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ii Ohio The Farm, Garden and Kitchen.t2,696.Peat Beds in Vermont.—In Vermont peat is abundant, as the geolog-I Iimi ! 5iir\'Ar nf PpnloGflAr Hitr»K/inn]r 1• Kesenta- jca| sunev of Professor Hitchcock and utional Hagar have fully demonstrated.—They say there is not a town in the leakin'* ^tato ^,at 'ias u°t a supply of peat■ state stoml UP for future use. ’ The Rev.e in la.-! f^a^? has also devoted much at-a ma ten*‘on f°^ie development of this i’*^-1 forty- Portanf truth. If not now important.I it is sure to be in a few years more: the most densely wooded portions of Tenn.)jthe State have been so completelystripped of forest, that timber and even fuel is now an expensive article.STheweesaltin tHoitheivensubandis tmalIponni heret. He Peat in Vermont is not confined toe Meth-j there it thevlowlands and vallevs of streams. Mr. Hall names some of the highest towns in the State where it is found ; and all He saw the railroads cross beds of it, which in gilt j would furnish them with far cheaperii. He fuel than wood or coal. Some of thesewitwirthacanhenits*wawai. Johnnie walldeposits are so old and deep that fossil elephants have been found buried made i several feet below the present surface, ictures. I On the summit of Mansfield Mountain, in the town of Stowe, Yt., at an elevation of 2,348 feet above tide, there are beds of peat and sphagnous mess, rapidly increasing the quantity of fuel for future ages.whup?co Iasnctures iselves:wethetheor elect7. Nes-wiFlock Pruning.—Among the manyinretwl\\r 1
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Barton Orleans Independent Standard
Barton, Vermont, US
Fri, Nov 02, 1866
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