Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-09-27
ALCOHOL IN CORN COB
Experiments Going On in Southern Illinois Prove That
Revenue Can Be Derived From Material Hitherto
Considered Almost Worthess--Miions of Gallons May
Be Made.

at $40, 600 but a plant with less capa-
city would in most cases prove better
for the Gamer
The treasury department has re-
covering similar situations which are
of interest in this connection as
showing the resources for the manu-
facturer of alcohol which are already
in the minds of those who have taken
an interest in the subject.
A distillery at which tomato parings,
pea hulls, banana hulls, sugar corn
cobs, &C.. could be used in the manu-
facture of distilled spirits must be
constructed and operated under the
general law which applies to grain
and molassas. 1t is not impossible to.
remodel a brandy distillery with GER
tain additions made in the nature OF
cistern room warehouse. If this can be
done there would be no objection to
its being used as a fruit brandy dis
tillery during the fruit season and as
a distillery for the manufacture OF
alcohol for denatured purposes during
the remainder of the year.
There has been no change in the
law relating to the manner in which
alcohol may be manufactured. The dis
tillery must be constructed in the
manner now prescribed by the law
and the regulations. The denature1
alcohol law simply provides that alco-
hol manufactured in the usual manner
at registered distilleries may be with
drawn from bond free of tax for de-
maturing purposes, and may be put
upon the market after it has been de-
natured so that it cannot be used as a
beverage or in the manufacture of
liquid medicinal prescriptions.
Could Preserve Juices.
The problem of how to preserve
the alcohol in the stalks until such
time as they can be handled without
interfering with the rush incident to
the packing season could be solved
by the construction of silos, where
the juices could be preserved, or some
method of drying looking to the sub
sequent utilization of the prduct.
The fact that there are now over
one hundred articles of manufacture
into which the use of alcohol enters
makes it all the more important that
these waste products of the farm and
factory should be converted into a
marketable commodity In addition to
these there are the three principles
which it provides for in the form of
light heat and power. Already the
manufacturer of gasoline engines has
made his Investigations and expert
ments looking to the near conversion
use of the gasoline enginto the employ
ing 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 few
slight changes. And the farmer will
find no objection upon the part of the
insurance company to his keeping in
his barn can of alcohol, where a can
OF gasoline would mean the cancelling
of mis- policy.
Another phase of the situation lies
in the converting of corn stalks of the
six corn growing states of the Union
INTO alcohol. At the figures given bv
the department deducted by their ex-
periments, there was over a million
gallons OF alcohol in the crop of 1905
In the state of Iowa alone. Put to use
as motor power it is capable of pro-
pelling car seating seventy people
at speed of fifty five miles an hour
Tor nearly million miles. This is NOT
d theory, but has been proven by act
ual demonstration. The danger of
troiiey lines in the downtown
'norougn-fares of the larger cities has
gwen rise to much speculation as to
the ultimate use of cars propelled by
aiconol IN place of electricity in the
more congested portions of cities.