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Show HAS YOUR HEATING PLANTAJXMPER? Vacuum-Cleaning of Entire System Will Remedy Many Trouble. Many heating plants enter their season sea-son of winter work lazy and sluggish after their summer vacation and their part time duties In the fall. Often they reveal an ungracious temper, wasting the precious fuel hat la fed to them and replying to the homf owner's demand for greater beat with clouds of smoke and foot Symptoms like these usually can be diagnosed as due to soot poisoning or congestion of the heater's breathing appnratuCt according to the Hollund Institute of Thermology of Holland, Mich. This ur especially likely to be the case when the patient has an offset off-set In his chimney-flue - where soot lodjjes. Some old-fashioned remedies may be applied to give the sufferer emergency emer-gency relief. Sniull parcels of kitchen refuse may be administered, for their burning produces chemical reaction that removes the soot-In fectloti, A enpful of dry salt poured onto the center of the fuel-bed Is another good antidote for snot-polgonlng. Or scrap sine, which mny be bought from any hardware store, may be sprinkled aver the fuel-bed when the . fire Is burning briskly. Of course, the beater should be given plenty of air through the drafts while these treatments are administered. adminis-tered. Otherwise, the remedy might not work and the patient might choke wltb smoke and spread unpleasant odors through the house. 1 But, while giving the patient this emergency relief, the attending physl clan should resolve to apply a drastic treatment looking to complete cure. The way to do this Is to have the sufferer's suffer-er's whole system cleaned out by the suction cleaner method. The Instra ment that administers this treatment most effectively Is a giant vacuum machine that comes to the house on a truck, equipped wltb a 40 horse-powei motor. It has large pipes which are connected with the heating plant's various openings and. when this If done and the auction force Is applied all the winter's accumulations of dust dirt and soot are removed from al parts of the system. 1 |