A NEW STYLE OF HOT-BED.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 277, 30 June 1888, Page 6

A NEW STYLE OF HOT-BED.

The following excellent method of making ahofc-bedisbyaoorrespondent of the Ameri. can Fhrist, who saw it in use in a Milwaukee amateur's garden. The bod is situated about 30 feet north of the house, and is 40 feet long by four in width ; the basement ot his house is heated by a coal stove. For this stove he has made a small coil of gas pipe, which he can put in or take out as easily as he could a tea-kettle. From this coil he ran two one-inch pipes under the ground, well covered, to the hot bed, and then branched each pipe into two, running them the wholo length of the bed, and connected them at the upper end, where he placed an evpauMon tank, consisting of a common wooden pail. It it simply a peifect hot water system on a small confuting of twollows and two return pipes, all one inch. These pipes are all sunk one foot deep. In the iall the sashes were put on, and then it was left to freeze, the pipes of course being empty. On the first of March ho made connections, and .started firing, and though the frotft was four feet deep, in four clays the bod was all ready for the seed. The result was that Mr dl.d 1 . had a crop ot early vegetables that could no& easily be beaten.