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Dry peat without a binder, or mixed with coal dust and tar or pitch is used for the same purpose. Machine peat is used for many purposes, among them making into briquettes, peat charcoal, and peat coke. It has been found practical to make illuminating gas of peat, but a far more general use is for running gas-engines and producer-gas furnaces.
If all the peat in the United States could be used in producer-gas engines the ammonia yielded would alone have a value of $36,000,000,000. Peat is also used for packing material, as a fertilizer, for manufacturing paper, for coarse cloth and mattress filling. By mixing wet machine peat with cement it may be made into blocks for paving and other construction work.
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