The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-12-30
TURNING The
stove DANPER
DAKOTA FARMER DISCUSSES THE
WASTE BY IMPROPER METHODS
OF HANDLING THE DRAFT ON
THE AVERAGE HEATING STOVE
USE MORE PIPE.


! wy may turn the camper up,
| We may turn the damper down.
BUT the smoke goes up the chimney
Just the same"
And we do not care cent If 1t does.
but when most Of the heat from the
expensive fuel goes along with the
smoke, we do care; and we think
something ought to be done to prevent
it. o-''
Did you ever hold a feather or a
piece of paper over the stove pipe in
a shanty or low house coming direct
from the stove below? If YOU did. and
1t was cold weather, with a good fire
on below, the feather scorched or the
paper burned at once. We venture the
assertion that fully one half the heat
from many small house stoves goes
up and out of the pipe and is wasted
rms is mighty expensive neglect. TO
say the least. Few can afford ii. and
there is no need of it. We saw inst
this going on in the living room of a
small house the other day and that
one room was the only warm room I'm
the house, while heat enough was es
Gaping into the cold night air to make
comfortable every room in the house
II 1t had been used rightly. We have n
wood heater and by putting up seven
lengths of pipe or more than is actual.
ly needed to take the smoke out of the
room, 1t comfortably heats the library
room, the dining room and three 1Ox12
ped rooms curtained off from the first
named large room
II the heat from this single stove
were not held and utilized by hampers
and extra pipe the fuel consumed
would heat but one room, unless hy
added fuel that room was made too hot
Tor comfort, when the other rooms
would feel the effects slightly.
Dampers alone can be made to hold
much heat and save great deal Of
IueL Large drums on pipes extended
into rooms overhead or adjoining, will
do much toward saving all the heat
Where drums cannot be readily had or
afforded, though they cost little, two
extra lengths of pipe with four elbows
can be made into a very good drum.
1t is considered a little safer to have
the chimney come down to the first
moor, so that the pipe can go directly
into the chimney few feet above the
stove. This is great waste of fuel, |
when there is a cold
chamber overhead with no heat or
stove in It. BY putting in a proper
double thimble, there need be no dan
ger whatever in carrying the pipe |
through the floor into the chamber, |
and II properly located drum, or |
engthentng of the pipe is put in there |
nearly the last particle of heat can be
made to do service before 1t escapes /
INTO the outside air.
Much fuel can be saved, too, by
the drafts of cook and other
stoves. A windy day, and il is nearly
always windy on the prairie sx4 winter
ime, a stove full of fuel can soon go
Up the pipe without very much warm
ng the stove if hampers and drafts
ire not carefully looked after.
Again. thin heaters, where wood or
'ther light fuel is burned, throw off
he heat much more quickly and much
more of it, than heavy cast stoves.
We can get more heat out of a news
'aper burned in a thin sheet iron or
teel stove, than a small armfuI of
wood would give in an old time cast
ron stove. The heat simply has to go
up" the chimney, for it is next to i'm
ossible for it to go any where else
We have found, too, that where
ard wood Is burned. and coal when
he draft Is such that smoke or gas
1ill not result, throwing open the front
stove, particularly the cook stove
ill throw much heat into the room
hat otherwise would be lost. Intelli-
ent handling of fuel. pipe and stove
an do much toward comfort and econ
my. We might add in this connection
hat keeping the house shut up closely
nd the air close and unfit to breathe
burn. is not econemizing heat as so
lany misinformed people seem to
link. Good wholesome air can be
Gated with much less expense than
utrid air, besides being a thousand
mes more healthful. Every home
nould be thoroughly aired out at
,ast twice day regardless of tenn
erature, unless 1t is otherwise amply
entilated, and then moments blow
lg through Of pure air will be a bene-
t, and on the side of economy.