Show I MILLS FUEL WASTED B BURN COAL AND DO NOT O COOK IT T C P m ace cean H By NEA Sen Serice Ser ico W WASHINGTON Battling Kid Winter who vho has been In for some months Is getting ready to step forth and knock tho the public for Cor a long lone series of big bic fuel bills I Prepare then to circum nt ent tho thoI I kid by getting more heat out of less coal or gas cas 01 or whatever else IOU ou use us to keep warm Samuel Samuil S W V V er Cr associate In min rain minerai mineral oral eral technology or of o the Smithsonian has just Issued d a pam pain pamphlet pamphlet phiet givIng the tho exact procedure for the tire most economical and effi- effi efficient dent use or of Coal coke gas and oil In home It If correct methods nero ere understood and applied throughout the tho country he con con- contends con contends tends tho the same samo heating sert seM Ice Ico could be obtained with one one half one half the tho ru fuel 1 and there would result a 0 aa saing of easily orth orth ortho or o fuel uel a day Simultaneous with ith th the of Mr Wyer's pamphlet Rudolph nUdolph Kudlich a 11 fuel engineer of cr the tho th U 11 US S Bureau Dureau of or Mines today gives some timely ly suggestions on the tho ther gentle genUe art or of firing the furnace Hero In substance Is his hi advice to coal users COOKING CO COL L By W burning coal Instead or of cooking It It you can save savo 25 per percent percent percent I cent of Sour our fuel bills Too many persons person make mak the I II mistake of covering the entire Ire fire bed each tm tnie they add coal cal When this happens most o of of the th gases eases are cooked out and escape up the chimney without being burned The Th best method Is to apply a 0 heap of ot fuel on ono one on sl side sido le of or the and then when this has burned down don doy n throw the th next nelt heap on the th side tide This Inc trig InG alternatInG method alwa exposes a II bed of live IIvo coal coals to Ignite thee the gases A big biff fire burning slowly Is cheaper In the tho long loner run than a- a alit a tl tie fire t re burning fast Fam burning means Incomplete combustion and hence more mor waste In the ashes Regulate your Ire fire tir by the damp damp- damper damper er and tle tl th e pit ash-pit door Instead of oby by the tho th fuel door Every pound of o cess e air taken in above the tho fire cools the tho just that much Keep your furnace Its clean clean Its It's mus- mus mussy mussy sy mus-sy sy work ork but it pass pais pa s Keep the heating pipes well cover covered d FUEL FUrr POWDER R That proper methods will nih save sav a surprising amount of coal was demonstrated to fuel engineers not long ago during their Jm ot of a 0 fuel powder PO dor that had ap- ap appeared ap appeared on the th market This when sprinkled In the th furnace under very careful and detailed directions was supposed to bring brine about a tremendous tremendous tremendous dous It did But the th stuff analyzed more than 90 SO per pr cent common salt and Juts enough pel of potash to gh tho gio 0 tho the flames a pret- pret pretty pret pretty ty red hue hu The Tho printed directions for lor application though were about the tho best set of furnace Instructions ever demised They wore so good that they performed just as effi effi- efficiently effi- effi efficiently without the th powder as with It it In them th m lay the th secret of eav- eav lies lav-lies I Subsequent articles will wm deal Mr 11 Wyer's rules rule for tor burning coke coal coat and other fuel i |