Already gasolene engines are in use among the New Farmers. The International Harvester Company made twenty-five thousand of them last year at Milwaukee, without supplying the demand. These engines, in the near future, will be operated with alcohol, which the farmers can distil from potatoes at a cost of ten cents a gallon.This is no dream, as there are now six thousand alcohol engines in use on the farms of Germany alone.
When this Age of Alcohol arrives, the making of the New Farmer will be very nearly complete.He will then grow his own power, and know how to harness for his own use the omnipotence of the soil.
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