Show e 4 I Coal in in the Making I 4 9 0 PEAT EAT is not a familiar fuel in the United States P pEAT More attention is being given to peat now that it is realized ed that coal gas and oil fields are not inexhaustible Peat is coal in the making It It is the decaying vegetation which has filled a lake and turned it into a bog There are great peat beds in this thia countr country some of them in in M Michigan and Minne Minne- sota The chief dif difficulty k has been to devise a machine which will dig and dry peat econom econom- ic llY It is not practical to cut peat by hand handas as is done abroad Three Thre months of sunshine I are required to dry the bricks of peat cut from froma a marsh by hand and it isn't practical to dry them by baking That would require more fuel than would be contained in the finished product Minnesota experiments have produced a machine machine machine ma ma- chine which digs the peat grinds it and spreads it on the ground in a thin layer which dries quickly This is a large machine machin which is said to produce a ton of dried peat at a cost of |