Show TO BURN RN was WASTE rc yi ti ii HAW w an ingenious brooklyn Dro oklyn man ilas II 11 n devised a simple ile thod of asiz weeds in a eshop jast just opposite the entrance ce to the fulton lul ton ferry can be been seen a unique invention in which at number of well known P are interested it Is the straw burning store invented by mr air G 13 field which he claims tx destined to revel revolutionize u the fuel question in the far ar west ants As ta generally understood one of the great hardships of the winter in the west Is the I 1 lack of fuel of any kind and the great expense I 1 of bringing it from the abundance of 0 other sections of the country another difficulty lj L bahat j what 0 to do with 4 J te wa aie ara straw kl ard weeds ea a farm 31 mr field contends that it he has hits solved both problems problem s or rather that ho he can make e the last solve e the former his process Is very simple ople gir and as he gave a practical dimou cm on ration Bt of it to a reporter it c certainly arta in 1 be beems ems to carry out all he claims for it i every tanner farmer has a lot of 0 waste straw grass and weeds that Is useless for fuel if burned in the ordinary way but sir fields way Is not the ordinary way it is av a very e ry easy way when you see how he docs does it 1 l like ike the famous standing egg of the genoese discoverer lie ile takes any kind of hay bay ar grass noss weeds or straw the ordinary day farm refuse and cuts it up in a common hay cutter then he puts it in what ha he calls a retort a sheet iron cylinder about the size of the everyday ashgan that nils fills our streets when the carts go round A retort holds eighteen or twenty pounds of 0 the cut straw pressed down and packed tightly there is an ordinary stove grate at the bottom of the retort and before ho he begins to pack in III the cut straw mr field puts in the center a round stick about four inches in diameter this is the little joker of 0 the whole scheme when the retort la is full he pulls the stick out and of course it leaves abole ahole a hole through the center of the mass the consequence is very important it makes a central draft for his combustion when ha he sets the straw on fire and every one who uses one of the central draft limps can appreciate pre preci clate ate the benefit of this intense beat heat and fire now having packed hi his weeds into the retort he next puts into what is an ordinary stove except that in place of a fire box and grate such as its we find in the coal burning kind he has a comp compartment artmont large enough to hold the retort which is about twenty eight inches high and eighteen inches in diameter this is like a big oven and closes with a door which takes up one end of the stove theother the other end is divided into two ovens on one 6 for baking the other tor for heating beating the top of the stove does kot differ from the 0 ordinary kind being divided up tip into six pot holes with the usual lids having p put u t 1 in the retort full of the cut weeds he lie ope opens ns a little door at the bottom of the stove applies a match and the ire la Is made the hole in the middle of the packed mass makes a central draft alre that in a few mom ants generates carbonic and nitrogen gases which igniting make an intense heat beat the straw burns slowly from the bottom up the twenty pounds of weeda lasting about four hours and giving a tire that will cook heat boil boll broil or do anything that an ordinary stove will doand at a cost that is only tile collection of the waste about the farm the reporter saw one of them bum for two hours and the contents were then not half consumed it was a most interesting operation everyone every one knows how difficult it Is to make straw or weeds burn bum in the ordinary way even to merely destroy them here they are not only reduced to fine ashes but made to serve all the needs of the farmer for fuel cooking or other do me bestic purposes ses there is no complicated machinery no elaborate process of preparation you merely as it were put a lot of straw or weeds into an iron ashcan ashgan place it in another other square iron box and your 1 stove and fire are ready brooklen Bro brooklyn oklEa eagle |