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Show ALCOHOL AND THE FARM. After all the vacillation which has been exhibited with reference to this important subject, it is interesting to note that the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture has just published a report advising the use of potato culls for making industrial alcohol. In the introduction of the technical discussion the report says: "The reasons for limiting the detailed discussion of this bttlletin to the handling of potatoes are as follows. First, potatoes have been successfully used as a source of cheap alcohol in other countries ; second, sec-ond, conditions in this country indicate that large quantities of potato culls with the necessary starch content are available for this purpose 1 at a price which would permit of the profitable manufacture of alcohol alco-hol therefrom; third, the experimental work of the department distillery dis-tillery has shown how potatoes can be economically handled and practical prac-tical instructions in the methods of manufacture can now be given; fourth, this work has been done in a small distillery such as would be suitable for large farms or communities of farmers working in cooperation. co-operation. These data will, in our opinion, enable the farmer to convert con-vert frosted or inferior grades of potatoes into a source of revenue, as it has been shown by experiments that these may be made into alcohol at a fair profit." The apparatus necessary is illustrated and the methods of procedure are given in full. All techincal terms have been omitted and the subject discussed from a practical rather than a theoretical point of view. |