The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-10-06

The Coal Situation
Solved
you house this winter without installing any
invention experimenting with oil or gas?
you want to use your old heater and cook stove without
cha of CRATES get better results from and save money on
coal?
You do all this by burning what the majority of the
pie the United States their cook Stoves hot air furnaces
open CRATES heaters and steam boilers viz what is
commonly known as soft coal
There are great many soft coal mines and only few hard
coal mines 500 million of soft and only 80 million
Of hard coal mined yearly Hard Anthracite coal is and
will be luxury just as long the people of New England New
York New Jersey and very few other places think that they
have to use it. Nearly all the Middle Southern and Western
used Pennsylvania except the region where hard coal is
mined and east of there,
Soft or Bm1inous Coal is divided into two classes Btumn-
and Semi Bminous the first containing from % to As per
cent and the second from to p cent of volatile carbon
for domestic with the proper adjustment of hampers all
Of the volatile be burned without the slightest trouble
from smoke SCOT makes hotter fire when needed and can
be banked and kept better than hard coal 1t all burns to ashes
and has only half the ash that is in hard coal so that you will
AS every and heater has different draft it will be
say try different regulations till the correct has been dis
This should not be difficult and in day you
will learn just how to adjust the hampers for your particular
Always remember that in starting fire for the first time
in the fall either with hard soft COAL that first must get
your chimney to get draft at ALL Build good wood
fire and warm your chimney up we'll before put coal
of any kind 1t is also well have your chimney cleaned out
fore starting your fire.
Semi iunous Coal does in sizes like hard coal,
IN what is known of mne
that is in humps of different sizes and fine COAL This fine coal
dirt but is all coal that has been broken mining and
.buns we'll if better than the humps The humps good
Ito the fire with but after the fire is started the fine
Just as good.
After getting chimney put humps the wood and
after they well ae put little of the fine at time until
you have the fire box about half full
After you good bed close bottom draft but keep
the chimney draft OPEN Never close the chimney dampe tight
but leave partly open carry off any unburned gases.
AftppJ uh9Vn1 COO0 ire Won
has formed over the top By breaking this with straight
poker you get hotter fire or by letting alone have the
fire keep long time.
door of the fire box (hru which put the coa)
will find Slide which in almost should be kept
all the time Semi Bmnous coal needs top draft to properly
burn the volatile carbon.
In putting coal the fire do entire top OF fire bed
but leave red Goals showing on either side or front
After using coal for a week you will wonder why
tried before There why cannot do
well as in town in Massachusetts where had burned Is
of hard coal each winter in his house and had
this coal for the last three he has used
average and every the house
has been
W. A. Clark president of the New England Coal Dealers
sOcaton of Milk Street. Boston, has the following to the
New England coal situation:
"You will receive the 60 per suggested the ton
territory would receive. is impossible under
public that there be abundance of Anthracite available
when needed like this absolutely incorrect and
in accordance with the facts
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