The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-10-07

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you house this winter without installing any
invention experimenting with oil or gas?
you your old heater and cook without
cha nge of CRATES get better results from it and money
coal? -.
You can do this by burning what majority of the peo-
pie the United States in their cook Stoves hot air furnaces
open CRATES heaters and boilers what
commonly known as soft coal
There great many soft coal mines and only hard
coal mines Over 500 million tons of soft and only so million
hard mined yearly. Hard Anthracite and
will be luxury just as long people New England New
York New Jersey and very few other places think that they
have Nearly all of the Middle Southern and Western
soft coal their homes for cooking and heating
used also in Pennsylvania in the region where hard coal
Soft Bituminous Coal divided into classes Bmin-
and Semi Bumnous the first containing from % As per
from per of volatile carbon
which is sometimes called gas Semi Btumnous adapted
for domestic with the adjustment Of hampers all
Of the volatile be burned without the slightest trouble
from smoke makes hotter fire when needed and
banked and kept better than hard coal 1t all burns ashes
and has only half the ash that in hard coal so that you will
have sitting do and only half the work in removing ashes
AS every stove and heater has different draft will be
covered This should not be difficult and in day two you
USE general below for guild
Always remember that in starting fire for the first time
fall either with hard soft COAL that first you
your chimney get any draft at ALL Build good wood
fire and chimney up we'll before you put on any coal
of any kind 1t also well to have your chimney cleaned out
well furnace or boiler and all the fes leading from it. be-
fore starting your fire.
Semi Btinous Coal does not sizes like hard COAL
stove egg but in what is known of mine,
that is Jumps Of different sizes and fine coal This fine coal
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burns we'll not better than the Jumps The humps good
the fire with but after the fire started the fine
just good.
After getting chimney put Jumps the wood and
after they we'll afe put little of the fine a time until
you have the fire box about half full.
After you good bed of fire close bottom draft but keep
the chimney draft OPEN Never close the chimney damper tight
but leave it partly open carry off any unburned gases
After you have good fire you will note that coke crust
has formed the top By breaking this with straight
poker hotter fire by letting alone you have the
fire keep long time
In the thu which you put the coaD you
all the time Semi Bitumnous coal needs top draft properly
burn the volatile carbon.
putting coal the fire do not entire top of fire bed
but leave red Goals showing either side front
After using this coal for week you will wonder why you
tried before. There why
well Massachusetts where had burned 16
of hard coal each winter in his house and had
that On this coal for the last three years he has used
only average of and every IN the house
has been
A. Clark president of the New England Coal Dealers as
socaon of Milk Street. Boston, has the following the
New England coal situation:
You will receive the 60 per suggested the ton
mage territory would receive 1t is impossible under present
conditions. Newspapers and politicians delight telling the
public that there be abundance of Anthracite available
needed Statements like this absolutely incorrect and
not in accordance with the facts"
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