Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-09
WALLACE CR0SSLEY,
Federal Fuel Administrator for Missouri.
GENERAL RULES OR HIGH POINTS IN
MANAGEMENT FOR ALL HEATING


l. BE sure there is a CHECK DRAFT
DAMPER IN THE SMOKE-PIPE, be-
sides the turn-damper. This check draft
damper is as important in controlling the
rate at which the fire burns as is the
throttle of an engine. Open it to check
the fire. Close it to make the fire burn
more rapidly. Experiment with it in the
daily regulation of your fire. Make it do
It's work. The coaling-door was not put
on the heater to check the draft. If YOU
cannot check the fire without opening
the c~oaling-door, you need proper dam
pers.
2. The turn-damper should fit the
smoke-pipe loosely and must never be
entirely closed. With the average plant
1t may be kept partly closed most of the
time in mild weather, but during severe
Weather it usually needs to be opened
wide.
.. Make use of the lift or s~lide-damper
IN the coaling-door ONLY TO LETT
OXYGEN IN TO CONSUME GASES, if
you are using soft or bituminous coal.
after fresh Goa has been added.
4. Just enough draft and that from
below, checking the draft by LETTING
MORE AIR INTO THE SMoKE-PIPE.
IS one of the best general rules. This
furnishes oxygen from below, necessary
Ior the consumption of the coal-gases
ana at the same time gives time for them
70 pc consumed before being drawn up
the cflllnney. h method also avoids
escape of coal-gas into the cellar. To
make the fire burn more rapidly do not
open the whole ash-pit door, hut only the
draft-damper in the ash-pit door. OpAn-
ING the whole ash-pit supplies air to the
nre raster than it is needed for combus
tioh. Inc air is heated, passes out the
cnlmney and is SO much heat wasted.
o. All heat pipes in the cellar should
De thoroughly and completely wranped
with asbestos or similar covering ia nra-
vent loss of radiation.
.. Crates should be cared for pronerIv
"A short. quick stroke of the shaker handle
VIII sift the ashes through the CRATES
Leave crates in fiat position when
through shaking. Clean ash-pit daily Ia
prevent damage to CRATES. In severe
Weather crates should be shaken until a
sloW appears in ash-pit. In moderate
weather a bed Of ashes should be car
rled on top of the CRATES.
z. Avoid poking and slicing fre-hed
1t causes draft holes and clinkers.
3. Never shake a fire that is low ,,n+i1
you have put on a little fresh coal and
gwen 1t tint to ignite. A thin fire
wastes coal, Disturb the fire as little as
possible. g
D. Storm-windows and storm-doors.
weather-strips and such protective de-
wees are economical of heat.
~. Keep the temperature of sitting
room at sixty Weight degrees or less. IF
mere are invalids, old folk or very little
ehlldren In the family, the temneratrra
may be higher. Rooms where Won do not
SIT are more comfortable if much cooler
rs a rule, providing the air is kept 4
70 moist. Get a Thermometers good
use 1t inside, not hanging outdoors
IL. 1t is wasteful to allow the tan,-
'erature to drop way down at night II
axes twice as much coal to heat If I'm
again~n morning.
Il. Turn off the heal in unused rooms
possible. Bedrooms shouId
le Kept much cooler than living rooms
Jont try to heat all the rooms all +ba
Ii you have a hot water svs+ar,
make heavy radiator sli-covers and nut
mem over radiators when not in use
ms VIII prevent freezing.
10. Always keep two pans or onen.+or |
OF fresh water on radiators or in +,
ront of registers to keep the home moist ;
IA. Study the Specific Rules annlving
Q the system of heating in your house. {
SPECIFIC rules, compiled by the United {
tates Fuel Administration, distributes I
y the bureau of Public information. Mis- /,
ourl Women's Committee, Council NJ '
satlonal Defense, Mrs. Lon O.. Hooker J
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