NEW SOURCE OF ALCOHOL
Much attention tag been given in recent yeaxs to the question of manufacturing alcohol within the Empire for use as motor spirit. In the current number of the ' Bulletin of the Imperial Institute' the:"poßsibility of utilising the mowra flowers of India for the purpose is discussed. These flowers possess thick, juicy petals, rich in sugar. They are used by the natives as a foodstuff, and specially for tie preparation by fermentation of an alcoholic hquor called daru or monvsa spirit. A single tree will yield as much as of flowers in a year. During the war the flowers were used in ■ India for the production of acetone, and large quantities .of the flowers' would be available for the manufacture of alcohol, and would appear to be an exceptionally cheap source of this material, as the yield is high compared with that from potatoes and other materials commonly used, about 90gal or 95 jser cent, alcohol being obtainable from one ton of dried flowers. It "has been estimated that in.the Hyderabad Stat* alone there are already sufficient, toawia trees for the production of 7,000,000 gal 0f..; proof spirit per annum, in addition to that neceasuj for the local liquor lequicementa.'
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Evening Star, Issue 17394, 2 July 1920, Page 1
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203NEW SOURCE OF ALCOHOL Evening Star, Issue 17394, 2 July 1920, Page 1
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