The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 86, Ed. 1 Monday, January 12, 1976 Page: 6 of 18
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The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
Monday, January 12, 1976
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There’s no fuel like an old
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In many parts of the world
.peat still keeps the home fires
^glowing. In Ireland, they’ve
Jfceen burning the old sod for
ytenturies.
Now the fuel shortage is
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^ancient energy source in the
JUnited States. A large utility
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jpn 200,000 acres of
|tate-owned peat bog. It
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jpeat into synthetic heating
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1 Peat burns slowly and
evenly, like the charcoal in a
backyard grill. Slabs of the
brown material are easily
stacked and stored.
Irish Call it Turf
Peat, which the Irish call
turf, formed during
thousands of cool, damp
years. Bog plants slowly
decayed to make a febrous
substance midway between
soil and coal, the National
Geographic Society says.
Most bogs began as
glacier-gouged lakes or ponds.
Over the centuries, these
filled with decaying organic
matter — microscopic aquatic
plants, mosses, shrubs, and
trees. The vegetation may be
compressed into layers 60
feet deep.
By identifying the
characteristic pollen grains of
different plants, scientists can
reconstruct the history of a
bog’s plant life, through
periods of moist and dry
climate.
In the northern United
States and Canada peat bogs
commonly are called
muskegs. Plants that die in a
muskeg may retain their form
indefinitely since the acidity,
low temperatures, and lack of
oxygen prevent them from
decaying entirely.
More than plants are
preserved. Tools, pottery, and
ornaments of civilizations
hundreds of years old have
been recovered in some bogs.
Found Ancient Men
Peat cutters in Denmark
unearthed men preserved
2,000 years in bogs. Their
skin, hair, fingernails, cellular
and muscular structure were
hardly touched by time. One provide unique niches for
man, probably hanged as a naturalists to study. Many
religious sacrifice, still wore a carnivorous plants thrive in
leather cap, belt, and braided muskegs because they can
rope around his neck. overcome a nitrogen
Left undisturbed, bogs deficiency by trapping and
eating insects. many leaves to snare
The round-leaved sundew mosquitoes, flies, and gnats.
(Drosera rotundifolia), a The fernlike plant digests its
common bog resident, insect diet with special
extends as many as 200 dissolving enzymes,
sticky tentacles on each of its Bog support cash crops as
well as unusual plants.
Gardeners and farmers have
long used peat moss as a soil
conditioner.
In Massachusetts much of
the state’s million-barrel-
a-year cranberry crop comes
from bog on Cape Cod. The
bogs are flooded at harvest
time so the buoyant berries
can easily be gathered by
large wooden booms.
Population
It has taken at least a million
years for the world’s population
to grow to the nearly four billion
of today. At the present rate of in-
crease it will double in the next 40
years, some experts predict. A
possible food source, oceans
cover 71 per cent of the earth’s
surface, and produce only one per
cent of man’s food at the present
time
Hospital
Notes
The following patients
have been dismissed from
Memorial Hospital:
Charles Wells, Mrs. Richard
Nichers, Ramon Castillo,
Mary Ann Montoya, Mrs.
Bryan, Maye Simpson, Tee S.
Mills, Mrs. Davis Sumpter,
Billy E. Voyles, Mrs. Harry
O’Donnell, Faith Short,
Lucille Brister, Albert Kemp,
Curtis Simpson,
Paul Wein, Alas Jeff
Armstrong, Tom Mackey,
Mrs. E. M. Smith, Mrs.
Francisco Soltero, Mrs. Van
Lease, Heather Franklin, Mrs.
Edward Adams, Thomas
Clark, Linda Drake, Doris
York, Tocorra Borundo,
Kenneth Smith, Vickie
Hayes, Katherine Jenkins.
Congratulations
The Winkler County News
extends congratulations to
the following parents whose
babies have been born in
Memorial Hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. William
Knight, a son, born Jan. 4.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Campor, a daughter, born
Jan. 6.
Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Lopez,
a son, born Jan. 6.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bonella,
a daughter, born Jan. 6.
Mr. and Mrs. Don
Westerman, a son, born Jan.
7.
Mr. and Mrs. William
Miller, a daughter, born Jan.
8.
DIFFERENT FARMHOUSES
Farmhouses in the United
States typically are scattered,
each sitting amid its fields.
But seven towns in Iowa are
different, National
Geographic points out. The
founders of these Amana
Colonies, who came to this
country in 1842 to escape
religious persecution in
Europe, laid out their
settlements like European
villages. Houses and barns
cluster together, and the men
go out to farm the
surrounding countryside.
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Parks, Phil. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 86, Ed. 1 Monday, January 12, 1976, newspaper, January 12, 1976; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1009227/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.