The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-06
Kerosene Coming Into It's
O,rn

During the infancy OF the refin-
ing Industry ono OF the greatest
/ problems OF the refiner was to pro.
duce sufficient quantity OF kero-
sene TO supply the demand and Mt
the same time dispose OF the light
ENDS OF the crude; nnmeiy, Easoline
and naphtha. The coming of the
automobile. together with the ever
I increasing use of elec ricity Tor
lighting purposes, has, during the
past 10 years, brought about a radi-
cal change In this condition. To run
sufficient quantity OF gasoline to
supply the demand, the refiner has
bcen compelled to produce more
Kerosene than the market would
readily absorb. This was especially
true during periods when the export
market was duh. Judging, however,
by reports from Mid-Coutipent re-
finers, kerosene and kerosene dis
tillates are again coming TO the
front. This Is being gradually
brought out by their increased use
for house heating purposes and for
tractor fuel. Bureau OF mines fig
ures show that there is less kero-
sene IN storage at this time than nt
any period during the past eight
years,
The first farm tractors placed on
the market could not be operated
with any particular degree OF salts
faction on ordinary kerosene or dis
tillate--especlally I'm cold weather.
wonderful improvements have been
made in the construction OF these
tractors during the past two years
and the majority of them now make
good the claims presented by their
makers; namely, that they can be
operated just as easily with kerosene
or distlllate as with gasoline and at
u much lower cost.
A Farmers Experience.
lot has been said about relative
costs of operating tractors with
gasoline and with kerosene. The
following article taken from the
Rural New Yorker is OF particular
interest as II covers the experience
OF Il farmer who carefully checked
the relative costs OF the two fuels.
Il have been using n 1920 gaso-
line tractor for the past eight years
and II has done a lot of heavy work
for US, but II has been very expen-
sive to run.
Last spring ] purchased sec
ond tractor, one that burns Kerosene.
but someone told our foreman that
gas was just about as cheap and
more powerful. Here we were with
"A tractor that two or three of the
best engineers In America had
worked upon for over three years
in perfecting It as "A kerosene burn
er, and this man did not think 1t
would work.
During the past months I have
taken personal charge of the trac-
tor. i have plowed so acres for rye
and / used kerosene. / was six days
plowing and discing the 80 acres
The following six days were devo ed
10 blowing another field OF IA acres,
and discing. Now as 10 the cost;
Six Days on Gasoline.
50 gals. gasoline at 25c gal. f2i.00 |
8 gals. oil at sac per gal. 2,s5 !
Total ..........,...... S2S.65 !
Six Days on Kerosene.
DO gals. kerosene at 10c gal, 5 800 !
I gals. oil at sac per gall. 3.7l /
The saving for a week by using
kerbsene was Sl0,94. That is not |
all; kerosene gave me more power. |
could feel 1t by the way the trac-
or worked. Kerosene has more |
power, more heat units. per gallon, !
han gasoline, provided you can heat |
I hot enough to utilize II. TO be |
sure, we made q test, plowing in
leavy clay. and the kerosene de-
'eloped loo more horse power than
when we used gasoline.
"One thing | found. however. af-
er the engine is well warmed. turn
Dff the needle in the carburetor
Ibout one-half turn. You Will save
Serosene and have much more pow