The New-York Tribune Newspaper, August 8, 1866, Page 7

Y PR - Y ALAZINANIRZIA 1, MAUWUIIL O, LOUU. ~ e B Tt )y used for fuel in the limo-kilns. To | nor does it drop conls to burn bridges; and it never an- rrive when, even in Mane, wood | noys passengers with smoke, emell or cinders; and as the d the neglectod peat bogs be resorted | grite bars aro always clean, the engincer will never say to or, * Lean't wake stoam.” Wo speak from wethods A man wi — in smeliing iron ores with peat alone; and there, a8 whore olse, thero is bat one opinion ‘mon; the .Ix llf{'nt metallurgists, that all that was poet & afacl for iron working was density. ‘Tais bas beea supe whealbarrow ta =d v ho ndvantageor bhocome scnrer, to for fiel. 1Fits superiority us fuel over both wood and | the cou e S ws known and od, the peat bogs would be | knowle n we say that there is no better fuel known phodb{ Yankoe ingenuity without increasing the cost of y 5 5 3 | witl till wood is exbausted,’| to generate steam than condensed peat, It would answer | tho fuel. And it is o cortain which we can foa 1ts History, Location, Formation, and | {rawn upon.” un’ adriirble purpose for * dummy engines” npon city nzrmum.m, that M,t’dufi com ’ P | NLW-HAMPSTIRE PEAT, railrogds; and nothiug would be better than peat for the | dei peat is intense, We do not beliove it wi Character. 0 10 stack or bouse ok, and it has ofton beou | T Tlainpeiive, wooded a3 it is, tho people are be- | fucl of fire engines. Lt could bo saturated with petrolewn | necossary to convert it dnto Mw-mm’ 0 tuns. sed for fuel afior two weeks of dryi t | ginut ken to the sitance of looking to some | to make it more iustautly indammable for the first fire, double intensity is required, 1008, « whoro the spreading-ground is limited, 1 | otber source fur a supply of fusl; und steps have been ta- On the £d day of June, 1866, an experiment was made Prof. Emmons, Geslogist of New-York e thns, housed o8 fust ug possible. An nore of surfac | ken to manufacture peat. It has already been used toa | upon the Harttord, Conneeticut and Springfield Road, | recommends peat chazeoal to iron man O A i comnodate ubout 2 tuns of the blocks as they come from 3 which has awakened a very deep interest upon the subject | it is fully equal to that made from the best t seetion, beeause it made kuown some facts o ate, 804 proved of excellent [ For pisking gt for lluminating purposes, pest has beew roved superior to coal, and mor economioake £¥55 fonnd o contain a rich su of tha carboniferous ol of which our eommon §llumij phnad‘l..:lh” po; o - £2.0% to 24.000 tuss. t L. A tun of wet peat a3 it comes » taken from the bog, is estimated | pile closely, will weserre 40 cubic foe aud 160 cubie foot are required to make ono tun {“-_,‘. foct of wot peat to make ure, if packed closely, about 35 cubic i is fonnd in of pest in ] oui the bog, if requires 169 fuc), which will pw-Famp- jaces whero 1t will be dug and | upou important questions of economy worihy of the atten- are equal in number to the | tion of the public, as it tended to ‘show that we hay ¢ needs an swokeuing among | vast store of uatural wealth as yet unknown, because un- future tin cts, and it on 1o in each of these districts to make khown to | developed. It proved that peat, which caa e obtained | nounced equal in !hl!rurefi und for + huvo au Inexhaustable supply of fuel whero | right along the lines of railroads in Connectiowt, dried in | coal, ‘Lho yield of cubie mhfifln the forests hiuve disappeared. thie old way, and burned in locomotives not specially pre- | illmination was found far greater ia the | | ith | - PEAT I¥ VRMONT. pred for such fuel, 18 capable of produeing aa mach steam | ments that have been tried in various r\-— , ox ehile | In Vermont, peat is equally abundant, as the gaologieal | and traction power frou one tun and o Guarter as ean be | In Paris, the test was selentifically conducted, al | | | \ one tun of dry foel. n Chisreoir] ean only be made of peat natarally very solid, When the weather is favoruble, the peat that i [ or male go by manafucture. ‘Then it makes & oharcoal of | Monday may be turned Wodnceduy, ¢ ok which is far guperior to the best wood char- | toria for this operation,w hich corsists of lif coal, pos & o calorific power groster then the best | and setting them on end, four ot five leaning coke. © Bolidilied pest yiclds 35 to 42 per cent. | oneon top. ‘Ihis work may bo done by wou of its weight in chareonl, Such peat will sink in | dren; but, s a general thing, the mill Tuns ahoad of the | water, and, if exposed to the weather, absorl spreading-ground, and gives the ordinary laborers timoe to 1t has been found in A natoral « 8 do the huking, stacking or housing know why hing nfactori | slowly. . ¥ Poat Glao o, end Tan es of firm (0 be worked into snufl-boxes, snd other trinkets. this term heke is applied to this part of the work upoi ut out T4o Value and Use of Peat in its Nataral and Manufactured State, B rvey of Professors Hitehcock and Hager have fuily dem- | obtaiued from one tun of coal. T'he Hartford Times says | the same rosult, Iostead of tar, as in coal They say there i3 not & tow in the State that | the sctunl cost of preparing the peat el is not over | being obtained, the ise dark oil, h:( ;«ls-“..,n of ‘peat stored up for future use. The | $1 50 & tun, and that co costs $7to $8a tan, That is the ume'ur further distillation fi»rm :‘ is 1 i A NEW ° UTILIZATION CF Bus-muns.j all s also dovoted much sttention to the | ceonomy of the thing. Upon this trial the engine buroed | easier punfied thaz s‘-’dh-:- zx-l.uu that ges mado from develo Frel Described. CONDENSING PEAT—HOW IT 18 DONE—IOW MUCH IT | Poat, unlossit c from the dictionary defipition, * to nent of this important truth, I not now imports | 1,400 pounds of peat upon tho round trip—G2 wiles—avd | odor. 'ft has beon . D RO L e i AT LEXING- | Mnrek, 1o loitery 0 g0 abou by, as it appears tobowork | uat,ture o bo i fow yoars more; for,sincoout recun | Binde D exirocs thires without any sttempt o forco the | Laud, requires 5o purfying. suited to such diepositions. Foi those who dig, hwul, feed, | brasice the most dengely wooded portion of the State have | 8peed, ¢ Ticre was but little ‘smoke, aud that 1ot | Prof. Emmons recommonds poat for gas, aod so ded TN, MASSACHSKTTS, DESCRIBED. tend molds, or esrry off end spread the peat, first visited the works of the * American Peat Com- | s o oo 'for any one {0 loiter. The Taaekine B } ::::-,llxl1'l\f»xmpl4-!l Iy !"Vipw‘l‘f"" .!;.. \'n,.c «%mm .m}fl" offensive.” 