South of Walchensee. in the Bavarian mountains, Germany, miners are quarrying a stone which has rare qualities. Treated in special ovens, it yields an oil, which the locals call “stone oil, and which they use both as carriage oil and as a balm for animals in cases of foot-rot, mange, and anthrax. Formerly a purely local and somewhat primitive operation, the burning of the stone has now become a highly organised industry.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21938, 12 November 1936, Page 23
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