... that there wasnotvery much involved in burning a little straw in a locomotive engine, but when it was remembered that the subject of providing cheap corn was one in which all were interested, and that in those large tracts of country to which reference had been made, if machinery .could be introduced for ploughing...

...J HEAD ON THE CONBUSTION OF REFUSEVEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. 75. January 30,1877. GEORGE BOBERT STEPHENSON,President, in the Chair. NO. 1,504 On the Combustion of Refuse Vegetable Substances, such as Straw, Reeds, Cotton Stalks, Brushwood, Megass, &C., under Steam Boilers. By JOHNHEADA, ssoc. Inst...

... down ; sometimes there was scarcely any difference of level on thetwo sides of the bridge. The President presented from Mr. Pryor a specimenof Straw Straw Coke, and Mr. Pryor stated the method of making it to be exceed- Coke. ingly simple, thoughbut few attempts were successful. A mass of straw...