A noted agriculturist, Mr. Bergen, says that fuel of an excellent quality can be grown quicker, easier, and cheaper from psb.ch-stones, than any other mode within his knowledge. From this source he thinks the settlers upon the Western prairies might furnish themselves, within three or four years, with a constant supplv.
This article was originally published with the title "Cheap Fuel" in Scientific American 8, 11, 86 (November 1852)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican11271852-86a