Ethanol I % (Continued from Page B 2) ethanol could be used as a gasoline extender. Then it remains to be seen just how good a fuel gasohol really is. Nobody can say for certain just how efficient gasohol is, Castagno says. But a number of major studies have been done and most show similar trends. In cars up to the 1974 models the gasohol usually shows better milage. In cars made in 1977 and later, the milage drops with gasohol. This is because the A OLD OR NEW lancastertruckbodies laneaster automobile spring co., ate. 310 RICHARDSON DRIVE LANCASTER'HEMPFIELD INDUSTRIAL PARK P.0.80X 4626 LANCASTER, PA. 17604 • U-JOINTS • CROSSES • HEX • YOKES • SUP-YOKES • SQUARE SHAFTS • KEY-WAY CUTTER SERVICE ALL IN STOCK - IMMEDIATE SERVICE j. jjx^SA-M.^ij 4:3o r f- , PHONE: 717-394-2647 800-732-0004 later model cars already are tooled to run lean. In many cases, of course, the mileage results depend on specific engine design. Still, there are advantages to producing ethanol on the farm in small stills. For one thing it is simpler to transport ethanol to market rather than grain, something Pennsylvania farmers discovered hun dreds of years ago and which led to the Whiskey rebelion. The process produces a lower cost feed. The by-product can be used wet, and there is the possibility of producing a biomass fuel. On the other hand, the capital and time investment is large. The small system may be inefficient. The distillers grain may be difficult to get rid of unless the farm has lots of livestock. It is difficult, too, to go to anhydrous production in a little operation. jDoes that mean the production of ethanol will be left to big operations of 20 million to 50 million gallons per year? They would have maximum economic and energy efficiency as well as lower capital costs per gallon and ability to direct all products and by-products to a lucrative market. But their costs could be higher, too. For one thing, they would have to dry and process all of the by products produced. lln the end, economic Realities probably will dictate the path Americans follow if they choose to take the ethanol production route. As Castagno says, “We can only hope that in the end economics and rationality will prevail over politics and emotion.”—CH New John Deere 260 Loader is the first agricultural front-end loader with automatic self-levelling bucket control. Deere self-loading MOLINE, IL The first of 36.2 inches, agricultural front-end loader All new 200 Series Loaders with automatic self-leveling will be standard-equipped bucket control to reduce with simple, single-level spillage of sloppy manure or control of boom and bucket loose materials has been operations. And all will introduced by John Deere. provide exclusive 40-degree The new 260 Loader, first rollback of bucket at m the 200 Senes of self- tachments to help capture leveling loaders put on the and retain full bucket loads market, fits John Deere 6- of semi-liquid manure, cylinder tractors, 80- gravel, sand and other through 130-hp, including flowable materials. The models with mechanical or John Deere-designed hydrostatic front-wheel mechanical linkage between drive. It has a 5,060-pound bucket and boom breakout capacity, 3,200- automatically maintains pound lift capactiy, and 12- rollback angle as the boom is foot 6-mch lift height. With raised and the load is carried boom fully raised and bucket to the spreader or dump dumped, the 260 has a reach point. The combination of 40- Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 13,1980—83 WHAT S NEW loader degree rollback and self leveling bucket greatly reduces spillage from pickup through delivery. The 200 Series Loaders also introduce a new Quik- Tatch mounting system. Using tractor hydraulics only - no tools - any of the new loaders can be tractor mounted in as little-as two minutes. Demounting has also been speeded up and simplified: lower the bucket to the ground, swing parking stanks into support position, pull two pins, disengage hydraulic lines and back the tractor away.
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