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CATALOG FREE-DEPT. 12. LA CBESCENlT 
Farm Mechanics 
Why the Kitchen Stove Wouldn’t Draw 
“Every time I lift a stove liil some 
smoke comes out iu my face,” Milly an¬ 
nounced one day when I came home to 
dinner. “Our nice clean walls are get¬ 
ting sooty,” she continued. “The stove 
doesn't draw the way it ought to, any¬ 
how, and I have trouble getting the oven 
hot enough to hake.” 
“Too bad,” said I, as sympathetically as 
a hungry man Could. “In the morning I’ll 
get Hopkins over here and have him look 
at it. lie stopped the smoking iu our fire¬ 
place, you know, and I guess a mere stove 
won’t puzzle him much.” 
Next morning Hopkins came and spent 
a half-hour prying into the stove and into 
to the left. Both your neighbors have 
houses a little higher than yours, and 
this leaves your own chimney in a slight 
depression between the adjoining houses. 
The prevailing winds come from the one 
side or the other, are deflected clean over 
your chimney, causing eddies and back 
pressure that kill your draft." 
"And the remedy?” I hinted. 
“Build the chimney about three feet 
higher.” 
*‘How much will it cost?” 
“Ten dollars.” 
“Ho ahead and do it.” Which he did. 
And now Milly no longer complains about 
her stove not drawing. 
On the farm, buildings are not often so 
close together as shown on the accom¬ 
panying plan. However, high trees or 
other natural obstructions might cause the 
same trouble to the draft of a neighbor¬ 
the chimney. He got his white goatee so 
sooty that I wondered whether his wife 
would let him in the house when lie went 
home. But lie didn’t mind soot—Tie was 
after bigger game, like a good dog on a 
fresh trail. I just stood around and 
watched him. 
“Stove flues are all light,” he said, 
after a careful examination. “Some folks 
let ’em stop up with soot, but these are 
clean. Trouble isn't there.” 
Next he took down the stove pipe and 
announced that it. too, was clean. (I could 
have told him that, for I cleaned it my¬ 
self two weeks ago.) 
“How about soot in the chimney?” I 
asked. 
He answered by taking a small mirror 
out of his pocket. Standing on a step- 
ladder he inserted the mirror in the chim¬ 
ney pipe hole iu such a way and at such 
an angle that he could plainly see the re¬ 
flection of the flue way up to the top. Iu 
the operation his goatee became one shade 
blacker, though he said there was “very 
little soot” in the chimney. 
“It’s the only good way to see the in¬ 
side of a chimney,” he explained iu reply 
to my question. “If you go on the roof 
and try to look down, you see nothing but 
blackness, whereas when you look up you 
have the light above to help you see.” 
“But couldn’t you have a caudle at the 
bottom to help you when you look down?” 
I asked. 
“You could, but the chimney draft 
would put out your caudle mighty quick. 
An electric light bulb would be all right, 
but such a convenience is not often at 
hand. Besides, the mirror idea saves me 
the job oof climbing on the roof." 
His next step was to insert the stove¬ 
pipe iu the hole to see how well it lifted. 
"Last flue I examined,” he remarked, 
“was faulty because of a. badly fitting 
pipe. You see, if there’s a big air space 
around the pipe where it goes into the 
chimney, the air rushes in and acts like 
u check to the draft.” 
“Won’t the pipe collar stop up such air 
spaces?” 
"Yes, to a certain extent. The trouble 
is, however, that most pipe collars grad¬ 
ually slip down and thus expose the open¬ 
ing. If they were nailed into place they’d 
stay, but most folks are too careless to do 
it. And even when nailed in place the 
collar often fits so loosely or so unevenly 
around the pipe that too much air gets 
through, causing the draft to be more or 
less poor. 
“Your pipe fits snugly.” he continued, 
“so the trouble must be elsewhere. Now, 
let’s go down cellar.” 
We went, and he prowled around like a 
congressional investigating committee. 
