. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 90 BETTER FRUIT July INDUSTRY PROMISES TO BE HIGHLY PROFITABLE CHEMICAL research has in recent j'ears resulted in the creation of a number of new industries of world-wide importance, but most of these have been of such a nature as to involve the initial outlay of a large amount of capital. This, however, is not the case with the manu- facture of industrial alcohol. This prod- uct, for which there is a well nigh uni- versal demand, can now be manufactured successfully with an apparatus so inex- pensive and so simple to operate as to be within the reach of pra
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 90 BETTER FRUIT July INDUSTRY PROMISES TO BE HIGHLY PROFITABLE CHEMICAL research has in recent j'ears resulted in the creation of a number of new industries of world-wide importance, but most of these have been of such a nature as to involve the initial outlay of a large amount of capital. This, however, is not the case with the manu- facture of industrial alcohol. This prod- uct, for which there is a well nigh uni- versal demand, can now be manufactured successfully with an apparatus so inex- pensive and so simple to operate as to be within the reach of practically' every- one whose business is of such a nature as to furnish the requisite raw materials. As alcohol can be made from a great variety of different products many diver- sified interests can use the simplified stills needed to manufacture it. Fruit canning companies are said to be the largest buyers of these stills, while saw- mills come second and chemical works next. The making of denatured alcohol is also a profitable industry for varnish makers, chemical wood fiber mills, fruit growers and packers, paper mills, soap makers, wholesale druggists, oil refin- eries, distilleries, garbage contractors, cane and beet sugar refineries and many other lines of manufacture. Chemists have recently shown that sawdust can be made into alcohol, acetic acid, wood naptha and oxalic acid, not to mention artificial wood and various special products extracted from conifers, birch and some other species of trees. Corn is another highly profitable source of alcohol, a ton yielding ninety-eight gallons of 188-degree alcohol at a net cost, according to official statistics, of a little over nine cents a gallon. Even corn cobs can be utilized in making this product. Firms interested in this new process for utilizing by-products, such as denatured alcohol and v/ood waste fiber pulp, should write at once for full par- ticulars to Wood Waste Distilleries Company, 1204 McColloch Street, Wheel- in
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