. Citrus fruits; an account of the citrus fruit industry, with special reference to California requirements and practices and similar conditions . gate, and men following the wagonfill the heaters by means of five-gallon buckets or ordi-nary oil cans with the tops cut off and provided withhandles. Filling heaters by means of a trailing hose wastried, but has now been abandoned. One group of mengo ahead of the tank wagon and remove the covers fromthe heaters, and others follow and replace the covers. Many kinds of lighting devices have been tried, butthe Adamson lighter shown in Fig. 78 has com
. Citrus fruits; an account of the citrus fruit industry, with special reference to California requirements and practices and similar conditions . gate, and men following the wagonfill the heaters by means of five-gallon buckets or ordi-nary oil cans with the tops cut off and provided withhandles. Filling heaters by means of a trailing hose wastried, but has now been abandoned. One group of mengo ahead of the tank wagon and remove the covers fromthe heaters, and others follow and replace the covers. Many kinds of lighting devices have been tried, butthe Adamson lighter shown in Fig. 78 has come intoalmost universal use. This is merely an oil can in thespout of which a roll of wire gauze and asbestos wicking Frost and Orchard Heating 265 has been loosely fitted. After lighting the wick and in-verting the can over an open heater a few drops of gasolineor high-grade stove distillate will pass through the flameand fall burning into the heater. By use of this deviceheaters may be lighted almost instantly. It is a peculiarfact that new heaters are very difficult to light the firsttime. This difficulty is easily obviated by crowding a. Fig. 92. — Placoinent of orchard heaters. Extra fuel undor trees. loose wad of tow or excelsior into the mouth of the down-draught tube or by hanging a small asbestos wick on theside. This precaution will usually not be necessary aftera little soot has accumulated in the heater. It is the custom to begin firing lemons when the tem-perature at three feet from the ground reaches 30° safe plan is to watch the young leaves on the lowerpart of the trees and begin firing as soon as they showtransparent spots indicating that they are freezing. 266 Citrus Fruits Oranges may be allowed to go several degrees lowerbecause they do not carry blossoms and tender youngfruit in winter as the lemon does. It has been found that it is much easierto hold the tempera-ture at 32° than it isto raise it to 32° againonce it has fallen growers mak
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