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barn may be liberally supplied with water at such an elevation 

 that it can be used with all the facility enjoyed by those who live 

 in the city 'by means of a, safe, cheap, and effective method of pump- 

 ing made possible by the alcohol motor. The machinery around the 

 barn and the stables which is utilized for chopping food and grinding 

 grain in the preparation of rations for domesticated animals should be 

 of a character which is efficient and at the same time without danger. 

 An alcohol motor placed in a small room separated from the barn at 

 such a distance as not to endanger it in case of an accident would 

 make it possible to supply power of this kind. Altho alcohol is far 

 less dangerous in use than gasolene as far as probability of explosion 

 is concerned, there should be no misunderstanding respecting the 

 fact that it is an explosive substance both when in the form of vapor 

 and when mixt with air, and all the precautions which are used in 

 the case of gasolene should be employed also with alcohol. While 

 the use of these precautions will practically eliminate any source of 

 danger, it is nevertheless advisable, even in the case of alcohol, to 

 separate the building in which it is used from the barn, which con- 

 tains more or less highly combustible matter. The fact that a sub- 

 stance is less dangerous than another is no excuse for omitting any 

 of the precautions to prevent injury as the result of accident. 



USES OF DENATURED ALCOHOL NOT DIRECTLY ENTERING INTO 



FARM OPERATIONS. , 



It seems advisable that some of the uses of industrial alcohol not 

 directly connected with farm operations should be known to the 

 farmer, in order that he may be fully informed respecting the industry 

 in which he necessarily takes so important a part. The purposes 

 for which tax-free alcohol can be used in the arts are fully set forth 

 in a public document entitled "Free Alcohol, Hearings before the 

 Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Fifty- 

 ninth Congress, first session, February-March, 1906." A very full 

 discussion of the subject is also found in an English report entitled 

 " Industrial Alcohol Committee, Minutes of Evidence Taken before 

 the Departmental Committee on Industrial Alcohol, with Appendices. 

 Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty. 

 Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office by Wyman & Sons 

 (Limited), Fetter Lane, London, E. C., 1905." The evidence sub- 

 mitted in the two reports mentioned contains practically all that is 

 known concerning the uses of denatured alcohol. It is not intended 

 here even to make a resume* of this evidence; only the most impor- 

 tant industries which are benefited by tax-free alcohol can be 

 mentioned. 