'l)r. lcvn; Fenchtwanger, who is well knows 1 this couss H s ! sultant product of v ig oL ane + | 3 NOW an expensive artic 'cat in Vermont is not A BED EIGHTY FEET DEEP, 1y, notwithstanding hia very foseign name. e, ihongh we o et ot f | by o G ad st b wiended by one e, | o ooy 4 ad v o rvaua, M. Al | Ty b b Bery owaod b7 the st | e A" A Hayos, Borton, ays. - Thers are only two @ densing Operation was 100 expeusive. ‘e process is willing e el L k% baxin #ton. namies some of the highest towns in the State where it is | and New-Haven Railioad, eighty feet deep. Think of the | thice caunel coal beds known, which afford so much tonducted undor Betteloy's patents, who was present, and THE COST OF MAKING CONDENSED PEAT FUEL, AND found; and ol the railronds cross beds of it, which would | iinmense amonnt of fuel in such’a mass. Consider tho | minatin waterial us peat. It exceeds ell common auxious to afford our compauy all the facilities posaible, to COBT OF VIXTURFS. furnish thew with far cheaper fuel than wood or coal. | probabilities that the development of such stores of fuel, | coa!, and is far sbove ordinary bituminous cosl. At the peat works of the Boston Company, ot Lexing- | Some of theso deposits wre 5o old nd deep that foseil elo- | will reduce tho cost of coal, where trunsportation 1z the An experiment made by the Pordand, Moe., ges compang Wrhore Peat is to be Found, and How to Find It. o obtain correct information. He gavo the cost of di : ON des , and gotting the peat roady for market o tou, we Judge more money Las been expended in build- | phiants bave beou found buried severul foet below the pres- | maiu part of the price. was highly satisfa 3 A NEW TRIUMPH WON FOR ECONOMY, ::I',’;" ‘,,';,'K“‘Khn"'"mf:, 'l';f, ,nm ‘nund{n.‘l’l "..'7‘:,‘,_ ings um?fl!lun'! than wouid be npecessary in ordinary, | ent surfuce, ¥ Thepl;aulgvr!,lnr(vnlhmm interested in the railronds | At Utica, N. Y., 612 feot of good ifluminating ges was practical manufacturing _establishments, *becauso here On the summit of Mansfeld mountain, in the town of | in Connecticut, are o well assured that peat isto bo the | obtained trom 160 15 of peat. g ted 14 vor, it does its k with 9 \ 0 engine is rated 14 horso power, and it does its wor everything had to bo fried, in o great measure, experi- | Sowe, V., at an elevation of 4,318 foct abovo tide, thero | future fuel for Incomotives, that they have boughtupslarge | ypyopANps OF A’ MANUFACTURER—GOOD ADYVIOR. e o e an 100 1bs. per hour of *“ trashy peal,” working 50 tuns a day . y g . e f : of ernde peat, which makes one-fonrth that quantity of | mentally, to develop the best plan of working the Leavitt | are beds of peat and sphagnous moss, repidly incressing | portion of the Aeposits slong the Tines, and organized a . PRAT—WHAT I8 IT1 salable Ary fuel, in the form of baid, black m'\n. the objeot of the company being to determine | the quantity of fuel for future ages, peat manufacturing company, to provide condensed fuol, | Although we consider T, H. Leavitt the fatber of imw Tran , in temperate climates, comes the T'he peat is dug in ditehos, through the marsh, which s | st that they can be succesafully used for what they ore | PEAT IN MASSACHUSETTS. not only for making steam, but warmiug houscs; so we provements in peat manufaeters in Amerios, Toeommonden, and then so build and scll fhem, Joaving it | Prof. Witcheock’s report upon the geologs of thie Mtate | msy expeet to see pest s eommon in Hartford within fivo | kucccssful than aay one here.or in E"mifl that it of the A light | to others to prosccute the manufacture of fucl, o o | protty w ch 80 that only a_small port growth of moseos of the genus aphagnum, which have | Pre ty wet, 80 muc iy s, ¥ i eat - 11 d ndy draina, tho pocaliar faculty of continually growing at the top ;’..:llu:‘"n-h()‘;il"nu:‘g‘"l‘hn ‘adgMof tho ditch, au hence to | Leavitt, however, at our request, freely of whila laging at'the roots, by which basins upon very elo- | the foot of an inclined plano the cats are shed by wanal | and 8 n;:.‘-.l the ('l;lhwmp figures; nnulhfll running | g sort Cacluding the f stern cow ted ground have been filled to the depth of 20 or 30 | labor, Up the plane to an elevation of abovt 9 fret they | ouo machine one day, using, at moderate spoed, 4510 50 | from the estimate, Prof. Hitcheock gives for the remainder | theaper. g o 0 Ay = vty .;mnphv n{vim ropo and power of stonm, At u.{ tuns of erude peat: of the Stto a supply of peat equal (o an arca of 125 square | We hear that all the available peat beds in the Nangatuel “.flmw,',‘ffi,‘“ Joi s, .‘:‘&'}":‘m | miles, over six feet thick; enough to wake 121,000,000 | valley have been I»oufiht nr by & peat company, snd that | profitable management of works for ma een 1ol enumeraies o great number of loealities where peat may be | yeurs, ns coal is now. Gas companics everywhere, will be | he holds the following language upon found,snd where it will undoubledly be used {ulp‘lmd wn’hh ;mll--d 1o use peat, beeauso it not nlnl;’;aktu'n betier 1 have gone Just far onough te seo clesily ek asido com| very wiort period. Excluding tha four Western counties | £as for light, but1s furless offetsive in 1ts odor, eud much | develepiag s process, and scouimpes ¥t Thieco iswach @ basin within half & milo of our resi- | (o Uy pfuno, the eurs aro damped into_the hopper of | One man cutiiie pest in the bok peatcompan fsnce, info which a hole has been dug 10 feet decp, the | 4y'iron mill, which breaks up tho crude pest into small Doe 1aan and Loy, and (wo horse g of fucl of the most veluable kind, Not o toww in | companies have slso rued in Meriden, New-Havon, | what is of equal tnportanee, 1be most economical paat growing botter and better; and a polo kas been | frapments, combing ot any sticks, roots or sods that can- | g, Iecpss : | \he State can o named where poat does not exist; and | Waterbury, and New-London, all of which will use the | usingit. To this ead the poopl neod loformation, = nrust down 20 feet still below, indicating 8 de not be reduced 1o 8 homogencous mass, which are carried | One man tending the wo upon Cape Cod, whero wood for fuel is nearly exhausted, | Leavitt eondensing maehines, Sustand wall et gors fols shjont o LXK A i Y throngh o spout outside tho building. This waste m- | T en o emyty moids uj | tistp poat is Dund o Kbundant, sofl of moM efiiloat TRAR L8 COMEARKD. WIFR G0AL ey ow Fiown, 3 nasd Sivdly say hoil 9 have demonstrated Lt L suoh extent a4 -y“&lu]-l mosm iy, ;Lmlg!\lflm }mv]:ile {mn uwl~ yet Ic :'nml ilu ::uo : u::n the zu‘n of Juno, 1866, M. Tearitt wrot to us from t is ulso abundaut upon Nuutucket,snd othor ton, & letter from which we extract the following it: B, il would b the cheapest fucl the jubabitants | itcin, nierely to show the effect prodnoed upon the winds Jroud permit; and Wl Ehe aties bat SeemTLe 250 | coud use. They, s well as those of othor portions of the | of people by practieal trials of peat fuel: that our busioess interests oannot in any manuer be so n that black mud will burm. | * Mr. R, 8 Lowis of Rockville, Conn., was Lers yesterday | ally and permancatly promoted a# by givi usetts, I3 nosnew thing. Eline | (examinod our works avd ordered fonr machines), and states ni{.hlz claracter beariog upon the si. i tore it 50 v enrs 0z, After | that be caliod won Mr, Read, tho Superinteadont of the Hart- | onterpise, corparate fnterests, and the Suminerlike atmos- o make parsonal inquiries in | to take their natural eourse in g out er of the steamn- | Tyo'wen 10 carty burdles off upon tho drying groun L1¢ wheeled off aud pread en geass the expense is the o | siue. | One eugineer, who is bis own fire purs poat 30 foot deep. The upper stratum of ¢ | terisl, when duy, is burned under the peatbod is generally very fibrous, and affurds fuel of such | engine. Tho plistic pest from tho grinding mill is ag ® light, spongy character, that although eombustibie, is | ¢ svated to o tank 35 or 40 feet high, where it is rende R0 it o bo serviceablo where intense heatis required. | #41more homogeneous tud plastie by Ag Lation 1 10 I tiro of such poat might be compared to that of @ more | portion of its water, through gates at the bottom of the tonk, fulling upon a reve g belt, where it is cut by ing and stacking fuc el burzed aud wear wad ford and fl-rwwfiflld Railrond, woudonsad charscter, 68 brushwood cowpaes with (he L ol bl T4 [ @1id substance of the bole of the tree. b nives mto suitable sized pieces, which are placed Total..... by ohasases 00 | =Y X ¢ . - rogard to the trial of peat above alluded to, and his views ou | and makiog thew available accordiig to the v upon shet: es under o dryiog sled, or upon a porous brick x e gh) " | phire, and hests o roots beitor than o woodefire. The | (Lebioot genorally, apd that M. Read fold bim that from | ties of loontiou and demand. We are ever ready to P ryiog j P Average product of dry fuel per day, from one mill, 12 | L Kl oo ipritatiag eoet upoa tho eyes, aud docs not | iy o-f. npu;{wce!lnd obeervation, (axd it s well known | any information in our power, but we are feally in the elightest degreo obstriet respiration; aud a poat fire | {hat he has given the subject a pood deal of stiention practi- | (o obtaia it. ‘We hope wo may do so, the has none of that unplessant, drying effect felt from a coal- | eally), the thing woa reettled in bis own mind beyoud & doubt, | in THE TRIDUNE of the %m ing. wne the nshies are loes troublesome. A rod equaro of | thaf two-thirds of a tun of pest was equal to cnetun of coal | fore, n‘dg.r you the followlog if yoa bave nok e { fn soo poat-beds, 80 Jong a time has elapeed wincs the | goor in ghe sun, or else upon the grass wod, whero they | ¢l T nlo foo-way for bad wiather, duriag the ‘;-t.u,‘...m ceased that the substance bas nearly lost al! its Will dry enough o pile m’ ‘n‘f‘]o“‘;fi of good m\ hnvi ons of work, which i a8 long a9 the mawerial does pot y of 1c8, whon the peat 15 ‘of a compact quality, and n the process ‘That canses the blocka to crumb ibroos obaracter, and has the appearance siw t T s 1T taken diroctly from tho mill and Winck wud. Such is often the best peat, and i 1 s0lid rec of Sber, it s taken diroctly frum tho mill aad | of Grying, After they havo bacome thoroughly dry, if put bog, cut three feet d v three cords of dricd | for'locomolive purposes. siated Rt kit iindicm W fagu e on the ground to dry, and afterward cut up in | 5 ey Thatehed. they eadure Gepovnre | EoT, VoK COt e e e et ears snd pabad n'|’, N think T tuad is exact words, and. being a cnse | Perhaps wahavo; stil, a3 the articleis ¢ - * without any preparation. We have befor Fhis process is mote expeditious, as the peat i% ’ plida. | s o, ot ia housed for | directly in pol relates o tho very important quesiion of | wegive it in full in Mz, Loavitt’sowa words, The guon of this character from Norfolk County, Mass. . n-‘mrrrbuma lumi, ;o d_:gw:, ml\llurl willi ing to add to the above cost, nnless | :;» Jn’rrl'u After ¢ r;: st I‘hl'nt! ;““mslwd“ l‘cii( "”d;h&"‘,““ poat and coal Teferred mlnlnu 'x:':vfl: Wi oertainly find it intercating. ull. «al i . s pndition to’ some & per cont of its water, before it attains the proper erest o " o il ot | 35 X e L C - ,, | tions and corras) suce, I bave thought it might be of lu- : B Wully squal Ia valus ia its nataral condition to’some spect v tinn dough state, stiff enough 1o :}.:"""'.‘"fi,',‘,:L":'.:L’;,"‘.':,‘:",'vf,"‘( S ) i ::fli.‘:‘:,_:,;, | drained bog, a3 onk wood, snd quite a8 valuable. e B e ; MEMOPANDUM AROUT PYAT, BT T. . LRAVITE. »w fibrons peat after it has been condenscd. Suc t into blocks which can be handled, of one: > gt CONNECTICUT PRAT FIKLDS. $ Tudeed it 18 of the greatest interest, 83 it enables us 10 | Oge oubie foot of ornde Peat, fair quality, woighs poity whish shows few traces of fibrons matter, eithe These works have been In oporation, experimentally, | yur eugine set in place oo | Conmecticut is very rich in peat, and it has bee used for | add strong testimony to what we have already said upon obotit-....... s EL N Kooia, sloma or leaves, generally shows o pitel; , | some three years, and like all exporimental works, ha Two wills, st 008t.... . --- "o | fuclin that State, to our personal kuowledge, over 40 | the sulject, by which we wish to awaken an interest in | Oue cubio foot, same materinl, cosdensed, Y A | o ty cost n good deal of mon (llnu others, profil- | Trausportation aud sotst | years, thongh to & very Timfted extent, mmpz 'lu-cume the micd of every oue that reads this artiele. nm:m':’-"'n‘;:h S R ne. U ! 200 | those who would, end most necded to use it as fucl, were PEAT TOR GENERATING STEAM. .nlwul,.. ooy =~ fwe when eut, and is dense and fine in the grain when dricd, This ismore apt to bo the case inpeat deposits | ausde f-om moss than from those which have been fo i i aqualic plants, or from parts of trees, with wi exporience, may £avo. Wo wero told thet | gures, sy, ... wced ive diffcrent patents, and we supposs | Hurdles, barrows nsider the whole perfoct. They certainly te and horses. ; slmogt as dense ns mineral conl, aud [ Bulldisg to shelter mille o 8 good Tt RN . S store-100m, alops and sheds. . as good for making stoam, Indeed, we nover saw & | 4y o contingenci. . o W'T”M' g "ii‘""“""‘f 1n England pest has been subjected to gevere tests, npon | One block, as i Gomes mois for cultivation, and some o n England peat has been subjected to pevere tests, npe 5 taken fire nad burit out until five | locomotive and atationary engines, and has alvays couo ‘measures Sxixt) (€0 cubic inchos), and weigbe cident ary 2 » or six feel of the surfuce was entirely destroyed, We re- | out with full testimony in its tavor. A paper was re! i last s ot Diooks Den 100 | 1 mber onghn the town of Franklin, that buroed all one | year beforo the British Assoclation, by a Civil Engincer, m’sh:lmr’:\%:;fi:iom ponir o mflymm 3 fraga wro froquently overgrown in the ¢ f their or fire thun it makes; and possibly it makes power b g - A b prpfeyadh odianrd 1 Clark, which gave some valoable facts about the Ak pation. [ndeed, t nstances in Europe p eacugh to do sl the elovating of the heavy b ot 5,00 ammer, and was 1o have retain he fire through | Damed Clark, which gave sotn e ‘ bloe! Enl-:. y - i saam to indicate s coasation h’. the gro lr”n the { terial to such a great hight t0 maxe tho At ;“:(:Ing ih t sclla readily ot Nr") | th Winter. 