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Title: Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel

Author: Samuel William Johnson

Release Date: July 28, 2008 [EBook #26142]

Language: English

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PEAT AND ITS USES,

AS

FERTILIZER AND FUEL.

BY

SAMUEL W. JOHNSON, A. M.,

PROFESSOR OF ANALYTICAL AND AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, YALE COLLEGE.

FULLY ILLUSTRATED.

NEW-YORK:
ORANGE JUDD & COMPANY.
245 BROADWAY.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by

ORANGE JUDD & CO.,

At the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of New-York.

LOVEJOY & SON,
ELECTROTYPERS AND STEREOTYPERS
15 Vandewater street N. Y.

TO MY FATHER,

MY EARLIEST AND BEST

INSTRUCTOR IN RURAL AFFAIRS,

THIS VOLUME

IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED.

S. W. J.

CONTENTS.

Introduction vii

PART I.--ORIGIN, VARIETIES, AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERS OF PEAT.

PAGE
1. What is Peat? 9
2. Conditions of its Formation 9
3. Different Kinds of Peat 14
Swamp Muck 17
Salt Mud 18
4. Chemical Characters and Composition of Peat 18
a. Organic or combustible part 19
Ulmic and Humic Acids 19
Ulmin and Humin--Crenic and Apocrenic Acids