Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
LATENT POWER In CORNCOBS


standard raised fewer chemicals used and
flavor more akin to fresh corn than the
present pack. More corn and less chicken
feed would be the result.
What the cost OF attaching a distiIlinR
plant to the packing plant would be has
not been determined. The actual expense
OF distilling the cobs should not be greater
than cents per gallon. Inasmuch as they
are waste which now requires an outlay
to dispose OF them a distilling plant under
these circumstances would cost less than
an individual plant, A molasses plant with
daily capacity OF 10000 gallons is esti-
mated at $4,000. but a plant with a less
capacity would in most cases prove better
Cor the Gamer.
The Treasury department has recently
delivered several decisions covering sim
liar situations which are of interest I'm this
connection as showing the resources for
the manufacture Of alcohol which are al
ready in the minds of those who have
taken an interest in the subject.
A distilery at which tomato parings, pea
hulls, banana huls, sugar corn cobs ETC.,
could be used in the manufacture of dis
titled spirits must be constructed and oper-
ated under the general law which applies
to grain and ~rnolasses. 1t is not impossl-
VIC W itHluutl DIdnuy OlStlliefY with
certain additions made in the nature of a
cistern room warehouse II this can be
done there would be no objection to its
being used as fruit brandy distillery
during the fruit season and as "A distillery
for the manufacture of alcohol for dena-
tured purposes during the remainder of the
year.
There has been no change in the law
relating to the manner in which alcohol
may be manufact ured The distillery must
be constructed in the manner now pre-
scribed by the law and the regulations
The denatured alcohol law simply provides
that alcohol manufac tured in the usual
manner at registered distilleries may be
withdrawn from bond free of tax for de-
maturing purposes, and may be put upon
the market after IL has been denatured so
that II cannot be used as a beverage or in
the manufacture of liquid medicinal pre-
scriotionE.
Could Preserve Juices.
The problem of how to preserve the al
cohol in the stalks until such time as
they can be handled without interfering
with the. rush incident TO the packing sea-
son could be solved by the construction
of silos where the Juices could be pre-
served. or some method of drying look
inb 10 Tue SUBSEQUENT utlnLatlon OF the
product.
The fact that there are now over 100 arti-
cles of manufacture into which the use
Of alcohol enters makes 1t all the more
important that these waste products OF the
farm and factory should be converted into
marketable commodity. In addition to
these there are the three principles which
1t provides for in the form of light, Heat
and power. Already the manufacturer of
gasoline engines has made his investiga-
tons and experiments looking TO the near
conversion of the small gasoline engine into
one employing alcohol, with as few changes
as are possible. The portable engines so
much in use on the farm for pumping
water, cleaning grain, chopping wood and
doing various other farm work can be
made to do the work by a few slight
changes. And the farmer will find no OBJ
lection upon the part of the insurance
company to his keeping in his barn can
of alcohol, where r can of gasoline would
mean the canceling of his policy.
Another phase of the situation lies in
the converting of the corn stalks Of the
six corn growing states of the union into
alcohol At the figures given by the de-
partment, deduced by its experiments,
there was over 100000 gallons Of alcohol
in the crop OF 1906 in the state Of Iowa
alone. Put to use as a motor power It is
capable Of propelling a car seating seventy
people at speed of fifty-five miles an
hour for nearly 100000 miles. This is not
a theory. but has been proven by actual
The danger OF trolley lines
in the downtown thoroughfares of the
larger cities has given rise to much specu-
lation as TO the ultimate use OF cars pro-
PEELED by alcohol in place of electricity in
the more congested portions of the cities.