“All right down here,” he at last ad¬ 
mitted. “No open places iu the chimney 
base. No other openings into this same 
flue. Many drafts are spoiled, you know, 
by openings below or above, or by run¬ 
ning several stove pipes into the same 
flue. Do any pipes go into this flue above 
the kitchen pipe?” 
“No. Nothing but an attic up there— 
never used.” 
I thought he was now completely stump¬ 
ed, hut he wasn’t. In fact, he and his 
dingy goatee were already pointed toward 
the cellar door. “We’ll go outdoors,” he 
said, and I followed meekly. 
He made a bee line for the front of the 
lot and thence across the street. There 
he stopped and turned around till lie faced 
my bungalow. His goatee waved gently 
in the breeze, and his eager eyes searched 
the air above my roof—yes. and above my 
neighbors’ roofs. 
“There it is!” he cried trimphantly. 
“There’s your trouble, as plain as plain 
can be.” 
I looked, but couldn’t sed any trouble. 
“Look to the right.” lie advised. “Then 
ing chimney. The remedy would be the 
same in either case. 
WALTER E. ANDREWS. 
Poor Drafts in Chimneys 
This may be caused by any one of a 
dozen different things. An intake of cold 
air is fatal to draft. E. R. of Penn¬ 
sylvania should make airtight the spaces 
about, boiler holes. See that ash doors 
are kept closed, other funnel holes closed 
tight, and stoves not in use have dampers 
closed. I have found chimneys full of 
soot up to and partly filling funnel hole. 
In my house L have made three new fun¬ 
nel holes and carried funnel up several 
feet before entering chiinuey, which 
helped the draft. I have also made a 
new and taller chimney ; have had cracks 
in chimney pointed with cement when 
the salt east wind had worked ou the 
mortar. I have rattled a chain up and 
down in the chimney from the top. A 
teuaut of mine burnt soggy wood, and at 
the same time closed the funnel dumpers, 
smoking the ceilings. Sometimes the 
shape of the roof or the proximity of a 
tree or a higher building causes trouble. 
In another case the funnel was pushed 
into the chimney against the back of the 
chimney. c. G. 
New Hampshire. 
Improving Flue and Cellar Wall 
On page 1823, E. R.. Pennsylvania, 
complains of trouble with stovepipe and 
flue. lie says that there are openings 
in flue intended for the use of other 
stoves, kettles, etc. All openings within 
this flue must be closed up tight, and if 
the flue is properly built this should rem¬ 
edy the trouble; but if the trouble still 
continues when the wind blows from the 
east, as stated, it is evident that thei*e 
is some object near that causes the wind 
to interfere with the draft of the flue, 
which should be removed or overcome by 
whatever means may he necessary, lie 
also speaks of break iu cellar wall. To 
remedy this so construct drain pipe, etc., 
as to drain all surface or all other water 
away from the wall, tear out all loose 
parts of the wall, or enough of the wall 
where it is broken to enable the mason 
to rebuild this part, thereby closing up 
the break that is now iu the wall. 
Pennsylvania. J. m. 
Handy Door Fastening 
I like the lock shown in accompanying 
picture for farm buildings. It is an arm 
of 2x4 size. 30 iu. long, with one end bev¬ 
eled off to tit the door, and raised off the 
door by a bridge lLj-in. or so thick. A 
Hand)/ Door Fastening for Farm 
Buildings 
weight hangs on a staple by a chain, and 
by wrapping the chain once around a 
very safe fastening can be made. By in¬ 
creasing the heft of the weight one cau 
push it open from the inside. The handle 
is great to open and shut the door. 
Nova Scotia. joiix buciianan. 
“I wish they’d stop saying prices will 
go down.” said tin* thrifty woman. "It’s 
well meant.” “No doubt. But every 
time the announcement is made ir seems 
to scare all the people I deal with into 
making hay while the sun shines.”—'Mel¬ 
bourne Leader. 