'It s certaln that it was burning the seopid. | 108 . W:" ll‘“l‘nlu‘. .tl ;dgun:;‘ “r:‘llh!:” o .'d:z‘;n;x: . whers fhey de mfl‘:.:!bl'ldl‘:.l‘:"o:“"“'s"-'h n to indica! growth o At Lexington, the sed | ells re he 00d ifs Tost o R Py s ey i o u good fucl, this result “'would | itsuse, lts trial upon two Lng aad s % ey ‘ecovomical method of is, uudoubtedty, profitable. The condenzad_peat, when dry, ut §5 a tun at the works, or §10 a tun in Bosto After this cxwmination, we went to the works of the r of both the peat companies at familien and extensive manufictu r various pi me many of ov: readors can | value fully. the .ulw- -;r’;- t, os mmethi;g Tn Trelaud, the engineers of three of the principal rail- {:‘.‘f.fl'.".".":.‘:‘:%“‘" lm{r::‘:‘:" “m:n“h\ ways unitod in o practical trial of condensed peat—not | three foet wide, Gronsscwf o inery, 0L B vevioat (24} prat mows when the bog bas grown over with t alterwurd died or been destroyed by sto: | | wn Live fallon forest has been overshiclmed and buried | * Boston ¥ " ‘about a mile distaut, of which $1025, At the o eonl ' r : i . i iy e o %, i of. L. W, Joho! of Yalk ollegn onsed like that we have deseribed, and not as good, -~ oy by a subsequent re of sphagnum. There ore | are able to give more ""“"‘.‘l‘lv sticulas, in Boston we hink pr mpete wfully, as it | published u valuable pa "!.1 ‘.‘ M"]v"“w:." \n(\l?u':“(lj':)lnf" yet they found it made an excess of steain, even on ac up- Tt ;;mmm:;:;w”fi::?h” Justancoss of twoor three successive growths of | DESSREFTION OF THINMILL, would be taken readil; at § o tun, aad at this, with labor | JyouTog e location of some of the richest deposits, | grade, with the fire-door open, of 8 COmIOR conl-burner. | Giner methiod, oxoops upou che grass, as in | 8t $1 a day, would mske o very profitable busi 1 1 hough 1t was more vith 8 view of iuciting people to use | The lrcml was 40 miles an hour, the steam-gauge making | Of these bioks, wes s tuey cume fiom the mill 610 welgh rating wachine of one of theso mills is fix. 00 to 120 1bs pressure. The fuel emitted no smoko, | onetun. _ when the train -upmndng. gnd but s trifle when stands As these blooks are hbkcut to dry. an aere of lsad will be 1d in varions places, ufor fel. Yot it 1s now eertain | from aod poat. 1o lrelaud very valuable timber is du x4 | ovr opinioa, eondcnsed peat will Vo sold the peatas manure - & square, strong ‘ poal bigs, where it has been buried for untold age feet, the loge of the frame standing upon the floor oz upon before the end of 10 years, at prices o low that the value | o 1t posscsses peat deposits equal to suy in | Vst conaley, too, the growth of peat is not confi udation, which being wore solid ia botter, as it | of conl wiil be materi . Tt certanly_can he | H8 U P woon be. do 3..,.«4 by "ihe ing, und_tho fuel stood the blast well, making bat litila cuundflnwanu?htwlflnfl;h: .y | Basinw, but 13 often found elimbing sides of Lils, e e o Mool poritton Al the mae | 1ado pradtable ot € o tun, as tho Inborers may b steh | i pines alreads ordered for i1« manufictuce, - Som of it | asbes aud olinker; aud_ the utanfous declulon w3 ol Tapread o ok o s ot 4 el TR ke | s Ao, s AT o el 3 chinery thaf oan be seen when the mill is at work is the A high wages on sccount of any skill or | §ly iy wlmost as solid as the condensed fael, Wo do | ondensed peat whs an admirable fuel forrailway purposes, | 086 a6fo 60 oL, £ s o G lupos, N T, o iy8 wet, for the peatdlike bead of the cepter shaft, which projects about two foot in tho work, except, perhaps, the peat eutlen, | o0 yoitate to say to Conneeticut farmess that they liave | 'The followiug report of trial wade on the New York | STow 193 tuns,” . | D b power ing water. Its spongy character 18 | bovo the upper floor, and is driven by & bevel wheol over isn $1j ¢ red by strong-handed | UL ecnith i sowe of their most, at prosent, worth Contyal Raflrond 4 furnished us by Mr, Leavitt, aad bears | “UPae i S vared with frames 10 tiors bigh L. e hatacle in converting it into fuer, two feet or geared into & pinion upon the hori- | Wan. An eu uaderstaiids wachinery well T"We know of one near Hitdgeport of 1o acres, | the iupress of « matter-of-fact statement. can bo mavufactared and dried. in (s megoge, r | S st peat formations bave become so | zontal shaft, which is moved by o #ixeinch pulley and belt o BRAlag OO, R s bes. 1ot coutain less than 250,000 tuns of as good #yx ENGINE TRIAL. ) st fug got e (3 wolid, ne ble fiber so much decomposed, that e N "eos, A ich a ose can bo had fu peat as‘ever wo 1ol 1in Irolaud. It is remarksbly - " ot 1 A fn ey ‘wequies the nuwe of “rock peat,” vhilo tho Lpper ping e e peveie S o vron. In b4 wpper sirats; There fve peat bée ta'| - Wa have othiers at hand of etmllar fandh, but Liia mewet donbtely Saven mpront s ualey whe housed aad allowed \ piratum boars the name of turf—a nswe by which peat is nd th s possiblo that somohody Fent 201 o8 L where o sabstance somewhat reserbling adipo- | SUZIS P : rock poat is far sdvanced towerd the formation of In case of such an one of the si that cunstine and v ! Substances found ifi ancient peat bogs in Ireland. ety e o asyveos, sxgtoms, Mo o ey o, ':;,M } caliod “ mincral coal,” which is all of vegetable | obC ""'I"l',“ "'r".';""‘:“"‘““" removed with searcely a loss '"'"m“,‘ P KEW-YORK'S RESOURCES=—A PEAT MACHINE. For, fireman, —Left Syracuse at § Volock and 40 minates, (10 "";;',.”""“‘ o0t more than 100 to 190 cuble fi'u- | @rigiv, &8 much as peat. T o 8 & g i OFf the State of New-York it is only necessary to say | winites behind tume,) with 2 empty 8 wheel box freight cars. | of dry fuel. v > ! pper part of (he box an iron grate occupics the | UPon it. Bear in mis that it 18 08 It only ey L T o paands of atoam tho. engive worked well | © An nore of péat, of far qualiy, welldrainad, if one, foed g a5 we made up the 40 minntes | dopil, will geacrally coutaia L 101,200 tans, iolding s 10 be & Lonfldenbl»"an,\ in the chara dose 06 fnjury fo. the work; and except in t ong States already 1 and in the « ¢, with openinge between the bars, po About an inch above this graie a knife at- : tached to il shaft continually rovolving ents the peat | Lards it but litthe, as the peat after it has begun 10 hardon into such small pieces that by the rabbing motion of the | does wot readily nbeorh water. blade they are crowdod through the grate. These PREPARING PEAT POR PAMILY USF, ivel Mr. Wood, whose un wentioncd, ed; it 1 , ad took us along preity shary \ Rhes tapt ot oy Jound tu every County: | in going 25 miles, DA krrired’ at Port Byron on time, ‘Ube | 1o %4 tuns of dry fuel. Greator deoth in dson, we kiow, from > 3 3 - » steam 6id pot run below 120 pounds any of the time, and was Yow peats, Lowever well drained. contain less thea 5 pw 1 showndn X ARG oF M SO | Cfien trom 195 poune to 190 pounds, when tho esgiue wes | cont ‘of water, and many contals 6 o 75 per ceot. sen used in a siall Way | working fhe strongest she would steam the best. Our own estizmates have alw bmudounflar‘ nd within @ year a company We tonde tims ol the way very easy, although wehad a | moistare, which fs safe. but it qnite probable s er County, with the 10ten- | gtrong bead wind sl the way and snowiig at times quite fast, | cent d be fair in the majority of well drained moadows. 