Peat and its Products. 
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Moss litter has been most effectively tried at the stables of 
the Copenhagen Milk Supply Company. The system under 
which it is there used is the following : — 
Each stall is constructed with a hollow lined with cement 3 inches 
deep below the level of the floor paving. This is filled with the litter. 
About an inch in depth is removed daily from the surface, the fresh supply 
being laid at the manger end, while the supply of the day before is raked 
from the head to the hinder end. The litter so removed forms most excel- 
lent manure. 
The peat-moss litter is delivered in compressed bales of 150 lb. each, 
and care has to be taken that it is almost free from moisture, in order that 
it may be able better to absorb all moisture when in use. 
The Company referred to keep fifty horses. Though it is customary in 
Denmark to bestow but little trouble upon grooming horses and keeping 
stables clean, and though there is no drain whatever in the stable in question, 
no trace of ammonia .and hardly any unpleasant smell can be detected. 
The manager states that the litter for the fifty horses costs the 
Company 100/. a year, or 2/. per horse per annum. 
Sir Francis Denys adds that the value of moss litter for sanitary 
and economical purposes, iu large towns and for cavalry 
barracks, cannot be over-estimated, and since the same quality 
of peat exists in Great Britain, this industry should certainly be 
capable of great development at home. The peat used is that 
lying immediately between the sod and the black peat employed 
as fuel. 
France. — The Bordeaux Tramway Company, which tried the 
experiment of peat moss for litter, has now abandoned the use 
of it, partly because of the difficulty of disposing of the manure, 
and partly because the litter, which was sold to them by weight, 
was frequently supplied in a damp condition, which considerably 
reduced its utility. 
In Paris there are four or five firms which supply peat for 
fuel. There is, in addition, an important enterprise, the 
Company known as “ La Beraudine,” founded by M. Beraud for 
working his patents, and manufacturing a number of articles 
from peat fibre. 
This Company supplies about eight different articles to the 
French Government, chiefly mattresses, blankets, saddle-cloths, 
&c., but the number of articles manufactured from the fibre 
obtained by M. Beraud’s process is very great, and comprises 
nearly all those in which felt has hitherto been used, with this 
important difference, that the articles are made from a woven 
fabric, and not from a brittle substance like felt. 
The Company is about to set up a factory for utilising the 
refuse material in the production of peat fuel or charcoal, which, 
it is stated, can be produced at about 50 per cent, less cost than 
the “ briquettes ” now in use made from coal-dust, &c. 
