An Improved Coal Bin.
The ordinary coal bin, with its little eliding door at tho bottom, is a source of no little annoyance and dirt. It is almost impossible to keep moro coal fromooming out than is desired, tho overflow usually spreading itself out upon tho floor. Then, when the coal gets low, ono must take a hoe and try to draw out through the small outlet the coal that is piled up in the cor-
A CONVENIENT COAL BIN. Hers of the bin, a baok aching and annoying job. A bin with a floor sloping to the outlet is convenient, but takes time and considerable labor to build. The cut of a bin to obviate all these troubles is given by The Rural New Yorker, whioh says It Is cleanly, convenient and easily mado. It is rectangular and has no small dcor. Instead tho boarding between two studs is arranged to open as a series of small dcors. The upper one is opened first and the coal shoveled off into the hod. Thon tho nest door, and so on. When the bottom is reached, one can enter tho bin through the opening thus made and shovel up the coal as needed, with no spreading of the coal over the floor.
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Manawatu Herald, 25 July 1896, Page 4
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211An Improved Coal Bin. Manawatu Herald, 25 July 1896, Page 4
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