Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Announcement by Commissioner Doran that industrial alcohol leakage is now negligible and no longer a prime Dry problem. Commissioner Doran ordered a 15% cut in the permitted production of industrial alcohol for 1930, pointed to corn sugar as the most troublesome source of 'legger alcohol. Lest it be used for beverage purposes, painter's alcohol was ordered further denatured...
...date farm privy, let the farmer dump his field debris-straw, stalks, husks. They will ferment and produce methane (marsh) gas. Twenty pounds of pulped debris will develop 100 cu. ft. of gas, enough to light and heat the average farm house for a day. Corn stalks from 40 acres will give a winter's supply of gas. After the gas is exhausted the sediment in the tank can be purified and made into paper.-Illinois' Arthur Moses Buswell...