Dry Vs. Green Fuel

Ureon woud unu wet wood wül ncver produce a bpil of ijlowing eoals like dry maplo and hickorv. When dry basswood, beech, homlock, und many other varietics of ti::iber are employed for {hof, the fire will not einit luuch heat, excopt wlicn tho flame risos, wbile dry mapleand hiekory, cut and split into sinall billets soon aftor the trees aro fitlled, and allowed to Masón, will malte a largo bed of eoals, whioh wil! keep a hot fire fora long time, almoet like borning charcoal. Ome cord ot iiard WoofT, split and piled undcr un airy shelter wh'ii the timl.er is green, will givc more heat and eomfort than omand a half corda of sap-sjaked, half dozy and half-dry fuel. There is graat eeonouiy in cutting and Bplitting fuel when it is green, and pilin; it imder shelter six oreight months before il is tobs btrhed. For use in warm" wVat lier, there is great economy in eutting fuel short, say not more than six or oight inuhes long. By eutting it short, and splitting ttio billets small, one eau make a little flre, sutti cient to boil a few eggs and the tea-kettle, with less than oue-third the quantity ;!:;:t v.tiuld be MmM lbo . billuts wero out of tlio umJI lonptU, say twciity to twenty-four incfaes long. Fuel for next winter's use .sliould be sa wed, split fine, racked tip undT an open sbed, aiid be allowed to dry at least six months boi'orc it is used. It is a niisernble practiee to allow iirewood to be exposed to altérnate rain and sunshino during the sumaier isonths.