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Duty of a Rural Mail Carrier. 
7 ?., Minnesota.- —Is there any set law as 
to how far from the fence line a R. F. It. 
mail box should be set? Our box is about 
four or six feet from the line, and an easy 
place to drive to, but the rural furrier says 
it is too far from the road and will not stop. 
We are on the main travelled road, and 
should we place the box farther out it would 
be in the way of passing teams. 
Ans. —We wrote to Washington re* 
garding this case and secured the fol¬ 
lowing from the Fourth Assistant Post 
Master General: 
"In regard to the proper erection of 
rural mail boxes, we beg leave to state 
that the Department would consider a 
box set from four to six feet from the 
travelled portion of the road as com¬ 
plying with the requirements for locating 
boxes, provided it could be served, by 
the carrier without driving across or into 
a ditch or over obstacles.” 
Our advice is to report the case at 
once to headquarters at Washington. 
Cleaning a Sooty Chimney. 
A. IF. S. (No Address). —I am having 
much trouble with one of ray chimneys 
smoking. The chimney and stove need 
cleaning every week. Is my trouble due, as 
some claim, to a gathering of a black coat 
on inside of flue? We have tried, to get it 
off where we can reach, but find it hard to 
remove. Can it be removed without taking 
down chimney? Flue is about 10 by 12 
inches, with three angles at upper part to 
go through center of roof, 35 feet or more 
from ground. Two ranges enter the flue 
on first floor, one stove-pipe enters in bed¬ 
room on second floor. The angles are above, 
in garret. 
Ans. —If A. W. S. is burning soft 
coal it may be that his only remedy lies 
in a change of fuel. Where soft coal 
which develops much smoke is burned 
in stoves of ordinary construction there 
is often much annoyance, especially in 
ranges, from the gathering of soot on 
the griddles, in the spaces about the 
oven and in the pipe leading to the 
chimney. Those who must burn such 
fuel and experience this annoyance are 
compelled to clean out frequently. 
Some relief is obtained by starting the 
fire in the morning with kindlings of 
some sort which burn vigorously, giving 
a strong blaze, which helps to burn out, 
and carry out mechanically in the 
strong draft, the soot which has ac¬ 
cumulated during the day. Crumpled 
pieces of newspaper burned in the stove, 
sometimes under the oven, introducing 
through the cleaning door, leaving it 
open to permit strong draft, will help 
to clean out the stove and the pipe. 
But there is no permanent relief in such 
treatment, it being simply one of a num¬ 
ber of ways of removing the soot after 
it has accumulated. The fundamental 
difficulty is found in the fact that when 
the air is admitted almost wholly 
through the base and rises up through 
the fuel the more volatile products of 
the coal are liberated by the heat and 
only partially consumed, the carbon 
being set free in the form of soot. It 
is necessary in the burning of such fuel 
to admit some air above the fuel, and 
to keep the fire hot enough above the 
fuel to ignite the escaping gases, per¬ 
mitting them to burn in the form of 
flame, thus consuming the products 
completely. In many kitchen ranges 
there is inadequate provision for draft 
above the fire and close to it. to burn 
soft coal without resulting in clogging 
with soot. Wood may even produce 
sufficient smoke in some stoves so that 
the soot accumulates sufficiently to re¬ 
duce the inside diameter of the pipe, 
particularly if it has considerable hori¬ 
zontal length, and thus cut down the 
draft sufficiently to produce smoking. 
As soon as smoking begins the con¬ 
ditions exist for still more rapid clog¬ 
ging with smoke, because the reduced 
draft necessarily produces incomplete 
combustion. Anything that makes the 
draft stronger reduces the tendency to 
smoke and clogging. The angles in 
the chimney, referred to, necessarily 
weaken the draft, but three six-inch 
pipes entering the 10 by 12 flue, if the 
flue is not contracted at the bends by 
construction or clogging from soot and 
ashes, ought not to overload the chim¬ 
ney. It would be policy, however, to 
reduce the draft in the stove above to 
the minimum practicable when the 
ranges must be in use. It is not im¬ 
possible that an extension on the top of 
the chimney, amounting to 8 or 10 feet, 
in the form of 11 or 12-inch galvanized 
iron pipe might increase the draft suf¬ 
ficiently materially to reduce the diffi¬ 
culty. 
The point to remember is that there 
must be sufficient oxygen passing through 
the stove where the fuel is being burned 
to more than consume the volatile pro¬ 
ducts while they are yet hot enough to 
ignite. The case here is exactly like 
the lamp; if sufficient air does not 
enter through the chimney to produce 
complete combustion, smoking always 
results which, in the stove, means clog¬ 
ging. There is only one way of free¬ 
ing the chimney itself from soot, in 
this ease, with the three offsets in the 
flue, and that is to burn it out, and 
this may not be a safe course to take, 
especially if the amount of soot ac¬ 
cumulated should be large. Where the 
chimney is straight it is easily cleaned 
by looping a heavy chain and drawing 
it up and down the walls of the flue in¬ 
side by means of a cord, working from 
the top. Tf it can be seen that the 
diameter of the chimney flue is not ma¬ 
terially decreased by the black coating 
referred to this cannot be the cause of 
the difficulty. If insufficient draft re¬ 
sulting from the chimney itself is the 
cause of smoking and clogging, closing 
one range and the stove above tightly 
ought to permit the other stove to burn 
without smoke, or to give less trouble. 
If under these conditions the trouble 
persists it lies in the stove itself or the 
fuel. It is not impossible that in the 
process of construction carelessness on 
the part of the masons allowed suffi¬ 
cient mortar to drop and accumulate in 
one or more of the bends to reduce the 
cross-section sufficiently to make the 
draft imperfect. Unless special thought 
was given to the matter it is quite 
likely that a reduced cross-section of 
the flue was produced at each of the 
turns. Such mistakes are very com¬ 
mon with mechanics, who give little 
thought to the importance of having the 
cross-section of the flue uniform in size, 
that is with no constrictions. 
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When this emulsion of "One for Afi " is 
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grease, This filmof poison will remain along 
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the coming of any insect. 
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If sprayed in sufficiently heavy mixture, 
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ban .Tose Scale cannot spread or fix itself 
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Wool-fat Is the natural grease washed out 
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The two remarkable things about wool-fat 
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It is the stickiest grease in nature. And it is 
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water without the use of an alkali. 
These two peculiarities of wool-fat make 
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mixture known. 
Cannot Burn 
Foliage or Fruit 
■‘Burning” cannot possibly result from 
Spraying with "One For ail." The poison 
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"One For ail" costs 5 to 8 cents a pound. 
12 pounds make 50 gallons of spray guar¬ 
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We recommend 6 pounds to 50 gallons of 
water for spraying on foliage or fruit. Trees 
sprayed any t ime before foliage appears with 
24 pounds of "One For ail" to 50 gallons of 
water, become practically immune to insect 
attack, because there will be left on the 
trees a sufficiently heavy coat of poisonous 
grease to remain a repellent throughout the 
seasons. 
A hand of "One For ail " without water, 
encircling the tree will prevent the passing 
of any creeping insect. And from this band, 
at every rain, a poisonous emulsion will How 
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