1807. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
753 
UTILIZING HEAT FROM FIREPLACE. 
Certainly your Virginia reader, page 509, 
can heat his chambers from his fireplace. 
Any competent steam fitter can place a coil 
of 1% or 1%-lnch pipe in the fireplace, con¬ 
necting it with hot water radiators in the 
rooms above. In addition to that, provided 
he has a water supply, he can attach a hot 
water boiler, bath tub and bowls, although 
a separate coil of brass pipe would be neces¬ 
sary for this purpose. All our hot water, 
and It Is hot, for a 30-gallon boiler supplying 
bath tub, bowls and set wash tubs, is pro¬ 
duced by a %-inch brass coil passing around 
the firebox of the kitchen range three times, 
and wood is the only fuel used. f. c. c. 
Maine. 
It is a very easy matter to utilize all the 
waste heat going up a chimney from a fire¬ 
place, if desired, but a simple way to get the 
benefit of a good portion is to fit the chim¬ 
ney with a false flue like accompanying dia¬ 
gram. If the chimney has an area of at 
least 96 square inches one can put a 6-inch 
galvanized iron pipe in the chimney and still 
have area enough to carry off the smoke and 
gases, and if the chimney has more surface all 
the better. The modus operand! is to make 
a hood somewhat larger than the chimney 
and have a round or square opening in cen¬ 
ter of hood equal to the diameter or square of 
the pipe one wishes to use; then extend 
pipe up to six Inches above the point where 
one wishes to get the heat in the hall or 
room. At that point insert a baffle plate In 
the chimney to direct the heat toward 
the room. One can put a register in the 
chimney or fit a conducting pipe there, and 
extend it off to a room at some distance. 
I can assure the Virginia inquirer if he burns 
enough wood to heat a good-sized room with 
the fireplace he will have enough heat to 
comfortably warm several rooms above the 
ground floor. In the cut A B is the hearth; 
C E F pipe or register; I> baffle plates; G 
cold air currents to mingle with hot air in 
chimney. j. c. benang. 
SMALL FRUITS IN OLD PASTURE. 
One of our readers in northern New York 
says he has a piece of very old pasture land, 
which he thinks of breaking up and setting 
to strawberries and raspberries. He wants 
to know when would be the best time for 
him, in that latitude, to set the plants, and 
should he plow tinder a heavy coat of sta¬ 
ble manure? Would you set in the Spring 
or Fall, and would you use the manure, as 
this man suggests, for these crops? 
I would surely set raspberries in the 
Spring, and I would not set strawberries in 
the Fall as late as this, as they will not get 
well enough established, but will be liable 
to heave out in the Spring. Put on ns 
much stable manure as his supply will al¬ 
low, and as it is a very old pasture, turn it 
over this Fall and let the frost act on it. 
In the Spring disk it and make as fine as 
possible, particularly for the strawberries. 
c. e. c. 
It Is rather risky to set strawberries on 
sod, especially a sod that has been pastured. 
Such land, while it may be fertile, or can be 
made so, is very apt to be infested with 
white grub, the worst enemy of the straw¬ 
berry. My plan has been to plow under the 
sod with a heavy coat of manure, say 40 
loads per acre, and plant to corn. After 
the corn Is harvested in the Fall apply an¬ 
other coat of manure and plow under. Sum¬ 
mer-made manure is usually quite free from 
weed seed, and if the corn has been well 
cultivated the piece will be niuch easier 
cared for. By plowing very late we expose 
or break up the cells which contains the 
white grub, which in fact is the only prac¬ 
tical way to destroy them in such ground as 
an old pasture. Fall setting of strawberries 
is seldom practiced by commercial growers, 
and is usually too expensive for a large 
patch. However, if one is in a hurry for a 
crop, or for backyard gardening Fall-set 
plants are better than none. In my 20 
years’ experience with strawberries I have 
never found the land too rich or too clean. 
The above applies to raspberries as well. 
JOHN JEANNIN, JR. 
MORE IVY POISON SUFFERERS. 
I have been a great sufferer from ivy 
poisoning, and naturally feel interested. In 
my own case very little could be done to 
cure. In about a week it passes off anyway, 
and I have found in case the hands were 
affected, a pair of soft cotton gloves to cover 
the affected parts would prevent swelling 
and itching, and hasten the recovery. Use 
no grease, as vaseline, or that nature. By 
covering with cotton, with a little talcum, 
I could pursue my occupation with little in¬ 
convenience. f. w. c. 
Connecticut. 
I have noticed several cases of people 
who were poisoned with ivy, and did not 
seem to know just what to do for it. I had 
been troubled with it for 20 years, and 
could not find anything to cure it until one 
day I found a recipe which cured it; it was 
one drop of carbolic acid in 20 drops of 
water. Keep poison damp with this, and be 
sure to bathe it to the edge of the poison. 
Tiffin, O. e. e. d. 
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