8ses; at loast they d m, s froquently b L i notgals rin color ugh that which is most cotopact is the best n 16 patural coudilion, it has been found that the peat of | pieccs fll succe upon other grates, g Pilas AR 0 the most fibrous char a8 it appenrs to 1bo eve, is ; and liner, snd srrunged upon alternste sides of the hox so | "»}\";- "( to=lcy, B ok b+ About four miles | aud very cold. We took oo a trifle over four tuns cf peat at When best drained. peat is worked to the w:‘m ‘easily roduced in 8 condenmog macbiag, and proc # 10 iv0 & spiral motion {0 the passing wass, which un. | 159 sid 1310, ) dug red enongh for the supply of | Mching now at | Ryracse, which wasall we had. We could have ruu to Fair- | Lotk as egarda eouoiny of labor and the quantity @ sobsiance for fuel, which is often better thau that | dergoes a rubbing or grinding operation nutil it is reduced | 7 tire for cul to warm a mechanic's | i wve commenced dig: | port with it (71 milcs) if wo liad vot been dotalned at Palngrs | of fuel noed, orked froi t which has an appostance to the uniz- | 10 the con of plaste: shoy in AL 1 threo 4 sud back, | il bura,” | oboat oue Lear nd.nfib--nq for & broak-down. We | Peets vary mueh in their & Jitinted, when dug from the swamp, of much the greatest samo piocess of irst breaking the lutps, ru s WAL byt APt ve o, L g " | ot that they have & Lt it will bocome o subsfl- | had 10 keeo our fre sp h'.vm-c.mmmufl: s ooy wm wih walue, beovgse 1t looks as thoagh it would burn. &lly mixing; and all the voots and fibrous i ROl the mctace el o e et ts the idels, 1a | PigREnevd: Lo Lo il ',"",..,, ,_m":m, u..,"""‘“‘_.,km, o al ot B 4ty ished the wood. Five tons of peat | than the lighter and mote porons material, and ars ~thore- LA e fiZhestor whh tho train we had, ol hrlat::.flxr.\pu. ot t : pest bears 2 close sunalogy to the hawr in mortar. «-nmvfln a0 essential faature of this process, snd vao whieh, 8 ¥ mnd spocimens of pest so_inceparably | of the o b eimorials i oo be alm st worth. | However light, porous or flwota tho peat may bo, it is | & weeke Tho subenont work, o it for the wood-houss jods for fuol, Whisis ths case where muddy water tims | ! ced to n perfectly hum:flmi miss, and the fiber | OF murket woald wot be more thau ote day. AN the tools bas nearly all Qisappeared. Any peat from' s well-drained | 1 bod, or should want, to do e ssme w again, vesa g of surrounding hiMls w in exectly theright condition 85 to moisture for | Wheel-barrow, o apade, a slane, and o knife similar ton | O wa have alren ot deposit, origimally pure and | in this sannner. IT Yery wet, it wonld be necessary | bay knife. Most of the peat eround that I was scqaaioted | ojoon o a seript | ' | o let it lic a dsy or two after digging from the bog, to | with was,evorluid with producing course wild gruse. | goo ehut jte principls is based upon t : L Sasey thas s o gy e g a4 7 for u portion of (e moisture, ws it eticks to the mill | 10 ety § Suei o i peat caboot LAve its walor squocsed out, nor can it bo | or Fresctt to witiees & JH9 RO, e rarnaoe:. o aad ot sho production of et The waler | s when extremely wet. 1t the peat can be | 10 handlo, th fork took it of), and st of peat, in tho condition it comen from the | '] Bdont (hat use peat in locomotives for Meky ‘Dever " am coufiden we can a "“;:.?- .‘ is bel articla Thee is wlso a pest machine in operaton at Pekin, N Cou N. Y., suvented by Mr. 8. Roberts, who, | would have taken us to Tochester Delug tho owner of & large peat bog, had energy enough | though it was o very bad der. The same eogine would ha 10 set his wits to work 1o ufilizo the materi: used about 3 cords of wood ruuning to Palmyra, wiile we | some sections, will be brmtl of great Wmportamce, thad raner tssie of THE TrRose, not quite 4 of pout for the same distance. Jt gavo | Ught and inferior qumiilies of eruds peat, wo are Ablo t0 'd therefors only much stoata as wood, and burned a beautiful fire. Unr sy exeslient articlo of fuel. COMMOn 56080 ides a8 & porfect rucee .n.u m sorry that thogs was ok | PWromoss peats are invarisbly ., The most n? . mass i S nos the wasli lue of & i it so much esrth that it cannot 1o more than about 60 per cent of | faco of prat first e grousd in ® mill and mixed into a et e pestTevpery's moisture it will ud 10 be in the best possible cou- <harp e Vight Kind of grate used for buro ""m' " At T J Yours, truly, H. WATKEYS, Master Machluist, | : f’?‘ ing awakened, to prove that your dition for this process of ma . My hmfdri, wre 1. drv fuel will Le 40 per ceat, by 1 was hard, wero laid to carry the peat upon a0 | When in Boston, in June, we had a talk upon peat with wn ¢ i " A by searn Dower, whert, atet | G Lwiichel, Protdont of te Boston and Worcester Joad, | Worcestor B o TR AT Y 0 yilin,pa re water, and it will | and it o3 fz avlile that kuown af clayey or = , ? §equontly crorflowed the peat beds. am of 40 or 50 per cent. nealy all o the peat dope | s 1 | 4 country, contsin some earthy matter. Care | f from thebog. " | Fhectburo, and vl | i by s e, Whert M | . ‘ el eeor taken in examiuing locations to be S LN 484 WA | an ee fo Siaiantn ! * o s e SN s and one of the shrewdest managers of that kind of prop- ** Y am satzsied that wo have got to coms i arthy e ot i1 | S oAneIes oDeE | andione to digmetag s e Ty s, the ground, batng made to revolve | epiz in New-Engiand. We found him determived to ex- our tailroads, some time.” e s P e. We think that in some distcicts, | 450 Lelt indep 1 sote medsure of tho me e "‘_,f"‘nl.‘“fi‘,, ,',"w.,A,."y ftareo. By skilifuily bandlink the tae rods of sarfaes ut' ol n:;n.}m(. auine the works ut Lexington, to try the fuel: and, prov- | Judgodice of Portland, President of the ! . Ainerican peat is alwost univeisally | Wheel. om B Dlocks oan e fited off without tonch | The morter is laid four or five inehes deop, and cat in | yng jt—upon bis own engines—what others had, and what | Kenacbec Reilroad, was M,"e"““mfldv.h“ Wfl yr | Uponor of Uhe will, wolds—sometling like those | wheelburrowe, (08 PIGEXe G PRy rtow aha L | sauares, to d frafies & ek o wraed over— | heelieved e should, he was freo to sey that be believed | gutefor the nieroat of hiw rondl Mo wis preceded o poat deposita®are nOW sustain "~‘~‘ e : \ ‘nln‘l‘h 1 ot .l"':h‘-- lnu-'r r lv o0 b T‘l! [ about twao feet bigh, fo work well in tuniug off the Joad, | :’f."if,. bouse, MO e A L. T ey ::; L‘rnn;r.r.‘:...';“x(w,’:.‘l,hy,zsdytfl}fl -f“,’,‘{f’,.‘}.’,‘.