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  • Peat grows and forms layers over time and yes you can find vertical dead trees in Peat, just like in Coal.

    Man made global warming? No way! 2009

  • Peat grows and forms layers over time and yes you can find vertical dead trees in Peat, just like in Coal.

    Man made global warming? No way! 2009

  • D Stephen Peat from the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in exhance for a fourth-round pick in 2000.

    NHL transactions - June 2000 2000

  • Philadelphia - The Flyers still like them big, and Red Deer's big and bad Stephen Peat is as tough as they come.

    USA TODAY Latest news 1998

  • Philadelphia - The Flyers still like them big, and Red Deer's big and bad Stephen Peat is as tough as they come.

    USA TODAY Latest news 1998

  • I don't know whether any of you have dropped any money in Peat Companies, but we have that as a resource.

    The Mineral Resources of Ontario 1905

  • By the general term Peat, we understand the organic matter or vegetable soil of bogs, swamps, beaver-meadows and salt-marshes.

    Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel 1869

  • Peat, which is to be worth cutting in the spring, must be covered with water during the winter, else it is pulverized by the frost.

    Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel 1869

  • Peat, that is somewhat dry, though requiring more power to work, leaves the machine in blocks that can be piled up on edge and upon each other, six or eight high, without difficulty, and require, of course, less time for curing.

    Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel 1869

  • Peat which is intended to be used after simply drying, must be excavated so early in the season that it shall become dry before frosty weather arrives: because, if frozen when wet, its coherence is destroyed, and on thawing it falls to a powder useless for fuel.

    Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel 1869

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