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About 22 different beverages are manufactured from the rectified 

 alcohol. For the greater part, they are imitations of well-known brands. 

 The most popular of these, anisette, anisado, gin, vino de coco, and vino 

 de nipa, vary between 10 and 55 per cent in alcoholic content. 



In addition to this large amount of palm sap of which we have 

 accurate record, due to the supervision of the Bureau of Internal 

 Eevenue, a vast volume of fermented saps of various palms is consumed 

 without distillation. Since the internal-revenue laws place no tax upon 

 beverages which are not distilled (except beer), no estimates of this 

 amount can be attempted. Judging from the observations of all who 

 have come in contact with the question, the consumption of undistilled 

 palm saps must be very large. 



The production of alcohol from palm saps is, at this time, developed 

 only to a small fraction of its possibilities. There are vast areas of 

 palms admirably adapted to the industry, which are accessible and, as 

 yet, untouched by commercial exploitation. 



The comparative figures as to cost of production of alcohol from 

 various sources are as follows: 



Table IV. — The cost in dollars, United States currency, of the various kinds of 

 raw materials required to produce alcoholJ 



Source. 



Sugar beets at 4.75 to 5.00 per ton 



Sorghum stalks at 3. per ton 



Sugar cane 3. to 3.25 per ton 



Beet molasses at 15. per ton 



Cane molasses 0.12 per gallon" 



Jerusalem artichoke 5. per ton 



Cassava at 5. per ton 



Potatoes at 4. per ton for culls 



Sweet potatoes 8. per ton 



Barley at 0.65 per bushel of 48 pounds 



Maize at 0.70 per bushel of 56 pounds 



Oats at 0.35 per bushel of 32 pounds 



Rye at 0.80 per bushel of .56 pounds 



Nipa at 0.00389 per liter equivalent to 6.5 per cent alcohol- 

 Coco at 0.005 per liter equivalent to 6.5 per cent alcohol.. 

 Coco at 0.0062, 6.07 per cent •> alcohol 



Cost of the raw mate- 

 rial required to pro- 

 duce one liter. 



100 proof. 180 proof 



0.032 

 0.032 

 0.028 

 . 028-. 029 

 0.032 

 0.027 

 0.019 

 0.021 

 0.031 

 0.041 

 0.037 

 0.046 

 0.051 

 0.015 

 0. 0384 

 0. 0488 



0.058 

 0.059 

 0.050 

 . 050-. 053 

 0.059 

 0.048 

 0.034 

 0.037 

 0.056 

 0.074 

 0.066 

 0.082 

 0.092 

 0.027 

 0.069 

 0.088 



" Deerr, Hawaiian Planter's Monthly (1910), 28, 295, states that the Hawaiian 

 molasses as a source of alcohol and as fertilizer has a value of about $0,083 per gallon 

 exclusive of freight and interest. The cost of alcohol from this source Is higher than 

 the figures given in the table. 



•> Actual case of one distillery. 



' The data concerning the nipa and coconut palms are compiled from my own 

 investigations, the other data are taken from Bull. U. 8. Dept. Agr. Bur. Chem. 

 (1910), No. 130. 



