1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
4 2 5 
CONSTRUCTION OF SMOKEHOUSE. 
About a year ago 1 asked you for some 
information regarding the construction of 
a smokehouse, and you kindly published 
my query and several replies from mem¬ 
bers of The R. N.-Y. family, but none of 
them suited my case. I had the use .of a 
neighbor's smokehouse, and it was a good 
one of its kind, but too hot for my idea 
of what a good smokehouse ought to be. 
One morning, when riding over to start 
a smudge in the basement of that house, 
the idea occurred to me to build a house 
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like the accompanying plan, as I was to 
get out a cellar for a new barn anyway, 
I thought there would not be much trouble 
to build an oven and have a pipe from it 
to the smokehouse, and so get away from 
the heat of the burning wood, and yet have 
all the smoke required. The plan will 
explain itself, and the picture shows the 
5-“ 
'v. ... 
building as it stands at the end of the 
barn, with- the meat showing inside the 
door. The oven is three feet square, and 
has a sheet-iron door opening into barn 
cellar. The pipe leading from it to smoke¬ 
house is a 10-inch glazed earthen pipe, 
with an elbow at each end to give the turn 
required. Over the end of the pipe in 
floor of house- you will notice an affair 
marked “deflector;” it is a flat square 
Iron. 
Poor 
who has a cellar can make a smokehouse 
like this one, with very little expense, and 
there will be little or no heat from the 
oven. A thermometer 10 feet from my 
oven stood at 40 degrees all the time I 
was smoking (15 days). Some people 
might think that this was far too fine a 
house for them to build, but if they adopt 
the underground part they can put any 
kind of house on it they want. This one 
is on a gentleman’s private home, and has 
to be in keeping with the other buildings. 
_ A. M. 
FACTS ABOUT WINDMILLS 
G. C., Newark, Dela .—I wish following In¬ 
formation from Chas. Q. Eldredge, page 199 : 
Why does he use frame 60 feet high, iron or 
wood frame? Does mill stand directly over 
well? What is cost of mill ready for use? 
I would like same information from W. T. 
P. ; also kind of pump used. 
The pump is a Hoosier three-way wind¬ 
mill pump, made bv Flint & Walling Mfg. 
Co. This pump is a good one, and sells 
for about $10 with windmill head; all the 
wearing parts are made of brass, very lit¬ 
tle cast-iron, mostly gas pipe. w. T. p. 
I use a 60-foot steel angle iron tower, 
and it had to be that high to carry it 
above the peak of my home. A wind¬ 
mill to work well must be higher than 
anything in its immediate vicinity. The 
mill does not stand within 100 feet of 
well, or over pump. Pump is driven by a 
belt from my line shaft, and a l)4-inch 
suction pipe leads to well and reservoir. 
I can pump from either by opening one 
valve and closing the other. A windmill 
like mine, 16 feet, with 60-foot tower, all 
galvanized, perpendicular shaft with bevel 
gear below to drive horizontal shaft, one 
length of shafting, and pump all complete 
and set would cost about $300. I use an 
Aermotor mill. chas. q. eldredge. 
CHAIN 
HANGING 
STANCHION. 
Information About Stacking Fodder. 
You probably have readers in the western 
part of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, on 
the line of the Lehigh Valley Kailroad. who 
could inform me through your columns how 
they put up stacks of corn stover or fodder, 
as I have there seen from the cars. They 
are not put up in the round, conical form 
generally followed in haystacks, but some¬ 
thing of the shape of a house, i. e., entirely 
of the bundles of stalks, no lumber about It 
whatever. The advantage I believe to be In 
so putting up corn fodder Is that the stalks 
being put up in any length desired, when 
being used, parts from top to the ground can 
be taken away, leaving none exposed to rain 
or melting snow, as would be in the case of a 
large stack of conical form. Stacks as in¬ 
quired about could be built on old boards 
laid on the ground, avoiding thus the annoy¬ 
ance of freezing fast, and thus a method be 
offered readily to keep all stalks that could 
not be accommodated in a barn, or even bet¬ 
ter than in a barn, there being no danger 
of heating. I would like to have full in¬ 
structions as to how such stacks of corn fod¬ 
der or stover are put up in New Jersey, or 
wherever else the same is done. a. b. c. 
piece of blue stone laid on four pieces of 
brick at the corners, and as the smoke 
strikes it, of course, it has to take a 
horizontal course and fills the whole house 
instead of going up in a straight line for 
the ventilator on top. The ventilator is 
12 inches in diameter, and has a damper 
which I can regulate to suit the weather 
conditions. The basement of the smoke¬ 
house is filled with stones gathered off the 
fields, and five inches of concrete on top 
of them, the walls being nearly three feef 
under the ground line to be below frost 
This house is built of brick, with shin¬ 
gle roof, but a frame building would be 
quite safe, as there are no sparks at that 
distance from the fire, and if hickory is 
used there are no sparks anyway. And I 
only use dry hickory, as I think the smoke 
is sharper and more penetrating than 
from green wood. I cut one-inch pipe to 
run across the house the narrow way, and 
made hooks of heavy No. 9 wire to fit 
easily on the pipe, and had a long one 
and a short one alternate, so that I can 
hang a big lot of meat and yet have none 
touching, as I can roll the pipe any dis¬ 
tance apart, and slide the hooks as near 
or as far from each other as I want. I 
have found the above arrangement a great 
improvement on stationary nails driven 
into cross beams. I have just finished 
smoking a batch of pork, and have it 
thoroughly done, and yet only a nice color 
like hams that are sold by butchers and 
grocers, and not the black hnlf-cooked 
tilings that usually pass as well-smoked 
hams among us country folks. Anyone 
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