Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-14
An ALCOHOL PLANT
Uncle Sam to Engage in Work
of Teaching Farmers Art
of Manufacture
THE PROCESS is EXPENSIVE
Cost is Not Prohibitive to Rural Or
CARNATIONS, INCONSISTENCIES Fed
Chunks of Taty Regarding Easy
Road to Riches Thru Manufacture of
Alcohol for Power on the Farm.

Washington, Oct. 14.-Uncle Sam is
hedged teacher of the art of making
alcohol, Being nothing If not modern
in educational methods, the old gen.
tleman to use the laboratory
method and his laboratory which is
just ready for use is admitted by all
corners to be a dandy. This lab" is
nothing more nor less than u complete
distillery where THE old gentleman can
turn out 80 per cent booze too easily
to mention. There he proposes to con-
duct two months demonstration be-
fore a cless Of thirty. with the idea OF
sending those thirty forth to spread the
CAD tidings about the ease of produc-
ing the real thing out of potatoes, corn
and everything but old shoes.
Primarily this demonstration is for
the benefit of the American farmer,
who has been fed large chunks of taffy
about how he will get rich out of the
denatured alcohol industry. But it's d
dollar to the hole in the doughnut that
the average farmer, upon sticking his
nose into Uncle Sans laboratory.
would fall down in 81 faint, and would
afterwards weakly inquire where he
could get the money or the brains to
build a thing like that. It's a confusing
display of apparatus to all except those
who have been brought up in whisky
factories and those who. thru commune
ion with their products, have become
po%accustomed TO strange sights.
Divided in Two Parts.
The entire outfit is fifty feet long by
twenty-five feet high. and it is pro-
~portionately tall. or Il little taller. In
one of it's two parts the average farm
er would not be entirely lost. This end
of the laboratory looks much like a
pocket edition of q grist mill. 1t has Il
mill for grinding grain. and various
shafts and belts for elevating it.
Then there's another mill which
chews potatoes and melons with as
great eagerness as the blacklist picka-
ninny. And all around are the evil
dences that our mutual uncle is getting
ready to grind a grist. There are $50
bushels of corn, s~eventy-five bushels of
malt, twenty-five barrels of molasses
and 225 bushels of potatoes. And IL
that isn't enough to suit, the old gen.
tleman had seventy-five bushels of rye
on the way. and he plans to lay in a
f~ifteen-ton stock Of w~atermelons. He
hasn't bought the melons yet. Fully
one-third of the population of Wash
ington consists of negroes.
But when our friend, the average
farmer, energies from the mill into the
distillery proper. 1t will be time to
produce the smelling salts. He will be-
hold a choice maze of pipes, copper
and iron. with watts enough to make
his head swim-all of it surrounded by
decks of varying height.
And the browning glory of the out
fit is two copper cylinders stretching
upright from the floor almost to the
roof His bewildered gaze will fall
upon a boiler-like arrangement. which
looks like the business end of a steam
heating plant, and which really is a
6OO-gallon cooker. Then there are
pumps, and q cooler and a whole out
fit which must be left to the census
bureau for enumeration.
Forty Horsepower Sufficient.
OF course it takes a little power to
run the mill and to stir the mash, or
mush. whichever it is. while the cook
ing is going on. For that Uncle Sam
has installed a twenty-five horsepower
motor. In addition, steam is required
for cooking and running the still, and