates,however, that there should be in any orchard at least oneheater for each tree and that an average of one hundred heatersto the acre is desirable. Also, theorchardist should have a torch for light-ing the oil in the heaters and a smallgasoline can, such as the one shown inFig. 7, from which a small quantity ofgasoline may be placed on the oil in theheater to facilitate lighting. To be prepared to combat frost suc-cessfully by means of oil heaters theorchard
[Fruit culture] . is protectedfrom wind and has fairair drainage, fifty or sixtyheaters to the acre may be sufficient. Experience indicates,however, that there should be in any orchard at least oneheater for each tree and that an average of one hundred heatersto the acre is desirable. Also, theorchardist should have a torch for light-ing the oil in the heaters and a smallgasoline can, such as the one shown inFig. 7, from which a small quantity ofgasoline may be placed on the oil in theheater to facilitate lighting. To be prepared to combat frost suc-cessfully by means of oil heaters theorchardist must provide for the storageof a sufficient quantity of oil for heatingthe orchard at least three times. Theoil should be on hand before it is neededfor the fighting of frosts. Assumingthat 1^ gallons of oil is burned in eachheater and that one hundred heaters are used per acre, it wouldrequire, therefore, 150 gallons of oil to the acre for each heat-ing of the orchard. Thus, for a 10-acre orchard it would be. Fig. 7 ilil
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