. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. (Second It's about camping out and what it taught me about a boiler. Si^nmers, when I was a boy, my Uncle Sam used to take "five of us kids" down to Wawayanda Lake for a week's camping. Well do I remem- ber the first time it was my turn to make the fire and boil some water for the coffee. I got a bully fire going and then picked out a good deep kettle and filling it full of water, hung it on the crane hook. Then I sat down on a flat stone and waited for it to boil. And I waited. And after that I waited.
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. (Second It's about camping out and what it taught me about a boiler. Si^nmers, when I was a boy, my Uncle Sam used to take "five of us kids" down to Wawayanda Lake for a week's camping. Well do I remem- ber the first time it was my turn to make the fire and boil some water for the coffee. I got a bully fire going and then picked out a good deep kettle and filling it full of water, hung it on the crane hook. Then I sat down on a flat stone and waited for it to boil. And I waited. And after that I waited. Then Uncle came out of the tent and exclaimed, "Why under heavens does it take you so long to boil a little water!" When he looked at that deep kettle full of water he smiled and said : "Look here, Mac, let me tell you something about boiling water; if you want it to boil quickly, choose' a wide bottomed kettle and then put only a little water in it and in a jiffy it will be ; Many years afterwards I hired with Hitchings & Company, and one day I was unexpectedly sent out to sell a boiler. The Boss kind of coached me up on its points and then I went down to the foundry and looked a boiler over. When I began talking to the customer, about the first thing he asked me was, "What kind of flre surfaces has your boiler?" For the instant I was stumped; then I thought of that camp kettle experience and at once explained to him how our boiler was like that quick boiling kettle, be- cause it had a large flre surface and a shallow amount of water in the water ways, which meant the boiling point would be reached in the quick- est possible time. Not satisfied with that he replied: "But I don't want a kettle, I want a ; Then I pulled this little comb out of my pocket and explained to him how the fire surfaces in Hitchings' boiler were built something like the teeth of the comb, and that the fire came up between the teeth and that each
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