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No.  4::T9. 
The  Great  Need  of  Industrial  Alcohol 
A  Much  Neglected  Opportunity 
IN  these  days,  when  prohibitive  gasoline  prices  are 
being  approached,  the  query  often  comes  to  mind, 
“What  about  denatured  alcohol?”  It  was  not  so 
many  years  ago  that  a  nation-wide  agitation  was 
created  in  behalf  of  this  type  of  liquid  fuel.  The 
government  made  recognition  of  the  general  demand 
farm  tractors  were  comparatively  unknown,  as  well 
as  various  other  uses  to  which  gasoline  is  now  put 
on  modern  farms. 
The  price  of  gasoline  is  now  soaring  to  unheard-of 
quotations.  With  more  uses  for  the  fluid  and  in¬ 
creased  centers  of  production  the  cost  steadily  ad¬ 
vances.  In  the  meantime  we  do  not  hear  anything 
about  denatured  alcohol.  It  never  was  a  competitor 
of  alcohol,  in  this  country,  and  present  prospects 
belt  of  Western  New  York.  There  would  be  no  ham¬ 
let  in  the  thousands  of  acres  producing  fruit  and 
vegetables  that  would  not  directly  share  in  the  won¬ 
derful  impetus  added  to  the  natural  wealth  of  the 
section.  It  has  been  estimated  that  annually  enough 
waste  product,  now  so  called,  is  rejected  from  the 
industry  of  fruit  and  vegetable  production  to  supply 
every  internal  combustion  engine  in  this  country 
with  alcohol.  You  will  have  to  read  that  more  than 
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for  a  cheap  competitor  of  gasoline  in  the  days  when  do  not  speak  too  well  of  the  future.  Why  is  tlii 
the  latter  sold  for  about  half  its  present  market  so?  I  wish  I  could  tell  you.  It  is  said  that  dt 
price.  The  recognition  extended  to  the  point  of  natured  alcohol  can  be  made  from  such  agricultura 
governmental  arrangement  of  the  system  under 
which  il  should  he  produced.  At  that  time  we  saw 
much  in  the  public  press  of  the  great  value  to  the 
farmer  accruing  from  the  utilization  of  his  waste 
products  in  fruits  and  vegetables  in  their  conversion 
into  denatured  spirit.  In  those  days  the  ratio  of 
farmers  owning  autos  was  considerably  less,  and 
do  not  speak  too  well  of  the  future.  Why  is  this 
so?  I  wish  I  could  tell  you.  It  is  said  that  de¬ 
natured  alcohol  can  be  made  from  such  agricultural 
by-products  as  apple  cores,  peelings  and  pomace,  cull 
potatoes  and  other  farm  products  that  are  consid¬ 
ered  of  comparatively  little  marketable  value.  Bo 
great  would  be  the  commercial  value  of  such  a  prac¬ 
tice  lo  the  section  of  New  York  in  which  I  live  that 
modestly  speaking  I  would  not  want  to  estimate 
its  probable  benefit  to  the  great  fruit  and  vegetable 
Fig.  303 
once  to  grasp  its  full  meaning.  The  American  peo¬ 
ple  are  suffering  a  great  dearth  of  gasoline,  with 
price  continually  skyrocketing,  and  at  the  same  time 
enough  residue  of  the  fruit  and  vegetable  industry 
is  allowed  to  continue  in  waste  to  spin  every  engine 
in  the  country. 
Some  time  ago,  after  receiving  one  of  the  bulle¬ 
tins  laying  great  stress  on  the  possibilities  in  using 
waste  products  in  the  manufacture  of  alcohol,  W.  F. 
Kittleherger.  of  the  Webster.  N.  Y.,  canning  factory. 
