River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-08
PAPER EoR FARMERS.
- Value as "A Non-Conductor Explaine
In a Cninmon-S Sense Way.

PAPER FOR FARMERS.
~ Value as a Non-Conductor Explained
in a CommOn-Sense Way.
The advantages arising from the use
of remembering walls for dwellings,.
cellars. cola storage warehouses, silos,
etc. are not nearly as we'll understood
as they should be- OF all the materials
used in building, wood is the best and
brick the next best On-Qonductor,
while thick paper is useful In combi-
nation with other materials, from its.
afr-tight qualities and great pliability-
Wooden boxes of flowers and plants
lined with thick paper are shipped
thousands of miles in the dead OF
winter. and sometimes carried in a.
wagon for an hour in zero tempera-
ture without injuring the contents. L
once shipped a lot OF apples in dry
goods boxes to Columbus, a distance
of 40 miles. The railroad agent
promised that the fruit should reach
its destination the following day, but
It was near She holidays. and | took
the precaution to line the boxes
with newspapers. The weather sud
denly turned cold; the freight.
through some earelessness, was
carried 800 miles out of the way, and
reached its destination fourteen days
after shipment with the thermometer
s deg. below zero. Yet the apples
we're not frozen, except a few around
a kraOt-hOle. where the paper xas
broken. Having occasion last winter
TO deliver few bushels of apples in u
cold day. put them IN paper flour
sacks and allowed them to stand several
hours in a warm room. They were
then carried two hours in an open
sleigh. with the temperature at II deg
above zero. without freezing, and could
doubtless have been carried two hours
longer without injury. Being IN
temperature of 20 deg. when taken out
il took n long time TO reduce this to p
deg. (the temperature at which apples
freeze). protected as they were by the
impenctrable walls Of the paper sacks
In building the value of paper for
excluding cold may be OveUestimated-
Two thicknesses of boards, with Il
thickness of building paper between.
j. not sufficient siding for a green
house. My own experience is that
without other aid, such wall affords
insufficient protection from continued
cold. Its efficiency will be quadru-
pied by the addition OF a dead-iiir
space Examples can be found i'll
nearly every village TO prove this
Homes are built. Enclosed with sheath
ing paper and siding, and then used n
year or two before the builder feels
able to lath and plaster. After the
plastering is completed aud the joints
cefled, with the holdings covering all
Joints aad forming a dead-air space
between the studding, the rooms can
be warmed. and kept so, with about
half the fuel needed before.
In the care OF a silO the matter OF
heat and cold is not as important as
that OF exclusion Of the air, as the en-
silage affords sufficient internal heat
to carry it through the coolest part OF
winter without extraordinary precau-
lions For this reason two thick
nesses of boards, separated by firm,
clOse-grained paper. is sufficient, and,
owing to the wet nature OF tns con-
tents. il has been found that matched
lumber is of no special advantage, as
the matching warps out In other
+ cases. as of cold storage and green
houses, it pays to use matched boards.
as good, tight. dry board is an excel
+ ent nOn-cOnductOr, and ii is OF no advan-
tage to have a yawning open crack
once in zen or twelve inches, although
statements are seen in newspapers that
rough, unmatched lumber is as gOOd
as any. rs the paper i expected to
make it duly non-ductive. II stock
+ ing full of holes is as good as whole
one. then a sbeathing with yawning
cracks and kuot-holes Is as good as u
tight one,
Where ceIlaTs are under an unwarm-
ed part of the house, it Is often difficult
TO keep them warm, even when banked
The cold comes through the floor over
head. Ceiling the under side OF the
Joints with matched lumber will often
remedy the difficulty. Many dollars
could be annually saved in stables If
I they we're lined with building paper.
kept in position and protected with q
( lining of boards. The boards need not
be more than half an inch thick, but
should be well seasoned and the edges
matched Two half-inch boards with
paper between maize an excellent parti
ton between stable and a carriage
house. keeping the stable warm and
the carriage-rOom free from ammonia,
so destructive to paint and varnish.-
/ American Agriculturist.