‘;l'.': Iao-:.q‘bn:'p:n&l.rdm-n wu.?o(i:: nun‘:g.n&::- 5 or exhihit thcir stump and oot remains - | L@ by vl ey o o aboni | 1n Tegard to.the valun of peat, Romo persons rated it 4 | “Tyers o lac et compans somevhero'neat Bymcuse | enough right by the side of e roud to Ketp 4 Fonniop g | WO'RS af Legineion, anf Low, rottroed. tusslght o make its o wach sutiseptic [ us f o them off and place thiem upon | bikh as we unt o 88 producisg @ |2 s of which, nor toe extent of it+ operations ¥ | Gmost i-coneelyublo lngth of tiwe.” Ho s one.of the U g dom e g ot | « six bricks, | Touch ashes, But as scienco and expenence has taught us | Uhis aiticle, for want of definite information. | men who o not hesitate to move out of the ruts of the l'-rLl:m" at o B il o kiiis kol o MRS eptic watter wmolds ¢ 18 | oot gis il be no | “F N o fiber is prese such an extent hes a4 6 fert lizer, L think that il may be traced, and the peat in it . a box R it e d fos." 1 “ in his n apon the great res 8 of | oid track, whenever he con see o betier one. We will iy | ehemaster a6 Tuilioad Y wadition 1 60 light and,porous that ite ; wa upon the | ohIcetion, Yhoee A o [ipant sioog, the iadsen Wiratsbwenlysevan Toems o, | pont, and hold fusk o [ we have o dosot- SEaied Wi onc, a5 Lo sih Bo Wos donirod 19 a d . por; 80 th June, to gi he ol od farmers ¢ - o el wiet L P coe ias w'ways borne a low estimate, Expericnee. hows | (1P O gl S & dare afer, (hn weother being good, 1t should ba | hrkeuteriee VDR TN Coal were alll to0 chosp to in- | PEAT ¥OB 10X AXD GAS MAKEES AXD WORKERS—~ g R e I T e teny taa proved that these fibrous peats can be condensed plastic i e . s more pile | B! T g o bar Fallrond men iom Rilpg ettt R UL DS ¥ & very 1oKpensive process into substance almost as DIGGING ING THE PEA | tumned, and in about two ks more pilt '"';l duee them to try such unhesrd of expedients. May wo PEAT CHARCOAL. gating 't pretty thoroug! Iy, with » to the use of Tt m asthrncite oon), and as they contain o carthy | When we wore af the mill, the peat | fusliion, ws wo used to call it, and before the Fall rainy, it | yop0 thac the tfime is now eome. He stated its valus, | That peat will make ono of the best fuels for the iron. | seversl Lnes f rosd iv thit Scate. Avotkeryarty from Swass e h hey Y A T Gl % &t | should go to market, or the wood-house, Peat makes hot | s he ord av. oqual to oak wood, » Slisady.di yated he. | ton and 8¢ Albans, Vi, b ve beon t the 5(rs to-dey ot atier. aea then really more valuable than tho devosi rod «. which were kept goy s L3 s - . - when propared in the ordivary way, equal to oal 00d, | maker and iron-worker, is a fuct already demonstratc A N -~ ¢ 1id in the - 1 conllition 10 such work | f wiel answers for all culinary purposes. Ome rod of | y oy iene iy youd earil. Esperiments made in Eogland last veer, yestigate sspeciully us i the use of tiis fucl at some now i i i o R g hile, Ll oe th oaly ot tait . | ororiad makes about. three cords, 394 cubia feet, when cut | "5 SSIE | fiiuers hriefewhoro 1100k for paat— | Tonviniced the mor scientific minds engaged in the busie | oy g v bota Jnaiey s T Romthe S ANCY g ; on op | atie,” which ' sometiines made of ll iron nrd steel, | Fnches g ot | Mhould refe 10 L0 | i yipuper here is swaiap or marsh, wad hacd 10, disin. | mow of the followiug: ¢ That, it it also ctualy equal, if ' Tron G5, ssking If the Targe aud Baer T ; ANALYMS, DENSITY, COMPOSITION AND VALUE OF | with handle 1i S | water within inches of the nrface. ® | gash that which will make fuel. Dig, dry and testit. It | not really superior, to the best charcoal itself for »m\-iun’ seetion cannot be used in some of their . b-‘“ = < PRAT. o g | steel ) v pred | who lias peat gronnd need mot suffer r-;. flre wood, if o | 900 55 s eat. IF it loaves but Littlo ash, 1t i3 °good | iron ora, and for puddling iron, has been demonstrate “ter from the Great Wostern Ratlway Co., luu‘s C, ! Numonwss atialyses of dried peat in Europe show the ol ¢, piffl iy tvo feet long, four to s i wheolbuerow and kuife, and Knows £ )y g6 deposit i3 deop, thrust a pole down, aud, if oy, Tha iron thus produced is tougher, saying *we are anxious 1o test foeing ooustisueis: i wire, with & Iip turnéd up to cut the side of the block. | 1 1 think I could get my o wooq | (1 aet ‘.[,L me of the mad from the bottom and test | eable, freer from fla?u. than any,other, tives” and asking for information 3 C A8 = & R | e older and more decomposed dhe peat is, the easicr it A€ ood und bundy by €T | i, value. " 1 it appears lack and unctuous, it ismors (han | gy this ush of poaty iton from_English mined of admitted Fancher. esq. of Lansingbarg, ¥, ot 3 % | cute and easion it is cured, and Is the most valu lo at the docr, drawn up sleh sehgth. | probabl it willdry banloud dense, 31 burd (04l Gaking | inferiority to tho fatous OLd YU nine 1 Salisbury, Con- o o 047 5 |1t euts like ¢ i# 4 comumou expression Wiet the e I SROON | §atmnet il g = neeticnt, aud the equally celebrated Swedish charcoaliron, Nifrogev.... ... 806 £0.70 o | deposit is excellent. Rocollect, however, xrhat R v P hogju Champlain, Clinton Co. N. Y. | has beon produced of & ?u‘hly eqlult:a fil(her w Vs Goomt of peat a5 compared with water at 1, Fifyen 1 vo 20%¢ % ayey peat, and not 1'stake mud for two and & half miles Joug, @ver half o mile wide, which hay Tts valuoe ovey al) other fucl (with tho possible exce Prom 0113 10 1.008, Kermarsh gives llglll-qu-‘. Tanc- | foel, "G T TP e TR in Waest. mfn'fll.fué'-m"r'&‘.'- “x;m.“ Gugling in, oM. tion of charcoal) in the sun-mm: of iron oml fnllr! ‘nlso 3 e e S A fl ) the puddling of iron, is demonstrated extenglysly 1n por- HERAL UETTAL 0l pont a0 conl. In rep: Tt bas s north of the City Hall of | 1, o County, and in the djoiulug pornen of New: it . - . g Lot x’.—m'rn!upelxe"hfmwn-" tions of Germany ax well o8 Englandyes S S 0P oy that we consider 1 tune pent, e 10 be one of the largest peat bogs except the one mentioned upon Auti- arian paat which ws Jearly uhchangea mosdy 0413 15°) Wy forud ihe blocks cut from the v 264, - Youug bgwaish peaty an carthy matrix intersected | arerige about oxkiy 10 48 inches, a \th 70018, 040 to 0,600, ' Old-carthy peet witko according to the conditlos of 1 brous tagtare, 0.561 t0 0.902. Ol4, or pitch peat, 0.6 i We take it they will averago « chestor County, N ork, thero i3 a vedY: I It tuen and woon ng and dryieg peat, W b deposit of peat, upon which 1806, at nt gual- | known 1n Amers difQhgs were | ooty, *"been 4R Us# inany years, in the manu. our process. equalto I tun of conl, (authracite) n;’ !mMRJ Italy, Beheinia, Bavaria, Wost. wnaluwn ;ha nsunuu 0{. buruiag .fiu'x'h::ln 118 i oy ®imoe laarned to burn cocl, are accus W oad i several other of the German §U00 UL, Lien it to best siraiaes. Tioy bave Jegra how to burn peat. It burms freely, requires bug 50 found i vat 20 blocks o | ity and grent depthi—over . -I?I‘, Wt 0%, Twonty-seve ples of English peat, examnn thot o man working by the day ave, 1 : ;‘m. Rabort Kano aud Dr. W. K. Sullivan, in 1851, ranged | minule—300 blocks making 19000 1 an 10nr, and ten | dug through tho swamp several years aifoe in Grder i dry NEW-JERSEY, YLVANIA, &0 yrim-l‘»fl‘“"'" R 2 Tgom 0285 to 1,039, Of course, if free from earth, the wost | times that for 4 day's work. 8o it is seon noW ecelly a | it for eultivation, and com is now growing upon EouT In other parts of N Jerser, ther are numerons smalle] * In Kouebroil, tis used for prddling and refining r.n. produces an inteuse heat, should be burned fn er . h to fornish the State with fuel, | pig metal to wake the find German castings—a process quastities at a time, but repewed somewhat