jo THE SMALL COUNTRY PLACE 



one has sufficient area the supply can be cut and the 

 lot improved with each yearly cutting. The heat from 

 wood is less lasting than that from coal, and the work of 

 attending the fires much greater. Where wood is used 

 it should be stored where it may be easily reached. 

 Wood must be burned in close stoves to be economical 

 of heat, but in such stoves airtights the oxygen of the 

 air is quickly exhausted unless there is adequate ven- 

 tilation through a fire-place or open spaces into the 

 chimney near the floor. Large cast-iron airtight stoves 

 are now made in which may be burned large sticks of 

 one or two cuts which will last a long time and keep up 

 an even heat. Coal stoves for heating living-rooms 

 are open to some of the objections urged against the 

 wood stove, but they take up less space and the heat is 

 more even. Where one must buy wood its cost, includ- 

 ing cutting up for the stove, will in most localities be 

 equal that of coal. 



Furnace Heat. 



A large amount of labor is required to keep stoves 

 running in several rooms of a house and the consequent 

 dirt and dust is very annoying. In the more com- 

 fortable modern country houses we now find the heating 

 done by one large furnace or boiler in the cellar or base- 

 ment. By this method only one fire is kept up, and 

 where the coal or wood is stored close to the furnace 

 little or no more work will be required to run it than 

 would a single stove in the rooms above, where all 

 of the fuel is carried up and the ashes taken out every 

 day. With tight floors and well-fitted registers and 

 pipes all the dust and dirt are kept from the rooms 

 above. 



