Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1910 — USES KEROSENE INSTEAD OF GASOLINE. [ARTICLE]

USES KEROSENE INSTEAD OF GASOLINE.

Laporte, Ind., Juv 21.—Telegrams received from Winnipeg, Canada, indicate that all past known records for breaking ground with power plows were smashed at the Winipeg exposition and fair by two plows from the M. Rumely plant, of this city. In a test of steam traction engines pulling a gang of plows, the Rumely machine broke 25 acres of ground in seven hours. A Rumely traction engine, using kerosene, pulling a gang of plows broke twelve acres in six hour?. The engines, instead of burning gasoline, at a cost of 12 or 15 cents a —gallon, use kerosene, costing about 6 cents a gallon. The kerosene is exploded in the same way as gasoline. Dr. E. A Runtiey believes that it will not be long before kerosene will be used in automobiles instead of gasoline, because of the difference in cost.