New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-10
ON WASTE OF COAL.
A HoUsEKEEPER TELLS OF ECONOMICAL.
WAYS TO USE 1T.

HoUsEKEEPER TELLS OF ECONOMICAL
WAYS TO USE IT.
How many men or women know the amount of
coal really sufficient keep a good fire in crate.
furnace stove?' asked experienced housewife.
Not one in a hundred. Yet this question OF sup
piles ought TO be of the first things learned in
domestic mana gement. Half ton of nut coal is
ample to keep fire night and day in No kitchen
range for month in winter. From three-eighths
10 One-quarter of is all that should be used
in fall or spring month. and this does not mean
poor, stunted fires. 1t is enough for all cookery
and genial warmth. and TO more means igno-
rant waste
"A cylinder stove heating a Il feet square
and 10 feet in height will call for the same amount
of larger coal When strong fire is needed in cold
weather, mixture of egg and nut coal Is good III
range or close parlor stove using the finer coal to
start the morning fire and egg coal for the charge
last half day. 4 small furnace, keeping the
ordinary ten room house comfortable night ana
day in all weather. be run with an average OF
one ton of hard coal month the season through
which means less than ton for the mider inohthS'
and something moro in bitter midwinter. Halt
cord OF split kindng in six inch lengths VIII DE
enough for six months of cold weather with good
usage.
This looks impossible to the easy going house
keeper. whose cook throws huge scuttleiui OF
coal on the range three times day, and whose
furnaceman has a commission from the coal dealer
or whose head of the family doesn' know any more
about such matters than usual t'u' PeISo"t'l "a
perence for years proves the allowance correct
II simply includes knowing how
In cold weather clear fire is economy The
ashes are to be- thoroughly cleared by shaker and
poker from range ana furnace the first thing. I'M
less IA strong draught of windy night has burned
the fire almost out when the CRATE must be care
fully shaken leaving bed of ashes tn hold the
live GOALS. which to b. kindled up with hair a
dozen pieces of kudIinE wood. two inches thick
and a small shovel of fine coal, with open drauBhtS.
As soon as the coal is red and burning wei. IN hve
or ten minutes a shovel of coal Is added II
in a hurry heat the house up. make the furnace
6ra nm coal and when we'll lighted close
the back draughts. When all the layer OF coaI Is
aght close all hampers and drauEnts so ihaI IN
doors In careleSsiy tended fires three-fourtns inc
heat from the fuel goes MP the CHIMNEY. HIs y
SAHdhllS u tt't ~ tHiiN
the only method FOR heating private houses
Careful firing insists on having al me ashss
sfted twice the first time with M 'pHiinpl
coarse screen Of half inch mesh. which leaves the
cinders ready for use. after picking out the sag
The second time the ashes run through a screen
cinder scales the size of buckwheat coal. usctn
for keeping fires at night when strong neat IS
needed.
~Aii CLASSY stony pieces are to be picked from
the cinders with gloved hands or claw tonSs neh
dampen the cnders either with spray from a mn
watering pot by sprinkling with WhlskorooHl
dipped in a basin Of water Dampen out 90 NOT
wet the cinders coarse and fine. When the break
fast fire is not needed and the mouse IS Put
on range and furnace "A charge of fresh coal three
four inches deep, open draughts hNe minutes 20
let the smoke pass off and the coal TO catch hre:
| cinder scales that. and close draughts "A wen
made fire should keep from four to ten hours with
out repenishing. On mild days. with little wind a
fire tended will last till night; and so mace ul
at 10 O'Clock in the evening Will keep al IgHt. II
| cnkers form In the furnace throw IN scrap IN
! and they will fuse and drop when the hre purhs
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