The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-01-20
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
How to Treat q Stove I'm Winter.

We mean a wood stove. First, build a
good fire. When it is burned down some
what, so that there is a good bed of Goals,
add more wood, and let 1t be heavier, with
a few small sticks. Get this in a full
blaze, and let it burn for q few minutes.
By this time your room is pretty well
ventilated; for stove with good draft
is the best Of ventilstors. Your room is
not yet warm. This is in consequence Of
the ventilation going on. Not only that.
the air which is drawn up by the stove is
cold, and cools the stove, thus preventing
it from heating with hot air Thus there
is current, not only in the room but in
the stove, (which draws up the heat" as
it is said, and truly. This, in great
measure, accounts for the hardness of
warming a room in the morning. The
ventilation is good, but the GOODNESS of the
room is not good, especially for an invalid.
But close up the stove and in short
time this will be remedied. There is heat
| enough now to retain fire. There will be
the radiation of the Goals and a thin diff
fused flame, while, most of all, the air in
the stove will be, not as it was before,
cool, as it rushes through, but hot, heating
the stove, pipe and all, till up to the
damper. The stove now throws the heat
into the room rapidly without creating a
current. That is the secret of the thing
no current and hot stove.
We were led to these facts more paticu-
larly by stove-pipe in the front apart
ment of our buildings, which we found
wramed greater space sooner than the
stove in the room we occupied. At first
we could not account for it. Why a stove
pipe should warm q room land larger
one at that) sooner than both a stove and
pipe, was beyond our comprehension.
BY careful noting we found that the pipe
in the other room threw out the heat
without getting up a current-without
drawing off the warm air in immediate
contact with it, and fetching in, from
without, the cold air to fill the vacuum
1t was simply a process of heating. In
the other room it was ventilation.
A good bed of Goals, with few large
dry sticks partly burned, and the stove
shut tight, is the best way of heating s
room. 1t is also lasting besides, it is {
saving of wood. In order to heat room
quickly with a stOve-say in the morning
g the draft, or front part of the stove
should be outside of the room. But still
!, the stove would not be so hot as wher
, filled with confined hot air, in addition t.
the radiating heat. The best way is II
close your stove on going to bed, with
large dry stick in it, laid on bed of liv
Goals If your stove is air-ti ght-with jus
, sufficient dranght to take off the smoke
you will have bed of Goals in the morn
| Ing, and warm stove. Now fill wit
wood-small sticks below, large or TOP
, Let it blaze few minutes, then close tn
t draught. In few minutes more you
. room will begin to feel comfortable, thOug
there seems to be dead stove. For ven
tilation, let it burn longer before the dam
e per is turned, with less wood. The ven
i, tilation and warming may thus be done a
: any time by turn of the damper
/ Another advantage is, to have the fir
s in one end of the stove, toward the plac
where you most are, thus throwing tn
-. heat upon YOU Each housekeeper shoul
. have pan of chips or small wood to fee
e the fire when needed. Distribute fc,
=. small sticks among the pile, or, better
y throw handful of chips upon it. Thi
will start up the fire at once
But few know the advantage of set
{ soned wOod-fewer still of Thoroughly Sc;
3 sOned wood. 1t would pay to make kill
dry to dry your wood. If You do not bt
: lieve this, try piece of wood that ha
> long been near stove, or in some otht
hot place for long time. 1t will at ono
u take fire, and burn like an inflammab
q gas. There's hot, white light that wi
l. do the business at once. Above all thing
|, avoid green wood. Burn it not suffer
i throw it out; go from home, rather tina
IS be pestered. But do a good deal to O.
dry wood. Do more to get dry mapl
n and more still to get hickory; but mo
e of all, exert yourself to get thorough,
" dried not seasoned" wood VIII;
Y should be the text of every housewife
e first and foremost-dry, hard Woo
Avoid all snappish wood, as it is sure
a make the cook snappish.