Show butter in bogs time to time lumps ot butter are dug out of the irish bogs and specimens of it may be seen in various museums A chemical examination has recently been made of a sample of such butter which was found four feet below the surface of a bog at maghery county tyrone the original lump which weighed about 20 pounds is probably bro bably some centuries old and it is suggested that it had been put into peat water to preserve it or to give it a flavor and had been i et so 1 ad the fat been preserved by the peat water that it still retained many of the chemical char of butter fat though iti appearance had greatly changed thu exterior was white and granular and the whole mass had been converted during the passage 0 years into a material |