916 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Thus the sale of plug hats, for instance, is necessarily confined to 

 men of wealth because of the fact that alcohol of the best grade is 

 liberally used in their construction. The high price in these days of 

 trusts places them bej'ond the reach of the average man as a dress hat. 



The revenue laws of all other commercial nations of the world, 

 including Great Britain, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Bel- 

 gium, Holland, Russia, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Cuba, 

 Venezuela, Brazil, Argentine Republic, Chili and Peru distinguish be- 

 tween beverage and industrial alcohol used only for industrial purposes. 



HOW ALCOHOL IS USED, 



The use of alcohol as an industrial material figures prominently in 

 the manufacture of nearly 100 different articles. These range from arti- 

 cles of household use and necessity to electrical machinery, ammunition 

 and firearms. But few luxuiies find a place in the list. The more 

 common ones are as follows: 



Stiff hats, silk hats, women's and children's straw hats, smokeless 

 powder, fulminate of mercury, cartridges, artificial silk, picture frames, 

 mouldings, manufacturers of metal goods, including hardware, brass 

 beds and brass trimmings of iron beds, gas and electrical fixtures, lamps, 

 brass musical instruments, electric fans, bird cages, clocks, toys, etc., 

 coal tar dyes, celluloid, zylonite, fibreoid and all manufactures of nitro- 

 celluloid compounds and pryoxlin plastics, photographic supplies, elec- 

 tric generators and motors lead pencils, w^atches and clocks, ole-stearine 

 or steric acid, automobile power boats and small stationary combustion 

 engines, furniture and other polished wood productions including rail- 

 way and passenger street cars, carriages, pianos, organs, billiard tables, 

 burial caskets, rattan goods, and all polished wood interiors, whips, 

 trunks, shoe dressing, patterns, shoes, fireworks, emery wheels, pipes, 

 umbrellas and cane handles and novelties, chloroform, fusel oil. trans- 

 parent soap, etc., etc. 



-VLCOHOL FOR LIGHTIXC, AXD HEATING. 



The importance of cheap alcohol is now so well appreciated in 

 Europe that in all of the leading countries exhibitions to promote its 

 industrial uses are held annually. In a special report on the exposition 

 held in Berlin, United States Consul General F. H. Mason referred to 

 the use of alcohol for lighting and heating and other domestic purposes 

 as follows: 



In the department of lighting and heating, display of lamps, chande- 

 liers, street and corridor lights, in which alcohol vapor burns with an 

 incandescent flame which rivals arc lights in briliancy and requires to be 

 shaded to adopt it to the endurance of the human eye, there has been a 

 great improvement in the lamps and chandeliers for alcohol lighting, 

 which are up to the best standard of modern fixtures for gas and elec- 

 tricity, with which alcohol lighting is now competing with Increasing 

 success in this country. 



