Show or Cheap Power Pow for All AllI I Some of Free Alcohol H IU XE H. In III till tIit J lI pt 1 crr SAM'S SAMS Alcohol Book Bool U ij UNCLE which wilch Is on n th the lie point of or being Issued seems destined to prove tho the most popular government So publication cation of or tle year year car Judging from tho the Immense number of ot advance ad applications Hons for COl it already received The Thc I. I copies printed as a edition will go so off oft like hot cakes scarce beginning beginning be be- ginning to satisfy the demand It Is to be he Issued as a farmers lH bulletin presumably because tho the farmers arc more mOIe l Keenly Interested t in the matter than an And Andio o i wonder inasmuch as fico treo ice alcohol although of oC much prospective usefulness useful ness nc for COI or vai various lous mechanical purposes In iii cities and likely to give Sho Important en encouragement On- On c to man many arts aits promises p to to tobe be a veritable blessing In parts of th tho country whet whet-c coal cOld keros kerosene le and fuel and amI other materials available for foi lighting are arc difficult to obtain Free alcohol however Is 15 expected nut lint only to warm the Carmer's dwelling dwelling dwell well ing illS hi lit winter and aull make his e cheerful b by the illumination it Il affords c but hut also tO toM relieve him from flom rein much o ot of his labor bf by furnishing power Both his is house iris Ills barn will be he libeL liboi- nil ally and ami I cly 1 cl supplied d with f in inK 1 mining witter by a small motor actuating actu- actu K v vI a pump and another r little en engine engine en- en gine In likewise tM 1 driven by hy alcohol will ill III 4 operate tx l machine for fOl chopping and 1 grinding Ills his cattle In lii various other minor ways nS alcohol will male make Itself useful as a n source ur of available l energy oh on Ih the farm faim arm and inti not I- I ImprobablY it may be employed even 1 sto to mill milk th co s. co Inasmuch as the thc hr i ni n t r f mine mine- that task tik l l In j mechanical ti I ic Jl means n nIas has been satisfactorily solved S j In Europe mowing machines plows s f e dull and and bIndel's run run- runby by alcohol alcohol alco alco- h hol l motors have proved conspicuously successful and It seems not unlikely el LI contrivances that before 1011 long similar J will be utilized on fauns In the United Unit Unit- ed cd States Stales Indeed all nil sorts of ot wheeled wheel wheel- ed eel vehicles may be bo economically pio- pio pell by this kind of fluid hulL fuel tuel special special cial contrivances for burning It being beinS' S provided A point upon which the the 5 S Alcohol I fooL Book h lays s 's stress s is that alcohol alcohol alco alco- hol h wc m It may be bc employed cd for COI or S heating rot for Illumination or Ol for fOI or the i of f power demands peculiar mechanical 5 A s' Blo to 10 GaM linc n S 1101 For example one can not pour lour alco- alco 1 ol lr tu the lit tank lank of a n gasoline automobile auto- auto E I mobile 1 and expect the car cat to 10 travel S- S To the lie fluid rapidly enough h t f for fol l' l mot motOr i purposes s 's there ii Is required S 11 neaily co 11 twice the heat demanded d h by byI I gasoline and consequently a modification modification modi modi- is needed in the construction of the engine But it is not of oC much involving only a u change I in the form of f the explosion chamber bulletin bul- bul S. S Alcohol cohol says S 'S the forthcoming lelin letin burns with a pale blue flame that Is IJ intensely hot hoi There is no k 4 smoke and what odor there Is can cannot cannot not be termed offensive To give the thc i. i f flame Illuminating power a mantle mantler r must be te used As AM for COL or heating heating- stoves 7 I In lii which alcohol is employed there are re several different kinds hInds alrea already y In tise te Including apparatus for COI roasting for roasting or peanuts and antl for heating J One Inn may buy today S fri fn the hardware shops i il h self heating which contains a small alcohol alco- alco hol hoi hol lamp r When heh certain earths such as asS S horia are tre Ie reduced to a line lino powder er cr r and subjected to 10 hi high h heat they i glow ow b brilliantly lU with an Intense white whIle light Taking advantage of this fact resort is had to lo the tho expedient of lIe de- thc tho thorla in such a n. way upon S white whito cloth that when the cloth has been heen burned away the mantle ma made e of ut it its shape If It placed place over overa a n ga gas ag flame in the familiar manner man man- ner iler th the mantle becomes brightly In incandescent In- In 0 tf candescent cent but the same me thing hapl hap- hap 5 pens l when the flame is furnished by alcohol L s s of or Denaturing Xo although Novy the new law which remo removes remoS S tho tax of two dollars and ahll twenty cents a n. gallon from flom alcohol tS used for industrial and domestic purPoses purposes pur- pur poses goes into effect on the first day 1 of the Coming year the government i i 1 4 authorities oddly enough enouch have not yet been heen able ablo lo to decide what substance I shall be employed to the thet thel I S t l' l stuff that stuff that Is to sa say to render It un un- drinkable It is a n difficult question Indeed