Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1914 — Running Furnaces. [ARTICLE]

Running Furnaces.

A furnace authority says: “In mild weather it is not necessary to ‘shake down’ the furnace fire. You can economize on fuel and still have a Are ready to start full blast should the north wind begin to blow. With the furnace poker rake down only part of the ashes, forming a sort of crater by poking out ‘the ashes thoroughly from the bottom and the fop. Into this ‘crater’ put the fresh c»<al. This is really a sort of furnace within the larger one and holds the fir? without using coal to heat the whole, furnace. When the cold snap comes ehake the grate thoroughly, shovel on fresh coal and open the drafts.”