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...west of Ireland suffered for lack of potatoes (its staple food) for the lack of peat (its staple fuel). The Free State Government rushed aid to the stricken area, fed daily 18,000 persons, distributed much free coal...
...boulder bank glued together by heavy clay, or blasting out a water supply through granite rocks almost under water all the time, or firing in the tiny engine room of a hospital steamer with dusty coal, or cutting down trees and hauling them for firing, or getting peat from a fly-beset bog, or digging roads. They have been working for Labrador in the way Christ worked for the world by doing tough jobs they did not necessarily have to tackle. The changing of the characters of a dozen men, mostly fishermen, in a scattered community like Galilee has without...
...live with more comfort. Along the coast, for example, woolen weaving has been established so that during the winter the women can make clothes, and agricultural stations have been located in the less barren parts of the country where experiments are made. Lumber mills have been established, and several peat bogs have been opened. In a word, the most is being made out of the limited resources of the country...
...HARVARD BOTANICAL CLUB. "Peat and the Formation of Peat Bogs." Mr. H. H. Bartlett. Nash Lecture Room, 4.45 P. M. Open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...
...HARVARD BOTANICAL CLUB. "Peat and the Formation of Peat Bogs." Mr. H. H. Bartlett. Nash Lecture Room, 4.45 P. M. Open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...