more freqv mully only lifts the peat | that would yicld ten oi to the bank of | Which would ho corn growing. Tho work horo verifics the remark of Mr. Wood ahout n ter remain ned . ) peat 15 the most valuable, thongh somo peat is | man cun kecp two carts at work w0 inflammable than others of the same I | from the bed, ot wost a couple’ il or resinous matter. Some peats | the diteh. (iters, it is un object to distil them, The earts drive to the mill and dmap their loads under sand tuns of pent to the ace; s of 0 than all the profits upon f‘,:r“ " alual ndens of th sylvania coal mines, Many of | that requires g best charcoal—but peat is fourd fully from our own experience duriug the past three Soatlt Jo: oy coGar swawmps aro aucient peat bogs, | equal, This peat J8 neither condensed nor coked; ikis fi:fl"“ro'::::h[i‘:'lsr‘h:;mlh ':o::.l%l o CIgTOWIL timber, the debris of which have been | dricd in the sin and then in Kilus. Analysis of the poat 8" the surfuce. | oo Sl are pdding to the peat deposit, In some of those | used in this izon mantfucture showed \hnlu{luwlng Tesult: &-&:;l :','t'x'.'.‘ cnq:a :dnvliloul.:n - i %“m\um g;..ea‘uglzqu;y n#r‘_xivyd uL}-d,d-igm by the mouth of the mills, #o that one wan r'v}frlm&n jv “'f:" 4 docomsposes veey Mlowly, e0dl ’ g Gy g % cosl 8% shown by distillation; for it ylelds Mufnohls, | can feed two, haudling the blocks with a fork, and thu ile tho nyit Is wel, ecomposes owiy, anc wamp$, there is wore and better timber, batied in the Carbon...... . 2480 tarn, ablisliuents the E e g, prezyie sed, s, m,mn;,ufla oz paraty o | Keep s contitial sirecan of rade peat. passing from the Adhetes togelhoe 1o olotely that "-:‘y"l:“}-‘i::;"';-’; et peat than is wonled by tho living forest. e i 70.60 %’fi%‘&“"”"” e il ‘rom 60 Lo 90 parts of t are destructible by fire. | bog into the upper end of the mill, which is discharged | hundle n thia bog, it is not ol ipomessy 4 THE GREAT WESTHRN VIELDS. ey, 3% erous Tave been made to w 3 kel | fhe sod, which shows o nutural scpatation bevween 1t and [y oo i one peatbog in Tudisna over 60 miles long, As = a1 erous stataments I o duriag 49 push i rosiduinia 18 earth, oyide of iron, and potash. " Peat | Lelow in a coutiuuons plream, as unlike the fibrous mass # s fime, sand, hair ard water are wolike | the true peat, bt to take off u foot or g0 in dopth of whal | @i "y uyoraga width of throe milos, extending from' 0 v e - Wwould make, 1n 8 mwachine, excellent fuol; bus here, where ol - 2 i t s BB nerally Dot over three 1o eight per cent. But the as)cs | upon the wall w.’..'."f.:'fi‘&m:"»'.‘.;'o. b e o emooth | S et drained, th npger portion s becae fra- m:.k?“‘llt::v‘rh‘ :lrhr»" Tw:\"‘r vd:?“-:‘:'llll :T:n:l ":Z i l‘v‘(:‘|3m-l 2'1‘('1““" .hr.lnmn'nl‘lni'u md‘lilxr‘n‘g!:nd ?t:::oflgr i thoss he lorgest amount of ash, even 30 or 10 | 1t wust be undessiood that pressure is 5ot applied to the | bie, ud can uot ba ont out in blocks, sud is therefore | i SEESEE T 0y river below the mareh, ”.!, tod th"el:« a4 By <',“' r'":i gdlin the ** Annalos des Minen’ ar caat, ac0 valusble Tertilizers, as bumed clay i8 often | pest 1u any of it stages of condensation, and that no ef- | wasted. In workin this samo bog, by machinery, and by [ WECRN G0 T deep, T places it is’ known to 11 WA :xvn'u&‘ sod for that Fort i« made to squaéze ont the wator, Every attempt in | & company owning lsnd slong dows thie stroam for half a | e Ben C deep, The atmount of fuelin this bog is per- | * 1 18Tt 1s meoti oS bolng used for the sbove. o st TDONe: - ho odor of burning pent is occa | tht direction has foslod, and slways will fail fom physical | mile or more, (he whole could be vasily drained 0 or 30 | Gy nelculsble, or: rather incomprebensible, 1o ort 0 3, s Al o Bl onGi by an asente) oil, and it s traditiousl 1n Irelaud | comses whioh eannot e overcome by artifiisl meaus, | feet deep, and all fhio labor now expended tn earrylng the T elass of huinds, Bouth of the Kankakee, tho | "1 Bahetnia it s used with groat success, but in ten F = o sponge | peat off in barrows, conld be done in ox, ot lorso Carts. | Loy hogy botwoen there and the Wabash aro simply | iron works of Rausko it is mixed with o Tho : ‘.-b»- 10 quite as valuable as wood eshes for fertilizing, | eut by the digg Xus quaniaty produced from best peat is ve!z smsll, | the thorenghly Cn' o toa er endid five.” Naither have, however, gomo :u'x'nu eatimate of its comparatire valao. N, F. Pottar, saq., of Promdones, R. Narragaose: Brick sl the odor is preventive o(munfiuvn. ecoromically applied. Until the axt of ‘squee . ' Poat 1s poculisr to cool climates. Nature has thus pro- | dry is discovered. we may as well give up ull attenipts to WHERK PBAT J5 T0 BE FOUND. numenso, and they are traversed by three rmlroads, is drind & whole year before baing used, partly by the heat | under their large botlers for ily | squeese pent, which not ouly holds water, but air, which | Generally speaking, wherever a fresh water swamp 18 { "N the hoad of Lake Michigan, within 10 to 30 miles | of the furoaces. - Everywhero peat appears to iprove by ’ mr;uwium ket odd tho poo(llu with & constant supply of fuel; it is acessary that they should learn to utilize it. I yell =ays it has seldoms if ever been discovered within sor | resists peessure and condensation, What is required | known in Now-England and other Northorn States, there | o0 C1icago, thero is peat fuel enough to supply that cit 9 imes i valaabie workblo beds, | §F ¢ Jves to Lhe age of Jorasalom. Tho marsh along tho | “5The comparativa cost, woight and bulk of peat, aad: below, for ** one welre," A Tong been sought for in this matter is a process | peat may besfound, som % shall 50 condense amd compact the | sometimes o oveigrown with swamp trees and bushes, or | Galamie River pos, It does not abonnd in the valleys or warm s o xpace s Spaiz. In German; ihas been loo | ¢ 1 o b el that <iuks in water, when dry, | 8o mized with wash from the Lills as to desiroy ita | il wide, _nd“,,,'::;:,",,’,‘,:‘J,"'}‘f".’n"‘;",‘,:;;,;},"‘&“}‘: :mhfflmmt;';;r::b e ow aud uked for fuel, and the people have learncd the | ar readily as 8 biick@bich is the case with ke peat mado | workable value. Freqnont)y, however, the troes will bo | yood peat'ss that now selling at such profit upon it ey W Costat the woike. walnolof comprosscd 5o far that they have worked i1 | by M avilt s machines. found to spread all their roots over the surface of the peat, | Cagh'iy Massachusetts. Charooal of rosinous wood. 80e, ~~ balls with their hands aud feet. The blocks, the dimensions of which, 1 repeat, are | and not in it, andare almost-ns readily akinned off as the | "y Chicago ueed not sond to ladiana for fuel ; it is Of tieavy wood 468 106¢, ¢ Mz, Leavitt in bis work quotes numerous authoritics | Exdx2y inches, vill aversge about 31 5 each, taken | grass roota of a sod. Sometimes whore the wood bas been | gy ronnded with immense peat-bogs. All that is weated Mixed s mostly 8. ‘Yhout, Lo Bgging of peat, and its use and traflic as ficl in | immedietely fro the molds. When thoronghly dry, we | cut lon enough for the stumps to doeay, the debris of the | B t0none by start the enterprise of converting them One kind of 54 the eleventh sud twelfth centaries. It was used in 1560 | find the weight 19 to 16 oz, sy 14 0z, erage, and the | tree wi | be found couverted into peat-—not quite a8 good | {oo" el fuel ¢hat can be made Tor less than it now costs Another siad- . I wmhnm‘annghm, and for the Tt‘l: purpose in | measnrement 4)x2ix1{ inches, “The loss in w.vigmh is a: moss peat, yot capable of being condensed into valuable | 4o yring the coal {rom the mines in the center of the State. h" o) .".'