Pease-meal
Cheap grades of this valuable food finds its way into the foundry, where it is used as a substitute for flour. See FLOUR. Peat is one of the most important productions of alluvial ground, composing the soil of swamps, and consisting of the twigs, leaves, and roots of trees mixed with grass, plants, weeds, earth, etc., that have long lain in water, and thereby become decomposed into a blackish-brown mass that may be cut with the spade and dried for fuel. The better qualities contain about 40 per cent of carbon. In Ireland it is known as turf, where it is dug up, dried, and used for fuel. See FUEL.