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Show Peat Straw. Peat straw is the woolly fiber of peat cleansed and dried. It la generally of a light-brown color, spongy In toxture, light, clean and with an extraordinary power of absorption for gases or liquids. It has long been used in preference pref-erence to straw, leaves, or any other material as litter In stables for horses or cattle. It will absorb ten times Us wolght of ammonlcal liquids more than throo times as much as whoat or ryo straw and, when, saturated, Is piled and alloweil to rot, by which it forms a humus of tho highest valuo as a fertilizer. |