Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — The Straw Stove. [ARTICLE]

The Straw Stove.

The straw stove will enable its possessor to dispense with the necessity of purchasing fuel where hay or straw are plentiful. The device can be made by any tinsmith. It consists of a drum two feet in diameter approximately, four feet or more high, with one end covered, made of sheet iron, such as is used in stove pipe; a stand upon which to place the drum, simply and inexpensively made; the top of sheet iron with rim to hold drum in place; legs of hoop iron riveted; a cone-shaped top, joining and sliding into the stovepipe sufficiently to allow of removal of the drum for the purpose of emptying and replenishing. The draught is a hole at the lower end of the drum, with a slide cover or riveted piece so placed as to allow of being drawn over the draught. Fill with straw or hay or any material of like nature and stait the fire at the top. One filling will burn about six hours. The discovery of this was a Godsend and averted much suffering.—[Seattle Post Intelligencer.