.’.‘.‘;‘,:";‘;..“;'rfm nvn.b‘ulk of 'f.’&'."fi: oarly in the scventeenth ceutury. coli- | therefore fully 7o per cent, if the peat is pretty wot when | fuel. ‘I'he only object, ever heard to the no-marsh | ¢ e g excellent obarcoal. ug; and wa have s letigr before us from E. AWood, def- m’:{ou farmers remember basing, womotimes on the | poqy'iy thad it 14 generally too light, Im““.ll”" 5% m&(‘,;:“' ;:i!l%&‘«b:&?%m%':.hn‘?n Show [ t o e enonits of peat are s denss that team | ferson, Ashiabuls Couty, Obio, who ays heis an old | highest part of their Innd, which tey speak of a» having | much of it ..mmmpo..'.i fiber of conrse grass and weeds 1 be diiven over thp': om': are impassable morassex. |-peat digger, and that he prefers to have the ke standing”| ’;fvwn up. They have grown up '“g anta that decaying | 4o make good fuel when dried. That objection is all | the chrcosl, and that pest iron very highest ws0 wro difficult to unless they can be draived. | witkin ¥ or 10 inches of thia "surface, Such peat, unless ages whero they grew, huve formed beds of | Wo | ghviated in just such peat whon worked in a coudensing charaeter. ofi aive deoland and ‘we have 5o deposits in this | very fibrous, would be rather too wet for the machine, and know such a peat bed npon the *“ back bone * of Long | 1 opige. ‘When ti is convertad into charcoal, a metre of it yountry of mountain peet, which is formed of moss that wolld shrink fully as mueh as above stated. The best Tsland, where the peat hu® lwen measured 40 foot doep. weighs 660 15, showing greater density than chareval of froquently sproads over dry land, Ours, as before re- | condition in which it can be served to the machine is with | At moderate expense it ¢ he drained o the bottom. PEAT A8 FURL FOR LOCOMOTIVES—EXPERIMENTS, ; aud from some specimens of charcoal of condensed c»m. Totig somposed of materla); is generally | alout 60 per cent of moisturs, which is about s dry as it | We do notknow us any one jius yet Thought of converting | 1 isalittle romarkablo that s few exporiments have | pest, Which we eww at Boston, wo aro satistied that the be i we term swamps or basing, ind will | €an ordinurily he drained. thie great deposit into Tuel. heon by railroad men fo tost the value of peat as s | comparison would be still in favor of the ant Iways be found of the best quality where there has been | As tho shrinkugo of+the blocks after undergoing the | Whetover a basin is forived and filled with water, and | fuel for locemotive engines, since it has beon known by uco o 8tiil more result in its use. o - ‘n- Naast, opportunity of being overwashed with carth. endensiog opetation, i fully 40 per ceat ia drving, i i gradually grova up with squatic pante, worklug 1o a:‘:: sl e (o7 somo years idor tationary eagiuos o8 oo mg‘ Sowtoot o ’}:“‘h"n P S bares e 8hoj is found a bed of 3 hoev o , 05 well as . , that | ro, Pl o ell &5 ecouomical artioles evor usod. It B E% the most expensive eonl §s now used. 1t bas One of ‘uan‘ulni? of 8 good peas Log | very ensy 1o hahevo what we bave previously stat 4 11 b found in the foct that the water never -r:‘nnm. the dry, condensed peat does not oceupy wiore than one- | $uch & one, lot him try its value for fuel. also well known, that iu every experiment triod upon rail- Tuel they needs " may b oolored dark brown, end yet be pure enotgh for | fourth (he spuce it does in its natural condition in the PEAT 15 MAINE. roads, the testimony of engidoors and practical o haa | been proved by 'flfl“““‘"g“:‘,fl":“ wll culinary ses, Therefore, J.., one has whet he | bog, and i 5 half a8 much space as the samear- | Dr. C. T, Jackson, who muds a goological survey of m :mnnlm::in in fuvor of peat, aven when it bas beon “Ll dfl:fl“:lulmm-u‘“h ".‘." .; e w.’d pe | o, dyied in the sut. This is one of the | Maine for the State uthoriiics, names many localitics a it crude sinte, and undor every disadyants not used until it has boen out of the bog a ‘whole year. ticle uncon o the condensing mochine, Another i8 the | where the peat may be worked with great advuntage, Some | no ease baw it been burned in & furnance rf or fuel, which is nearly, aud for | of the deposits which ho exomined wers 20 fcot thick, | structed, and so far as we are informed, no has boon doubled in value; but the host fiu- | based upon whito sand, some o the lest of which are slong | wuade with the condensed article. We are satisfied that that a tun of | the line of railroads. He notices some of these rich de- | never that is fuirly tried, every railroad will endesvor wator: obserye the quality and depth of the de- t. Mo generally find from four to ten incher hich way be termed sod. It is an onter covering of the mpu- . M' lot Lim first observe the characier of ":f: m only trouble with this pest is want of density. This culty will never ocour with machine peat. Yor the smith’s forge no other fuel is equal to Pen char- coal. It will, aa s00m ns known, bo fu_universsl domaud poat, wd tho :up«rllh,h i.lmmumm 80 perfect that the t pe lm;ln.m ;.r cunilonning i Aedo th o A medtk. N Y atertord g ! Ty oLy ) povering may bo rolled vp like & at carpet. aedi- | condensed peat can be made, aud vored in o distant osits in ngor, Thomaston, Limericl Vatorfor), its own pont bog and fuel maoufactory, For rail- e K 8 T b | nasricet, a |¢s¢ 6ast, t1Xing the average rua of the weathor | o found ono mait who had usod peat for years as dowew. | ronds, wo say confilently poat is the fuol. Tt ls earls by ait couutry biackamits throtghout (bis country. , Iron orutor e poat s often very Gbrous, comrse, light and it hent yoars, thia o o of poat dricd diroolly fiom | tie fucl, as woil 04 for making sloawm, with the greatest | handicd; o teuder can ewry euough for two bundred | made or wored with peat clnreaet Np PU0 LUCRlg, i sngagod, ppongy. As this is most easily obizined, it is the Jind | the bog Burcoss. wlies; it Vindled; it r'”x‘mw‘ o wood for kind- | bestin ¢ n‘vnr}tlt.| Horse-shoes aud horse-) s rnw: used, and hua given @ charsoter to peat facl | & will now show bow tho condonsod peat brisks are Thomaston, 1e., is the plics where imiouse quantities | ling; it burua (Foly end stoadily (o th tust, leasing no pw‘h.rhv:are hizhly approciated. %“ i | s o140 ug. sgacn 1 baga wood lagd 3ad Gagonde | " i, bl o e 0 < ‘f‘“}t"’l’{fl%’w Buch ueat, whon mized ik vl sud dried. Tho Boaton Company tiave throa { of limo are buraod, wid 10T, Taalans buuks thak 20 way Dk ey