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54 THE RURAL VOICE
ADVICE
water during cold weather. One of the
quickest ways to decrease milk produc-
tion is to shut off a cow's water supply
(milk contains about 87 per cent water).
Frozen water pipes and waterers or in-
frequent watering often show up as re-
duced milk production.
There seems to be no advantage to
heating water much above freezing tem-
peratures. But a big drink of cold water
may lower the temperature in a cow's
rumen for a few hours, enough to reduce
digestion. So the heat produced during
the normal fermentation of feeds may be
reduced for a while.0
TIPS ON HEATING
HOUSE WITH WOOD
Interest in residential heating with
wood is expanding. So is the market for
wood -burning equipment. But before
you make the switch to wood, you
should know something about the dif-
ferent wood -burning appliances on the
market.
There are two general categories of
wood -burning appliances: stoves and
furnaces.
A radiant stove (as its name implies)
radiates heat in all directions. Heat is
passed to the air and to heat -absorbing
surfaces.
The hot surface of a circulating
stove, by contrast, is encased in a metal
jacket. Air circulates through air vents
in this metal shell via convection or a
fan.
When considering the quality of
wood -heating stoves, choose a model
that is airtight. Airtight stoves maxi-
mize efficiency by controlling the
amount and location of air entry into the
firebox, thus regulating the rate at which
the fire burns.
There are also different types of
wood furnaces.
Forced -air furnaces consist of a fire-
box and a heat exchanger. The flue
gases leave the firebox and flow through
the heat exchanger, where air is heated
and circulated through the house via
sheet metal heating ducts.
Another alternative is to heat your
home with wood -fired boilers. Boilers
are connected to pipes and radiators so
that heat is distributed to several rooms
by means of hot water. (cont'd)