Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-08-29
PAPER foR FARMERS.
IT'S Value as a Nom Conductor Explains
In q COmmon-Senss Way.

PAPER FOR FARMERS.
| IT'S Value as a Nom Conductor Explained
In a COnlmon-Senss Way.
The advantages arising from the use
of non-conducting walls for dwellings,
cellars. cold storage warehouses, silos,
etc. are not nearly as well understood
as they should be. OF all the materials
used in building, wood is the best and
brick the next best non-conductor.
while thick paper is useful in combi-
nation with other materials. from its
air-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 a zero tempera-
ture without injuring the contents. |
once shipped lot OF apples in dry
goods boxes TO Columbus, a distance
OF 140 miles. The railroad agent
promised that the fruit should reach
its destination the following day, but
it was near the holidays. and ! took
the precaution to line the boxes
with newspapers. The weather sud-
denly turned cold the freight,
through some carelessness, was
carried 800 miles out of the way, and
reached It's destination fourteen days
after shipment, with the thermometer
deg. below zero. Yet the apples
tuana MT fpn,au avoant a favv onOrpd
knot-hole. where the paper was
broken. Having occasion last winter
to deliver few bushels OF apples in n
cold day, ! put them in paper flour
sacks and allowed them TO stand several
hours in warm room. They were
then carried two hours in an open
sleigh, with the temperature at IA deg.
above zero, without freezing and could
doubtless have been carried two hours
longer without injury. Being in q
temperature of 40 deg, when taken out,
it took long time to reduce this to q
deg. (the temperature at which apples
freeze). protected as they were by the
impenetrable walls of the paper sacks.
In building the value OF paper for
excluding cold may be overestimated.
Two .thicknesses Of boards, with a
thickness of building paper between,
is not sufficient siding for 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-air
space. Examples can be found in
nearly every village to prove this.
Homes are built, inclosed with sheath
ing paper and siding, and then used a
year or two before the builder feels
able to lath and plaster. After the
plastering is completed and the joints
ceiled with the holdings covering all
joints and forming 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 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-graiued paper, is sufficient, and,
| owing TO the wet nature of the con-
tents, it has been found that matched
| lumber is OF no special advantage, AS
a. ant In NJ
cases. as OF cold storage and green
/ houses, it pays TO use matched boards,
as a good, tight, dry board is an excel
| ent non-conductor, and it is OF no advan-
tage TO have yawning open crack
once in ten or twelve inches, although
4 statements are seen in newspapers that
rough, unmatched lumber is as good
as any, as the paper is expected TO
make ii duly non-ductive. If a stock
I Ing full OF holes is as good as a whole
one. then a sheathing with yawniEg
cracks and knot holes is as good a. a
| tight one.
Where cellars are under an unwarm-
ed part OF the house, ii Is often difficult
/ 70 keep tnem warm, even When Dankeu'
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 IL
they were lined with building paper.
kept in position and protected with a
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 make an excellent parti-
ton between q stable and carriage
house. keeping the stable warm and
the carriage-room free from ammonia.
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