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Privy Fuel. Into underground tanks, similar to his up-to-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...
...Graduated reduction of water diverted from the present rate of 8,500 to 1,500 cu. ft. per sec. in nine years...
Lastly the Queen spoke with emotion, nay indignation, of Curacao-not the liqueur but the island where it was invented, one of Her Majesty's islands in the Caribbean. Recalling that Curacao is but 40 miles from the coast of Venezuela and that the Governor General of Cu-null was kidnapped by Venezuelan filibusterers last spring and subjected to indignities before being released (TIME, June 24), Queen Wilhelmina said with resolute wrath: "It is the purpose of my government to increase the number of our armed forces in Curacao!" At present the garrison of Willemstad, the Capital, consists...
...natural gases, from another 7.07%. This is unusual richness. The Government well at Amarillo, Tex., yields but 1.7%, the Helium Co.'s well at Dexter, Kan., 2.4%. A result is that the price of helium gas may be reduced from $35 to about $12 per 1,000 cu...
...dirigibles, announced last week the discovery of a new helium deposit, the situation of which was not made public. Helium, which is almost as light as hydrogen, has the great advantage of being non-inflammable. But, rare, it is expensive (about $35 per 1,000 cu. ft.). It is found mixed with natural gas. Hitherto there have been but two chief U. S. helium sources: 1) the Federal well at Amarillo, Tex.,? which yields 1.75% of helium; 2) Helium Co.'s well at Dexter, Kan., which yields 2.4% of helium...