6. Rugs and carpets can be made of peat-fibre.
7. String and twine.
8. Rough sacks and mats can be made of peat-fibre.
Unfortunately, though all these things can be produced out of peat-fibre, it has never paid to manufacture them, and there are very few of the British peat-mosses nowadays where peat is even cut for fuel.
It seems much more likely that the end of these peat-mosses will be to become either agricultural land or forest.
Near Glasgow a large area of a useless peat-moss has been reclaimed and made to yield excellent crops, by using the refuse of the city. The disposal of such refuse used to be a most troublesome and expensive process, but now it is turned to good effect.
It was suggested a few years ago that peat, which is not worth conveyance, should be burnt on the spot, and the energy transmitted by wires.
That would be quite impossible, in at least four years out of five, over most of Scotland.