Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-01-28


That is,-if vessel of cold water be
placed over fire, and half hour be
required to heat it from the freezing to
the boiling point,-then it will be found
to require five more half hours to cvap-
crate all the water. Consequently, IN
burning cord of green wood, the heat
required TO drive off the six barrels oil
water in steam, which must be done
while the wood is burning, is five times
as great as the mere boiling of the water,
or equal to heating thirty barrels TO boil
ing. Hence, the farmer who burns
twenty cords of green wood in a winter,
as many do, also performs the needless
task of evaporating sixty barrels of wa
ter, which is equal to heating TO the boil
ing point no less than six hundred bar
rels.
Is there any mistake or error in these
calculations? Then let it be pointed
out. The weight of water in green
stick, may be easily known by first
weighing it, then seasoning it by the
stove few weeks, and weighing again.
In this way the quantity of water in a
cord may be determined without mis-
take. The heat required for evapora-
ting can be ascertaincd by experiment
All the other calculations follow as a
matter of course, and contain no mate
rial error. Now is the time for every
one to have his wood cut year in adj
vance, and, if possible, two years, SO as
to season one year under shelter.
Again-It has been found that in a
common fireplace, the loss of heat which
escapes through the chimney, is nine
tenths of the amount caused by the con.
sumption of the wood ; that is, nine
lenths are lost. This has been deter
mined by comparing the quantity of
wood needed to heat the same room c.
qually, where fireplace, and a stove
with forty feet pipe, were each used.-
Hence, the village which burns thou
sand cords of wood in e-places, ex-
ponds nine-tcnths of this amount, or nine
hundred cords, in heating the air above
the chimney-tops. Through the chin
ney of large Fireplace, there is cur
rent of hot air, foot square, and mo-
wing four feet a second. That is, four
cubic feet of hot air are sent out into
the wide atmosphere every second, which
is equal to eighty-six thousand cubic feet
in twenly-four hours, the amount which
every farmer, who uses an open fire.
place, contributes to the winds.
FEEDING Domestic ANIMALs.-If one
COW daily treads three pounds Of hay I'M
der foot in the mud, she will waste about
a hundred pounds per month or a herd
of twenty cows would waste ton per
month. At this rate, how many times
every ten years, would the quantity was
ted pay the expense Of making feeding
boxes and racks?
WATERING CATTLE.-Many farmers
suffer loss by not providing good and
convenient water for their cattle. An
animal that is compelled to go half a
mile over slippery road, and chased
perhaps by dogs, cannot gain in flesh by
the operation. If COW has to travel
twice a day half mile to water, aud re-
turn, she travels two miles a day or
ten COWS perform twenty miles of trav-
cling per day, and two thousand miles
each winter.
GATEs.-Every field on the farm
should be entered by good self-shut-
ting and seli-fastening gate. Farmers,
who are too busy in summer to make
them, or get them made, should see TO
it now. How long does it require to
take down and put up set of bars ?
At least two minutes which if repeat
ed three times day for year, amounts
to thirty hours, or three days of work
ing time-which would yearly pay for
a good gate. Or, examine it in another
point of view,-three times a day is
eighteen hundred times year now is
there any man between Halifax and Cal
fornia, who would take down and re-
place set Of bars eighteen hundred
times in succession, in payment for a
farm gate? Hardly-yet this is the
price yearly paid by those who use bars
that are constantly passed, and the gate
is not obtained by it. Again-how much
better is well-hung gate, than one half.
: hung or one with good self-lasten-
ing latch, than one with pin crowded
into an auger-hole? Try it by dragging
r badly hung gate over the ground
eighteen hundred times in constant sue
: cession, securing it each time with a pin
and see if you do not think this labor
would pay for good hinges and latch