The Goodland republic., 1907-01-25

cOhof for home consunnpd pdon-alto-
gether externally. OF ccurse-and for
sale
me Despissd Cob valuable.
If the farmer finds that corn Is sell
ing too cheap to earn a profit he can
manufacture IL into alcohol. We are
told that the average yield OF an acre
OF corn wiz produce 80 gallons o.
alcohol This is from the grain alone
The stalks, which now are used for
fodder and sometimes burned or piOw-
ed under, viii make another hundred
gallons OF alcohol to the acre If used
before they dry out Even the de-
spised cob when green possesses
starch and sugar enough to be work
ed into the alcoholic output with pro-
materials. The sugar corn cob is par
ticularly saccharine and consequently
valuable.
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
varieties, well known in Germany,
which yield 500 gallons OF alcohol to
the acre.
Sugar beets are calculated to give
224 gallons Of alcohol per acre A
bushel Of corn, we are told, viii make
i've gallons OF alcohol. Corn at 40
cents a bushel brings a high price
Frequently IT IS much lower than that
Denatured alcohol, it is figured can be
made and sold prohtably at from 8 20
10 cents q gallon. Illuminating oil
costs from Is to 20 cents. Yachtsmen,
motor boatmen and automobolists now
pay about 227k cents q gallon for a
TO AT
engines. A gallon Of alcohol viii sup
ply more horsepower, it is claimed.
than a gallon Of gasoline.
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
parings, pea and bean hulls, tomato
peelings. waste fruits and vegetables
| Of all kinds that are not marketable.
1t would appear that you can put al
most any old thing except your last
years hat or a last years birds nest
/ into the still and turn il into alcohol
The farmer should find life still
more worth Ifving-sti1 life, you
know. He can get rid Of his smeary
and smelly coal oil lamps and use al
/ cohol illuminants. He can cook with
| alcohol instead Of cutting stove wood.
/ He can run rs feed cutters and other
/ farm machinery with alcohol. And
all this light, heat and power he can
| generate at small cost from the pro-
ducts Of his own farm, largely sur
/ plus and waste products If all these
| dreams come true, life down on the
| dear old farm should become decided
/ " more pleasant With no stove wood
to cut the farmer will have more time
to fish.
a Boon and a Blessing.
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 heat
ed by sweet potatoes. In winter sweet
potatoes viii keep his house warm.
Sweet potatoes will light his rooms for
the long winter evenings by the sweet
potato fireside. Sweet potatoes viii
grind his corn and cut his chop stuff
for the cows in the stable. Sweet pota-
toes will run his automobile to town
and buy him the necessaries Of life
which he does not produce himself
Verify the sweet potato in the form Of
alcohol, viii be a boon and blessing.
In these uses it viii give real warmth
and cheer, not the artificial stimula-
ton which tOpers from time immem-
orial have felt from the use Of the
undenatured "crythur" internally.
Hereafter alcohol proposes to help in
stead Of hurt. In that fact lies a re-
volutiOn.
DR.. Wiley thinks that for the pres
ent it will be improbable to manu-
facture alcohol in very small Quand-
ties. No farmer, Of course, can man
ufacture any at all without first reg
istering his still and having the tanks
locked by a government agent Uncle
Sam proposes to see to the denaturing
himself. The law provides for this,
and If anybody imagines that he can
evade the tax which still applies to
undoctOred alcohol he is sadly in er-
ror.