ClS—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 2, 1980
Free booklet available on ethanol production «
GOLDEN, Co. In order
to provide information on the
production of fuel alcohol,
the Department of Energy’s
Solar Energy Research
Institute has announced the
publication of a guide to aid
in small-scale ethanol
production from farm crops.
Farmers file suit against Feds
WASHINGTON, D.C - A
group of farmers and farm
workers filed suit against
three agencies of the federal
government to put an end to
what they charged was the
unwarranted use of taxpayer
funds to finance labor
organizing and related
activities of the United Farm
Workers.
The suit alleges that the
Department of Labor, the
Department of Health,
Fulton
committee members
OAKRYN - Fulton
Grange No. 66 met in regular
session January 28,8 p.m. at
their hall in Oakryn, Lan
caster Co., with the Master,
Thomas C. Galbreath,
presiding.
Mrs. Clifford Holloway 111,
chairman of the youth
committee, announced plans
for a Grange bowling party
at the Quarryvilie
Recreation Center Sunday,
Feb. 3, 8 pm. They also
planned a code reading class
to be held February 22, 7-30
p.m at the home of the
Master.
The Master announced the
following committees.
Women’s Activities - Mrs.
Charles Wallace, Mrs.
Thomas Galbreath, Mrs.
Richard Edwards, Mrs. Ira
Welk, and Mrs. Samuel E.
Rhoads; Youth - Mrs
Clifford Holloway 111,
Debbie Rhoads, Mr. and
Mrs. Leßoy Welk,
Agriculture - Arba Henry,
Donald Trimble and Charles
Wallace; Membership -
Charles McSparran, Mrs.
Dons Brown, J Stanley
Stauffer and Mrs Rebecca
Quinn; Tours - Clifford W.
Holloway Jr, J Everett
Kreider, Mrs William
Rhoads and C G Mc-
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Phone (717)359 5863
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“Fuel From Farms: A
Guide to Small-Scale
Ethanol Production,” a
product of SERI’s Solar
Energy Information Data
Bank, addresses not only
those in the U.S. farming
community who may wish to
consider the production of
Education and Welfare, and
the Community Service
Administration went far
beyond statutory authority
and acted in violation of
their own agency regulations
in awarding grants of nearly
two million dollars.
Additionally, the suit
charges political favoritism
in the grants intended to
shore up UFW’s financial
structure and to assist it in
organizing farm workers.
Grange names
Sparran; Young Mameds -
Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Zug;
Legislative - Richard
Lefever; Hospitality - Mrs.
Thomas C. Galbreath.
Mrs. Howard Miller
reported the Oakryn Semor
Citizens had their bus full to
go to the Ice Capades at
Hershey. The weather was
ideal. They had dinner
together and had a grand
time.
Arba Henry, head of the
Agriculture Department of
Solanco High School, and
FFA students Kim Landis,
Tina Bucher and David
Holzhauer presented the
program. They showed
slides taken by David
Holzhauer and told about
their trip to the National
FFA Convention in Kansas
City, Nov. 7th to 9th., 1979.
Others who went were Gary
Eberly, Betty Trimble, Troy
Groff, Leslie Bames and Ag
teachers Ronald Althoff and
Arba Henry. They travelled
2588 miles through Md., Va ,
Ky., Mo., and Ohio. Mr.
Henry told about seeing the
Agriculture Hall of Fame.
Mr and Mrs. Edward Zug
will be in charge of the
program at the next meeting
Feb 11th
ethanol as part of their
normal farming operation,
but also owners of small
businesses, inventors and
entrepreneurs.
The 170-page publication is
available free to the first
100,000 requestors by
writing: U.S. Department of
Speaking for the principal
plaintiff, American Farm
Bureau President Robert
Delano said it was “high
time for someone to stand up
and speak out for the tax
payer who is being asked to
foot the bill for these strange
and extravagant grants to
Cesar Chavez.”
The challenged grant
awards include: $683,861
from the Department of
Labor to establish a Com
prehensive Employment and
Training Act (CETA)
program to tram farm
workers in English as a
second language and in the
skills needed by the UFW to
staff its various institutions;
$120,925 from the
Department of Labor to
develop apprenticeship
training programs for
farmworkers; $601,692
from the Community Ser
vices Administration and
$195,315 from the Depart
ment of Health, Education
and Welfare to purchase
equipment needed to
establish a UFW microwave
communications system
designed to link together the
UFW hiring halls without the
cost or ordinary telephone
service; and $349,115 from
the Community Services
Administration to tram the
staff of the UFW credit union
in such subjects as Umted
States labor history, Umted
States farm labor history,
UFW union structure and the
UFW constitution
Plaintiffs in the suit, filed
in the U.S. District Court for
the District of Columbia,
include the American Farm
Bureau Federation, the
California Farm Bureau
Federation, the Kern County
(Ca.) Farm Bureau, and
then individual farmers and
farm workers
Plaintiffs contend that if
Energy, Box 62, Oak Ridge,
TN 37830. Attn; Fuel From
Farms.
“We are carrying out a
national campaign to place
reliable information about
ethanol production in the
hands of every American
farmer, farm owner or
the suit is successful, the
agencies will be ordered to
disburse no further funds
pursuant to the grant
awards, to recover all funds
already disbursed and
illegally spent, and to
recover all equipment
illegally purchased with
federal funds.
More importantly,
significant legal precedent
would be established
restricting the federal
government’s use of federal
tax funds to support union
organization and other
activities, and to require
close scrutiny and ac
countability by responsible
government officials in
disbursing the taxpayers’
money.
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potential producer,” said
Denis Hayes, SERI’s
Director. “The expanding
support for gasohol in this
county provides an op
portunity to directly reduce
U.S. oil imports now and
increasingly in the future.”
Ethanol, commonly known
as grain alcohol, is produced
from materials whose
carbohydrate (starch or
sugar) content can be fer
mented. This yields a dilute
alcohol solution, which is ■
distilled to yield a highly
concentrated (greater than
95 percent) ethanol solution.
Ethanol can be added to
gasoline m proportions of
one part ethanol to nine
parts gasoline to produce
gasohol, a fuel which per
forms well m automobiles.
Auto and farm equipment
engmes can be modified to
burn straight ethanol as
well.
The guide discusses the
current status of on-farm
fermentatm enthanol
production and provides an
overview of some of the
technical and economic
factors, in terms of that
small or medium scale
Income £gg
over chick production
& feed cost (Hen-Housed)
$8.74
260.5
$8.34
258.6
238.0
$7.46
farmers can apply to their
own situations.
Tools such as decision and
planning worksheets and a
sample business plan for us
m exploring whether or not
to go into ethanol production
are given.
Specifics of production
including information on the
raw materials, system
components, and operational
requirements are also
provided.
A special emphasis has
been placed on methods
designed to maximize the
net energy gam over the
amount of energy used in
raising crops, harvesting
and distillation.
“This book is the result of
a coopertive effort among
SERI staff, DOE and outside
experts who were asked to
help us assemble thelH)
materials,” Hayes said.
Production of fuel alcohol
during 1979 was estimated to
have been 80 million gallons.
The Solar Energy In
formation Data Bank is a
national network managed
by SERI’s Information
Systems Division for the
Department of Energy.
% Large
& better
eggs
Feed
Conversion
3.62 lbs.
82.0%
76.1%
3.74 lbs.
69.5%
3.80 lbs.
Laying
House
Mortality
8.3%
9.9%
15.6%