because man many Ingredients that S might bo be added would render the product pro pro- i S duct impossible for utilization in certain tam tain Important arts For example If It o alcohol is chosen the tax lax S material can not be turned turne to account accounts s J t l In the thc compounding of pharmaceutical preparatIons preparations Yet YH the manufacture of or drug drus products pro pro- r ducts is is- isone ono one of thc the most important ii uses ue 10 to which Industrial ll alcohol Is In expected ex ex- S' S peeled to lo be hc put lUt Take Taie for instance t the great class of oC remedies known as tinctures which arc aro made malle b by soak soak- Y 1 1111 bIg various roots loots and herbs herb In spirits 1 j l ao so o that th their h active and valuable pt-in- pt c. c may be extracted Obviously the lie 5 addition or ofa n poisonous Ingredient like 1 alcohol would render the tho emI em- em I of tile tho fieo ft-ce article out of oC I tho time question for fot such purposes Then rhen rhenS S tb er which is also larl largely IY utilized In surgery and In various allous r chemical l processes It is made from alI all al- al I l cohol Cobol b but almost J almost any Imaginable denaturing de lle agent would bo be lil likely oly to l' l spoil it I I I S. S As to Extracts S As Asfor for the tinctures it ft may bo ho that I tho the methods ds adopted in making them thorn j f c essentially arc denaturing processes 1 I inasmuch as they arc not suitable sul for I consumption as beverages and that it will dismiss the matter from further m J I a consideration JO so o. o far as the they arc are con- con But there are alo ever over so mall f puzzles puzzled wrapped up In this new adi adt ad- ad t i r r 0 problem and a whole lot lotof f of ot oth h will bo be required required- to solve sol r J 1 them thorn To mention another case case- caseIn Ink In k point the flavoring extracts of commerce com corn 1 merce arc are most mostly al alcoholic solutions Sf if u and nd it Is necessary ry for tor obvious lout rea- rea I I Sons HONK that tho ho alcohol used shall bom bo ho boas 1 as pure a as ag possible Are Aro manufacturers I I of oC these extracts to bo ho allowed lJ by i special indulgence from th tho Treasury m Department to dispense o with the un un- pl pleasant a nt In Ingredient whatever cI It may muy mays v s be Imposed upon ordinary L It is the Treasury Treasur and not tho the Des Do- 1 of Ot Agriculture that 5 I all affairs relating to Industrial nice alco 1 hol The Tue Commissioner lonor of oC Internal Rc- Rc iii venue Mr Ir Yerkes s. s la us general manaI manager mana mana- p p- p I ger gel and whatever he says saY on tho the i 4 subject Is the law He will oven even determine de dc- 4 termine what shall be th the minimum size of tho ho still HUll employed for It I Is IA b by byno I no means intended that the individual i i i- i farmer shall bo ho permitted to manufacture manu manu- 1 i I facture factura his own supply of oC spirits moonshine fashion as one might say 81 oven even thou though h It be ho under federal sur- sur ur- ur 1 It rt would make mal too much trouble mind ind balden the Government 4 experts believe l that It would not hOt be bo beS S Ss 1 s I The agriculturist a should be b content to i the raw law materials out of which s win will make th the tho al alcohol al- al cohol coho and he hl will e have the privilege of purchasing It at a cheap rate rat Many lall SIl C h tl At AI least fifty denaturing agents n have havo been hc n suggested to Mi Mr kes C his or-his for hIs consideration among them turpentine benzine carbolic acid caustic caustic- soda and castor oil From so o attla an array arla of oC In he h has naturally to lake take a n pick one on comnos 10 to consider the lIme I he available a of If industrial alcohol our ono that t th they 1103 are arc al' al legion Jc ion To be begin heIn he- he gin In with lIh Is time the potato potato Ih the mia I day lla wh It r potato lola tu of lIf commerce It If contains ordinarily uld i lIa about a hou t 15 Hi I 5 Pet per percent cent III of which Is directly convertible con comm Into alcohol An All average acme of or land will ill 1111 lOt bushels bu hels of or potatoes pota pota- toes which at Ht the tho late ate of oC throb three and alf it-alf quails ts of oC alcohol to tha bushel maul and that hat Is I Just about the lie output should a little over eighty eighty- seven He gallons of or the lIw fluid There Then al' al arc amO however howe varieties a s lc or of tho white potato which contain 20 n 01 or i moio nor wI 1 cent nt of stilt starch and Gild are aie proportionately Iy more productive of alcohol Those Th r c lm been developed 1 in ii G whIr the ag mimi stations for fOI foma a good oo many yoa past pa t lw e boon h 11 trying to lb evolve ol tubers t U IS I'S as IS rich as n a possible In inthe ui the respect I p l mentioned without regard to their their Indeed the tho potatoes thus grown rown for COl or alcohol are arc not nOI cl being rather coors coat and Somo of them are arc of hu huge c sire and amid It IL Is 15 said fall Call not far Car short of oC 30 10 per lid cent of r starch Cn n n l Hoot hat Whatever cI In tho time way of plant material ma- ma will vill furnish starch 01 om- sU sugar U or em orven even ven cellulose lc which Is tho the wood