Alcohol in Germany.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 7, 17 February 1909, Page 51

Alcohol in Germany.

In Germany alcohol is produced from almost all materials containing earbohy dates, such as potatoes, fruits, including cherries, plums, and other stone fruits, berries, grapes, currants, raisins, wine, wine lees, fruit ami wine cake, rye, barley, wheat, corn, dari or sorghum ete., but the greater portion is manufactured from potatoes. During the year just passed the quantities of the principal materials used in the production of spirits were, in metric tons of 2204.6 pounds, as follows: —Potatoes, 2,727.493; barley, 172.201; rye, 103,352; corn and dart, 104,347; other grain 23,772. Gallons : Cherries, 12,684: plums, 64,368; other stone and kernel fruits, 43,116; berries, 2927; wine lees, 949,112; wine and fruit cake, 272,207; grape skins, 6,757,190. From 2,727,493 tons of potatoes (100,218,204 bushels of sixty pounds each) consumed in the various distilleries, 78,-

445,157 gallons of alcohol were or 77.3 per cent, ui the total output—• 101.473,345 gallons. The potato in Germany has been brought to a high state of perfection by an elaborate scheme of scientific fertilizing and cultivation, organised by the Bureau of Agriculture, and by continued experiments from year to year, until the whole system of planting, cultivating and harvesting has been reduced to exact practical methods.—Consular Repork