Village Squire, 1978-12, Page 41heat to increase sufficiently to make it
bearable to get out from between the warm
blankets and get into cold clothes.
It's little wonder then that one of the first
improvements made to farm homes.
shortly after indoor bathrooms, was the
installation of the modern oil furnace and
the banis f the woodstove to the
woods ed where a few months later the
scrap dealer picked it up and broke it
down. Ten years ago you couldn't sell a
stove for love or money. By five years ago
however. stoves were coming back into
style slightly to the point where one local
merchant was complaining about how hard
it was to get old stoves and bemoaning the
fact he'd thrown out many a stove in years
gone by.
The big storm of 1971 probably had a lot
to do with making people in this part of the
country remember the woodstove with a
little more fondness. It was far more
relaxing to live through the storm secure in
the knowledgeihat there is a woodshed full
of dry wood than to worry about which will
end first. the storm or your heat.
The energy crisis added a little more fuel
to the fire, so to speak and the
never-ending price increases for fuel oil
and gas have made wood look like a good
alternative after all.
The result is that this fall has seen a
barage of advertisements in your local
weekly newspapers for various kinds of
mod stoves. A few have been familiar, the
pot bellied stove. the reliable old box stove
andeven the Franklin. but most bear about
as much resemblance to the stoves we used
to know as a modern car to the model T
Ford. The comparison goes deeper too.
The old• familiar stoves were simple in
design. They were basically a box with
holes to put the wood in. holes to let air in.
holes to let the smoke out and holes to get
ashes out. Btit rhodern technology has
been applied to the wood stove and today
a vii ole new breed has come along.
Remember how it seemed every time
you turned around the stove needed wood?
Remember all those cold mornings trying
to liglit the fire? If you do then the claims of
soar of the advertisements in today's
nev.spaper must take you a little skeptical.
"Burns 12 hours on one load." "burns 15
hours." "burns 16 hours", the ads say. To
the oldtimer. it sounds impossible.
But those who use the stoves claim it is
true. Sonic claim they have even gotten 24
hours of good warmth from a single tilling
of the stove. The freezing floor in the
morning is gone. proponents of the new
stoves say. You get up in the morning to
warm floors. rake the ashes slightly. throw
in new wood and soon have a roaring fire
again. You fill the stove in the morning.
again in the afternoon and then before
bedtime and that's all there is to keeping
v.arm. The average owner of one of these
110 stoves can be nearly guaranteed six
hours of constant warmth with .the 12-14
hours easily possible with the use of proper
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