Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-01-21
How to Treat a stove in Winter.

We mean a wood stove. First, build O
good fire. When 1t is burned down some
what, so that there is good bed Of Goals,
add more wood, aud let It be-heavier, with
a few small sticks Get this in full
blaze, and let 1t burn for 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
Il from heating with hot air. Thus there
i1 current, not only in the room but in
the stove, (which draws up the heat" as
1t is said, and truly. This, in great
measure, accounts for the tardiness OF
warming room in the morning. The
ventilation is good, but the coldness 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 he
the radiation of the Goals and thin diff
fused flame, while, most of all, the air in
tho stove will be, not as 1t 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
ihsN wv 'OVai WlIuOuL CTGhllDH u
current. That is the secret of the thing
no current and hot stove.
Viewer led to these facts more paticu-
lsrly 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 stove
pipe should warm a room (and larger
one at thaO sooner than both stove and
pipe, was beyond our compreh cnsion.
by careful noting we found that the pipe
in the other, room threw out the heat
without getting mp a current-without
drawing OIL the warm air in immediate
contact with it, and fetching in, from
without, the cold air TO fill the vacuum.
1t was simply process of heating. In
the other room it was ventilation.
A good bed of Goals, with a few large
dry sticks partly burned, and the stove
shut tight, is the best way of heating a
room. 1t is also lasting; besides, it is a
saving Of wood In order to heat a room
quickly with stove--say in the morning
the DRAFT, or front part of the stove,
should be outside of the room. But still
the stove would not be so hot as when
filled with confined hot air, in addition to
the radiating heat The best way is to
close your stove on going to bed, with a
large dry stick in it, laid on a bed of live
Goals. If your stove is .tight-with just
sufficient drapght to take off the smoke -
you will have a bed of Goals in the morn
ing, and a warm stove. Now fill with
wood small sticks below, large on top
Let 1t blaze few minutes, then close the
draught. In y few minutes more YOU
room will begin to feel comfortable, though
there seems to be dead stove. For ven
tilation, letit burn longer before the dam
per is turned, with less wood. The ven
tilation and warming may thus be done a
any time by turn of the damper.
Another advantage is, to have the fir,
In one end of the stove, toward the plac,
where you most are, thus throwing tn,
heat upon you. Each housekeeper shoulC
have pan of chips or small wood TO feeC
the fire when needed. Distribute few
small sticks among the pile, or, better
throw handful OF chips upon it. Thi
will start up the fire at once.
But few know the advantage Of sea
soned wood-tewer still of thoroughly sea
sonsd wood 1t would pay to make a kiln
! dry to dry your wood. III YOU do not be
lieve this, try piece Of wood that ha
long been near stove, or In some othe
hot place for lcng time. II will at ono,
take fire, and burn like an inflammabl
gas. There's q hot, white light that will
do the business at once. Above all thing
avoid green wood Burn il not suffer
throw II outi go nom home, rather thar
be pestered. But 90 q good deal to ge
dry wood. Do more to get dry maple
and more stillto get hickory; but mos
of all, exert yourself to get thoroughly
dried, not seasoned wood. Wha
should be the text of every housewife
first and toremost-dry, hard wood
Avoid all snappish wood, as Il is sure (,
make the cook snappish, ,--Ercaang&