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Peat and its Products. 
ments in drainage and agriculture. By J. A. Clarke. Sm. 8vo. London. 
1851 . 
Facts about Peat as an Article of Fuel, with remarks upon its origin and 
composition, the localities in which it is found, the methods of preparation 
and manufacture, and the various uses to which it is applicable ; together 
with many other matters of practical and scientific interest. To. which is 
added a chapter on the Utilisation of Coal Dust with Peat for the produc- 
tion of an excellent fuel at moderate cost, specially adapted for steam service. 
By T. H. Leavitt. 3rd edition. Boston: Lea & Shepard. 1867. 
On the Economical Production of Peat and Peat Charcoal, with incidental 
reference to the processes pursued at the Redmoss Works (Peat-engineering 
and Sewage-filtration Company, Limited), Horwich, near Bolton, Lanca- 
shire. 8vo., pp. 24. Liverpool. 1871. 
Report on the Utilisation of Peat and Peat Lands. By F. A. Paget. 
Reports on the Vienna Universal Exhibition of 1873. Part ii., pp. 269-346. 
1875. 
Transactions of the Newbury District Field Club, vol. ii., 1878; Dr. S. 
Palmer on the Antiquities found in the Peat of Newbury, pp. 123, &c., and 
Appendix by Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S. ; reprints of Dr. Collet’s and 
Dean Buckland’s descriptions of the Peat Formation in the Valley of the 
Kennet, and various notes on the Newbury Peat, pp. 135, 138, 141, &c. 
For previous references to the subject of Peat in this Journal the reader 
should consult the General Index to the First Series (I860), p. 139, and 
the General Index to the Second Series (1890), p. 156. 
The value of straw as food, particularly in trying winters, 
furnishes a strong argument in favour of utilising good straw 
in the feeding-trough, rather than of permitting it to find its 
way, in the form of litter, to the muck-heap. The relative merits 
of straw and peat moss for purposes of litter must, however, 
be settled in the long run, partly by local considerations, and 
partly, no doubt, by cost to the consumer. 
W. Fream. 
