1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
687 
HEATING A BARN. 
I have a frame barn which it will be 
necessary to heat next Winter, for a 
special purpose, in all weathers to a tem¬ 
perature of 70 to 75 degrees. It is poorly 
constructed, being simply one thickness of 
common sheathing boards stood on end 
with enough 2x4 timber to hold it together. 
What would be the best way to make it 
tight for Winter? I thought of sheathing 
it inside wdth cheap North Carolina sheath¬ 
ing boards and building paper. How would 
you put the building paper on—tack it right 
on the inside of the present wall from stud 
to stud with strips up and down each stud 
or stretch it on the inside of stud in con¬ 
tinuous strips and nail Inside sheathing 
right over it? Should inside sheathing be 
put on up and down or horizontally? Up 
and down will be much easier. Will above 
be sufficient to stop drafts and enable me 
to keep the place warm? If not. what 
would be required? I cannot use stoves to 
heat with, and would like to know how 
much it -would cost for a second-hand 
'poultry house or greenhouse heater, what 
size it should be, and how many square 
feet of heating surface in common pipe 
coils around walls would be required, to¬ 
gether with probable cost of same second¬ 
hand? Building is 30x15 feet with wing 
12x12; about 125 square feet of glass in 
sides, ceiling tight, 10 feet from floor, loft 
over. I can put in pipe myself and have 
all tools, but do not know cost of material 
or where to get it. Give advice on this 
jioint. c. c. 
N'ew Rochelle, N. Y. 
You will require a very thoroughly 
insulated room to maintain uniformly 
a temperature of 70 to 75 degrees. To 
be sure this may not be difficult in the 
moderate days, but when the thermom¬ 
eter goes dancing around zero, there 
will be a variation of over 100 degrees 
between inside and outside. No cheap 
insulation will guarantee this, without 
an enormous use of fuel. I should build 
the side walls with matched lumber on 
the outside, or if the present siding is 
smooth, you may perhaps as cheaply 
and effectually cover with building 
paper and rehoard, being careful to 
break joints. If the outside hoards 
have warped, making sharp edges, they 
will cut the building paper and destroy 
its usefulness, and new siding complete 
would be better. Inside of the studs 
use paper, over which use sound 
matched lumber. Now completely to 
insulate, there should be a furrowing 
out of at least one inch and another 
covering of paper and hoards. Then 
the doors should all be double and made 
to fit very closely. The two doors may 
for convenience be fastened together. 
The ceiling also must be made very 
tight. I should expect that a floor of 
double boards above and paper and 
matched ceiling under the joists would 
be enough. Put in double windows, 
sure. I have a stable for cows and 
horses built as indicated, and it would 
require much heat to raise the tem¬ 
perature nearly 20 degrees above the 
point which the stock can hold it. I 
am manufacturing during the Winter a 
kind of cheese that requires a uniform 
temperature of 80 degrees and I know 
that ordinary walls will not answer the 
purpose. The sheathing may be put on 
either horizontally or otherwise. 
1 am unable to give any information 
in regard to second-hand heaters. They 
have, like all second-hand stuff, no fixed 
value. A new heater large enough for 
the space given would cost from $20 to 
$25, and any of the stove or furnace 
manufacturers make them. The hotel 
at Madrid, N. Y., is heated throughout, 
and uniformly warm, by two large coal 
stoves, through which pass coils of pipe 
thence to the rooms above. I do not 
think anoyone could accurately give the 
number of feet of pipe required without 
seeing the building and noting the 
method of insulation. In a store or 
house as usually constructed in these 
northern latitudes, 1 should expect one 
foot long of li/4-inch pipe would heat 
60 cubic feet of air space to a tempera¬ 
ture of 65 to 70 degrees, with a demand 
for 10 degrees more, and the chances all 
in favor of a looser insulation. My 
judgment would be that one foot in 
l^ngtlj of T^-ihch pipo wpuld not he9.t 
more than 25 cubic feet. This rule 
would call for 240 feet of 1^-inch pipe 
either set up in the form of radiators 
or carried around the room. I have no 
knowledge that it will make any differ¬ 
ence. It is a good principle to follow 
in work of this kind'to have the machin¬ 
ery in excess of the demand, and there¬ 
by not overtax it. The piping should be 
near the floor. I am assuming that this 
room is for other than stock purposes. 
The cost of common black pipe would 
be above 7% cents per foot, which 
would make $18. To this must be added 
the necessary pipe fittings, valves, etc. 
Write the Chicago House Wrecking 
Company, they may have second-hand 
material that would serve your purpose 
at reduced cost. 
My experience in heating rooms or 
buildings free from partitions, in econ¬ 
omy of fuel has been in favor of hot 
air. While the first cost would be more, 
perhaps twice as much, to dig out a 
small cellar and put in a hot-air fur¬ 
nace without hot-air pipes, simply put¬ 
ting in a grate directly over the furnace 
and full size of the top of the jacket 
opening, and then put in a cold air flue, 
full size, as recommended, and the size 
is always given, taking the cold air 
from the room to be warmed, but direct¬ 
ly under or very near the outside door, 
and from the side of the room likely 
to he coldest, or perhaps the use of two 
cold-air flues from opposite sides of the 
room, thereby ensuring circulation of 
warm air to these places; I should ex¬ 
pect, if to be used for a length of time, 
it would save a good interest on the in¬ 
vestment in economy of fuel. The hot 
air has an objection in producing a very 
dry atmosphere, or possibly in this case 
that might be an advantage.. 
II. E. COOK. 
A MILKMAN'S SUGGESTION. 
There are certain rules governing the 
sale of milk, among them are several 
concerning the subject of cleanliness, 
keeping ice on the milk, how much per 
cent cream, etc. To enforce these rules, 
inspectors from the health board visit 
the dairies and stores where milk is on 
sale from time to time, and report the 
result of their investigation. Now why 
not make it imperative, the same as in 
the case of the permit, and say this re¬ 
port shall be exposed on , the counter of 
every milk store and grocery store, fur¬ 
nishing each inspector with a card in 
bold type to fill in? Don’t compel the ultra 
good to suffer for the sins of iniquitous. 
If Jones keeps his milk at a temperature 
of 38 degrees, and Brown his at 52 de¬ 
grees, compel each to place the fact 
where every buyer can see it. If Smith’s 
milk shows 18 per cent cream and 
White’s only eight per cent, compel them 
to tell every customer who cares to use 
his eyes, of the fact. The consumer is 
the final censor and shaper of customs, 
and if the people were able to make a 
choice understandingly, between a good 
article at an equitable price, and a poor 
one at an under price, the custom of of¬ 
fering three and four-cent milk would 
soon be obsolete. milkman. 
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