People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — A New Source of Alcohol. [ARTICLE]

A New Source of Alcohol.

Wood cellulose can be converted into sugar and used to make alcohol, but the compact texture of the wood makes the method expensive. The cellulose of peat moss, however, is now reported to have given more favorable results. The cellulose is converted into sugar by boiling the turf four or five hours in dilute sulphuric acid, when the expressed liquor is fermented, with yeast and afterward distilled. The dry turf is stated to yield rather more than half as much absolute alcohol as an equal weight of potatoes containing 20 per .".ent. of starch.