The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-08-15
NUMBER 30.
OIL STOVES.
Their Convenience, Care and Possibilities.

Their Convenience, Care and Possibilities.
BY all means have an oil stove but do
not make the mistake of expecting it to
do everything or take care of itself. II
will be a help in proportion to its size
and your skill in its use. Even the sin.
gle wick lamp stove that costs but sew
enty-five cents will save building fire
in the kitchen stove at night if the lamp
stove be lighted in season.
Put two quarts of water in a covered
pail and let it boil, then make the tea
and there will be sufficient hot water
left for use at the table. Now put two
or three quarts of water heating for dish
water, and as soon as the meal is over
often before, the water will be boiling.
In the same way an early breakfast of
coffee, eggs or meat may be prepared
for one or two persons or for whole
family il there is something cooked on
hand. But kitchen work, especially
farm work calls fora quantity of hot
water in the morning, and it is mostly
to save time in an emergency that the
small lamp stove is convenient at break.
fast time. When half dozen handker.
chiefs, few collars or laces are to be
done up the one wick stove saves time,
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best for general family use is three
wick stove with an extension top and a
movable oven. With one of these it is
no exaggeration TO say that the ordinary
cooking of four or five persons can be
done well. AS to the best kind, oil stoves,
like sewing machines, differ but in slight
respects, and the latest makes are great
improvements over the clumsy articles
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modern oil stove the oil stove of d dozen
years ago seems an awkward, inconven
lent utensil. 1t has an oil tank and
above it a water tank through which the
wick tubes pass as in some of the mod
ern stoves, but over the whole a movea-
BILE iron tripod is placed upon which the
kettles or the round oven are set. There
is an obvious waste of heat in this early
invention, although before the purchase
of an improved stove it was thought to
be wonderful help in hot weather.
Take the same care of stove that you
would give to lamp ill it. rub off the
wick, and wash the outside every morn
ing. Once week turn the wicks low
and rub the inside of wick tubes with
coarse paper or sand paper to take eff a
crust that will form upon them. Change
WlcB5 OIlen, Jne ola WlcKS nee0 not De
thrown away until burned too short to
reach the oil, but they should be taken
out once in three or four weeks and
J washed clean and white in strong soap
suds, Rinse and dry thoroughly before
} using, Use only the best oil, which is
not expensive. 1t is no safer to use oil
of low grade in an oil stove than in a
table lamp, and the risk is too great to
be tempted by the possibility of saving
two or three cents week. In putting
, out the flame do not blow it out but turn
the wicks low and the flame will be
slowly extinguished, leaving no smell at
in case it was suddenly blown out.
Before using the oyen fill the reservoir
3 aud the result will be better than if the
: supply was low. Sometimes smell ol
3 kerosene will be noticed when using the
stove, and 1t is a sign of imperfect com
e bustion perhaps the stove stands in &
: draught, the wick tubes may be cruslet
slightly, the wicks may not fill the tubei
= entirely, or the stove is not perfectly
e clean.-Neto England Farmer.