Show Molasses May Solve Problem Of Motor Fuel Thirst Thirsty souls and economists who have ha been been wondering what will become of all the molasses which formerly went into the manufacture of or rum r re remarks remarks re- re marks a a. writer in th the current number of or American Motorist will be 00 Inter Interested ested to learn that automobiles trucks and tractors ma may be operated not with rum nor oven with molasses but with alcohol made from the latter Continuing Continuing Continuing Con Con- tho the writer sots sets forth Corth American Motorist not long IonS ago aso called caned attention to the possibilities offered offered of or- b by tho the use of ot alcohol as fuel for internal combustion engines A few fe years ears ago aso tho the United States geological Ical I survey ur through Its technological branch made a series o of elaborate tests I o of tho relative c value of ot gasoline and alcohol as po power er producers The Tho most important re results of or tho the investigations In c investigations tI- tI I are contained in the evidence that well designed Internal combustion motors using using- alcohol or 01 gasoline will consume about an equal volume of or fuel per unit of or power The averages of or orthe the minimum consumption values give a like figure of or 10 S of ot a pint per hour per break horsepower from gasoline as aswell aswell aswell well as an for alcohol In this comparison it is of decided interest that the th thermal thermal ther ther- l'- l' mal value of or alcohol is only 66 10 that of gasoline gasoline-a. a fact tact which explains the persistence of or the experimenters better better better bet bet- ter than an anything thing else Heretofore the obstacles In the way war of ot a n universal adoption of oC alcohol as motor fuel uel lay la in the tho difficulty of or finding findIng finding find find- ing a raw material that could be bc se secured se- se cured sufficiently cheap to render cr the making o of alcohol for tor fuel uses Use pro pro- And nd now comes prohibition molasses molas molas- ses and alcohol In quantities 1 1 11 i I le 1 d tl e f o tali su an p y asu US LO U m I U l as US LII J v. v 1 plies of or that delectable dainty o of the grog shop shop rum rum In Britain where gasoline h is much more expensive than it I Is here her the question of finding a a. substitute fuel has recently recently- received renewed attention atten atten- tion A t committee has been appointed which hick after exhaustive tests of oC the tho subject Is convinced con that alcohol as motor fuel has great reat possibilities and that tho the b products by-products of the thc sugar Industry in industry industry In- In and many other othor substances yielding sugar sUS' starch tarch or cellulose willbe will willbe willbe be utilized in this fashion According to the thc British committee appointed to investigate the thc merits of or power alcohol the fundamental at attraction attraction at- at I traction of oC alcohol lies in the fact that thaI Its chief t sources 8 are found In the I vegetable o world t In n consequence tho the raw materials for the tho manufacture of or power alcohol are arc being heln continuously renewed and ancl arc are susceptible of or great expansion without encroachment on the I food supply Rather interesting experiments were made macl with alcohol d derived from the flowers of or the trees trec growing gro ln In Inthe Inthe Inthe the East Indies It is said that the sun- sun dried flowers lowers o of this tree contain something something some some- thin thing like 60 per pcr cent of or fermentable I sugar uSar and that the they can cm bo be collected and anal delivered to the factory factor in tho the zone of growth g at iO per ton tOil One ton of or there thedo leaves produced 90 gallons of oC al al- al cohol I Our lato late antagonists the Germans lon long before the th war h il developed a aS S system o of Industrial alcohol manufacture manufacture ture under which O CI every every- farmer could produce his own motor motor- fuel Cuel Tho The circumstances cir cir- circumstances that thal our own oil resources Pre ere i tiO so o abundant a may delay similar de development development de- de I In the United States There Is no doubt how however tow vcr ever that alcohol for motor fuel purposes looms loom more Im Important important im- im and more promising than ever |