woody tiSsue Itsue of plants is available a stuff for Cor or alcohol production Thus 11 it Is IR suggested sug SUI- III In th the Alcohol Book nook that the tho root oot of tho ho cassava a a which holds a n considerably bl Ja larger percentage tag tag-e of oC starch than the tIme potato ml might ht b bp profitably used in Iii this n way The Time Thera Thela ra la casina n nn n Is grown o over J large lam e areas of he LIme South Atlantic and Gulf Guif states and a n yield of only fOil four out I tons to the acm acie will wili furnish one olle tOil ton of fermentable fermentable ferment ferment- 01 able 1 matter 1 pIe n tI a about bout 14 3 gallons of oC alcohol The output can bo be much gi greater Ila eater however ever Sweet S pot potatoes tos to's c have never CI been uti- uti In tho time United Slates as a source of jf h In the Azores lan largo large o of them ate arc employed for Cor forIK IK purpose C producing a fluid fluid- fluid of of ex exceptionally cx- cx fine fino quality which is used t tc r- r fortify port poi wine vinc The They are c i richter richer in n starch than 11 while potatoes ug avel-ug- InC fag ng about twenty four pet per cent and made at nt the South Carolina Carolina Caro- Caro lina Ina a agricultural station have have- shown ho that hat an acre of land can bo be made to produce pounds of them One bushel of or set potatoes will vill yield over ever overa oora a gallon of alcohol a against six sev of uC a gallon for white bite potatoes Molasses of which we produce 25 gallons per annum I Is another a available s thle thi three gallons yield yield- lag one gallon of alcohol Tho Iho precIous precious procious pre pro cious cious- fiul fluid ml might ht also be manufactured In iii large quantities from tho the refuse of or the thc wine making fruit evaporation e I and canning Industries especially from the time waste wa-ste of Ics devoted to r time the canning or of tomatoes and Indiancorn Indiancorn Indian Indiancorn corn Taking Into account Imperfect apples aples and peaches cores seeds and what not It I Is reckoned that tho the refuse re- re fuse Incidental to the time preparation of oC fruits Co for I canning Is about twenty twenty- live per cent cont of oC the whole Indian Corn Greatest Source By far fat the thc available ll greatest soum-ce soum of or industrial alcohol in this country h However wc cr Is Indian corn cot which is 18 our principal cereal crop One bushel of maize will produce about two und and quarters throe gallons of alcohol But Buthe he time stalks and cobs nearly all of oC ofA which Inch A arc are now thrown awu away vay contain a great deal eal of oC starch stat and sU sugar bugar ar and if ie t th they could be utilized an almost in inexhaustible In- In exhaustible supply of oC raw material would be placed at the disposal of oC the time distiller Recently tho Department of oC Agriculture has been making experiments ments with a view to shedding lI light ht upon this Inter Interesting problem m and and- It has las been found that such r refuse can be made to yield high wines wines' at a co cost t not exceeding ee c cents a gallon lIon In tho the Juice of oC sweet corn cot stalks Is from Crom four COUl to teen out per cent of ot su sugar su- su gar The Thc cobs also arc are rich In starch and sus sugar x containing from six Mix to ten per cent of ot the latter and from el eight ht to thirteen per pm cent cent of of or th tho f former formel Ordinary Ordinary Or Or- dInan corncobs Cre fresh h from rein tho the Held field will yield from florn six tOI tomino nino per pel their weight in alcohol Depends on Cost Now the extent to which free In Industrial industrial In- In alcohol i Is destined to prove useful to tho tIme people Of C this country countr must depend primarily upon the tIme costor costor cost or of it It The Alcohol Book says that cOIn corn required to produce ono one gallon sallon of ot alcohol alcohol alcohol alco alco- hol costs about fifteen cent If another fifteen cents ho bo added d to pay the expense ex cx- x- x pense of manufacture attn ami ton ten cents moro for the profit of oC dl distiller and dealer tho the selling price of or tho the artl article le lewill will bo ho forty Corty cents This seems cems rather cheap but but In fn fact tt I t Is too high hg-h. At t tsuch such a n. price alcohol can hardly corn corn- polo pete with kerosene ket and gasoline s aVe save aVeto to a limited extent There is reason to believe however that moans will be he found Cound whereby the time cost will bo ho reduced considerably belOw helow bc- bc low this murk mark For FOI ruin attn l acm fieri cultural methods im be bearing up upon n this i H particular problem will sill he be improved so 0 that an act acre of land hand will bo ho made to yield a greater quantity of oC starch whether In in- inthe the shape of ur potatoes or orsome some omo other product Then too it seems not unlikely that the problem of f utilizing cornstalks cornstalks' s will vill be solved or ot or that the puzzle will be worked ell out satisfactorily on some o o lter lino line In one ono way or another the time price price per gal gallon i- i Ion lon IJ Is pretty sure to be brought down n downto to thirty thirty- cents or perhaps to twenty twenty- live five cents within tho the next dozen years rears |