Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-13

LIONS WiInOuL having 10 SenQ MS aic0-
holic material to a larger still for man
ufacture was introduced early III the
present session OF congress By another
newspaper man, also from a dat coun-
try, by the way. Senator Henry @. I
Hansbrough Of North Dakota sponsor
ed this amendment, which Is calcu-
lated to set thousands of farmers to
work at the manufacture of alcohol for 4
home consumption altogether exter-
nally, of course-and for sale.
The Despised Cob Valuable.
II the farmer finds that corn is sell
Ing too cheap to earn profit he can
manufacture 1t into alcohol We are
told that the average yield of an acre
Of corn will produce 1870 gallons Of al
cohol. This Is from the grain alone.
The stalks. which now are used for
fodder and sometimes burned or plow-
ed under, will make another hundred
gallons Of alcohol to the acre II used
before they dry out. Even the de-
spised cob when green possesses starch
and sugar enough to be worked into
the alcoholic output with profit when
used in connection with other materi-
ais The sugar corn cob liz particularly
saccharine and consequently valuable.
itsE Potatoes yield about 225 gallons OF
alcohol to the acre. This is the official
estimate on the kind Of potatoes grown
for human food. There are other vari-
cites, well known in Germany, which
yield 800 gallons of alcohol to the acre.
bs Sugar beets are calculated to give
24 gallons Of alcohol per acre. "A
bushel Of corn, we are told, will make
cents q bushel brings high price.
Frequently it is much lower than that.
Denatured alcohol, it is figured, can be
made and sold profitably at from s to
10 cents gallon. Illuminating oil
costs from 16 20 cents. Yachtsmen,
! motor boatmen and automobilists now
! pay about 221a cents a gallon for
! good quality of gasoline to run their
/ engines. A gallon of alcohol will sup
| ply more horsepower, it is claimed,
/ than a gallon Of gasoline.
4 But consider the byproducts of the
farm and orchard that may be used in
making alcohol. In addition to the
! corncob and stalk. there are apple par
/ ings, pea and bean hulls. tomato peel
ings, waste fruits and vegetables of all
kinds that are not marketable 1t
would appear that you can put almost
! any old thing except your last years
hat or last years birds nest into
] the still and turn it into alcohol
The farmer should find life still more
worth liying-still life, yon know. He
can get rid or MS smeary anu smeny
coal oil lamps and use alcohol illumi-
/ nants. He can cook with alcohol in
/ stead Of cutting stove wood. He can
4 run his feed cutters and other farm
machinery with alcohol. And all this
light. heat and power he can generate
at small cost from the products of his
own farm, largely surplus and waste
products. II all these dreams come
true life down on the dear old farm
should become decidedly more pleas.
ant. With no stove wood to cut the
farmer will have more time to fish.
A Boon and Blessing.
{ Ii There is the sweet potato, which is
/ exceedingly productive of alcohol The
farmer, raises it. He can cook sweet
potatoes for his table on stove heated
4 by sweet potatoes. In winter sweet
Epotatoes will keep his house warm
I Sweet potatoes will light his rooms for
/ the long winter evenings by the sweet
potato tireside Sweet potatoes will
grind his corn and cut his chop stuff
4 FOR the cows in the stable Sweet pota5
1oes will run his automobile TO town
I and buy him the necessaries of life
! which he does not produce himself
3 Verify the sweet potato. in the form OF
/! alcohol will be boon and blessing
In these uses it will give real warmth
i and cheer. not the artificial stimulation
4 which topers from time immemoria)
3; have felt from the use of the undena-
tured scraythur' internally. Hereafter
alcoho! proposes to help instead OF
4! hurt. In that fact lies a revolution.
Dr.5Wiley thinks that for the present
it will be Improbable to manufacture
alcohol in very small quantities. No
farmer. of course. can manufacture
any at all without first registering his
/ still and having the tanks locked by a
I government agent. Uncle Sam proposes
(! to see to the denaturing himself The
:! law provides for this, and if anybody
Z imagines that he can eyade the tax
4 which still applies to undoctored al
cohol he is sadly In error.
Il Unfortunate Omission.
4 One of the most singular Instances Of
/, punishment for an oversight was that
4 shown by the commitment Of an alma