The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 22, 1919, Page 9

fatien X e - Low-Grade ““Gas” Is Big Problem How North Dakota Meets Question Confronting Owners Tk of Automobiles and Tractors ESTIFYING before a committee of the North Dakota legislature re- cently, a representative - from the head offices of the Standard Oil com- pany said: “It is true that the ordinary gaso- line produced today contains more ker- osene than it did. We aim, as do other oil producers, to include just as much kerosene as possible. Carburetors on automobiles and tractors placed on the market five years ago are not built at all to handle the present grade of gasoline.” The Standard Oil man explained, by way of defense, that there is not enough oil being produced in the world today to supply enough high-test gas- oline, of the kind marketed a few years ago, for the number of tractors and automobiles that are in use to-. day. The effect of the inferiority of the product that is placed on the market today labeled “gasoline” is, of course, that in many sections of the United States, where only the ordinary low- grade gasoline is obtainable, automo- biles and tractors five years ol1, though good in every other. respect, can not be operated. According to Doctor E. F. Ladd, president of the North Dakota Agri- cultural college, the present condition is likely to continue. Further im- provements are likely to be made in the carburetor, which will enable the use of still lower quality gasoline, and still lower quality gasoline will be produced, so that five years from now the tractors and automobiles pro- duced today are likely to be just as difficult to use, with the kind of gaso- line that will be produced then, as are the five-year-old automobiles and trac- tors of today, with the present or- dinary fuel. AUXILIARY “GAS” TANK MAY BE SOLUTION What is the solution of this prob- lem? Are all our automobiles and tractors to be “scrapped” in the future when they aré four or five years old? President Ladd thinks this probably ‘will be unnecessary. His solution is the installation of two gasoline feed tanks. The large one will hold the or- _dinary fuel supply. There will be a small auxiliary tank, Doctor Ladd thinks, that will hold perhaps one gal- lon of high-grade “gas” to be used only in starting the engine. As soon as it is operating satisfactorily the fuel will be turned on from the or- dinary tank and the auxiliary tank turned off. : The main problem in many farming sections has been to secure a high- test gasoline, most of the oil com- panies preferring, for reasons of their own, to push a low-grade product, al- though this is not suitable for old engines. To meet this problem the special session of the North Dakota legisla- ture has enacted a new oil inspection law, giving a preferential tax rate to high-quality gasolines, so that deal- .ers, will be encouraged to handle this ‘grade as well as the low-quality fuel. Household gasoline that under dis- tillation will leave no more than 6 per - cent residue at 284 degrees Fahrenheit, will bear no tax, under the new North Dakota law. ety High-test fuel gasoline is defined as gasoline that will distill from 3 to 15 per cent at 158 degrees, that will leave a residue of not more than 36 per cent at 284 degrees and that will distill not less than 96 per cent at 428 degrees. This will bear a tax of only one-fourth of 1 per cent per gallon. Gasoline failing to meet this test will bear a tax of 1 per cent per gal- lon. : The law was drafted after long in- vestigation of the subject, in the light of experience under a former law that had not proved wholly satisfactory, and after consultation with the lead- ing engineers of both the Standard and independent oil companies. POULTRY RAISERS HIT . ket prices for the common run of stock.” At the same time it was able to keep up the prices to the consum- ers, which ranged between 38 and 42 cents. try lost as much as $1,200 a car. The poultry dealers of New York evidently do not stand in fear of the government agents who have “breath- ed forth threatenings and slaughter” against the profiteers. CLEAN LITTER FOR POULTRY . An eastern poultryman with 440 hens found that when the litter in the poultry house was clean the egg pro- duction per day was 212. He' left the Western shippers of live poul- | Western shippers of poultry have been hard hit by a combination of dealers at New York. ended November 29 the combination knocked 6 to In the week cents off of the mar- 200 a day. same litter six weeks and during this time the eggs laid fell to 80 per day. He then put in clean litter and in two weeks the egg yield went up to over ADVERTISEMENTS Good Farming Pays H be interested in R\ i something which will S save labor, time, horse W\ power,8eed, and make bigger and surer crops. The Pulverizer, Packer and Mulcher, L machinesin 1, willdoall this, Its prin. ciple isdifferent from any otherroller, pulverizer or acker, it does different work and produces far etter results, and we ask for a chance to prove this AT RIS Y —— '‘ee illus| catalogue 3 F'g)enhlnl lots tgom\}:.bl:zl}g{?:{fi;‘::o:n:. n:.mfiln."::g ' ot wi jand owner. If‘l!ru. 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