The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-01-13
for the farmer.
cgUNKs AND KNOTS.

Vow is the time to get rid of the rough knots
and chunks which accumulate through the sum
mer. aud which the cook and Kitchen girl 50
abominate that they pass them by. The open
fireplace should be piled with them. They make
good lasting Christmas fires, and while the men
folks have long evenings beside the fire, let
them make a business Of it, to clear the wood
house of every knot or chunk that has been 20
long stumbled over by the women in the wood
honse.
Where there is an open-top store, very ROACH
s-ocd can be burned by making q raised lid Of
sheet iron or tin. which allows tine wood to ex
tend above the top of the stove. sueh lid, sci
over the smoothing irons, on ironing days. too,
will be found TO hasten the heating of the irons
and TO save at least q third OF in: wood. When
the kitchen stove is used for heating the rooui,
too. this cover may he used TO great advantage
and saving The lids aud middle piece taken
ont of the top of the stove, it will admit large
rough stick. which may extend above the top
four to six inches. Now set the raised cover
over it, and the radi2ting surface is greatly in
creased. and the housekesper enabled to eeoao-
mize fnel, and promote comfort in the house
hold and neainess in the wood house. In care
for such little things. the farmer promote
the comfort of his family, At no increased outlay,
and eau keep the stumbling blocks ont of the
way and promote neatDeSs about the home.
As these old housekeepers get out of the wood
house, there will lie in there for saving
and splitting
WOOD FOR SIMMER.
Let the odd hours and stormy DAYS lie spent
in the wood-house The and boys can cut,
split, and pile mp enough wood at such times so
that when blowing, and spring and summer
work come, there will be call for wood TO he
cut before the meals can he cooked.
WoOd-sawing is EOt hard work, in cold wealth
er, but who ever slw farm hand or boy that
could stand il TO wood with mercury ia the
ninetiesf There is no time for loafing. on 4
farm. IL there is no other job of work in sight,
there is always a chance for an industrious man
in the
woOD-HOUsE.
The farmer Who has no wood-house and whose
family have TO build fires with wood wet with
rains or iced over with sleet, nr buried in snow,
is not doing much for the comfort of his family,
o considering what he loses in drying the cord
wood in a stove a fireplace. BE il remem-
bered, that if the wood is not dry in the wood
house, il will have be- dried in the fireplace
stove before IL will bum, or give of any heat.
II is poor economy TO convert orr sitting rooms
into places for kiln drying cord wood. The
wood can be dried At less expense in the sun,
and kept dry under the roof. The wood-bouse
need not be large or expensive, If only the stove
wood he cut with a cToss-cut saw, and split in
the woods, before hauling and piling neatly in
the wood-house. 1t is good economy to build an
ICE-HoUsE
at the end of the wood house. and use il for sor-
ing sawdust, the rest Of wood-hOuse above the
ties, near the roof. If stored there in the
mer time, il will be dry and he in readiness for
winter packing.
Then, too when the ice-house is to be cleared,
for packing ice. the sawdust can he thrown over
head, out of the way, thus utilizing part Of
the wood-house not generally used, and making
the ice-houSe more easily built, and more con-
ycnient. These leisure evenings can well he EN-
ployed working out the detail of such hints
| above given.