Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Drivm /or Ine independent 6j/ (F. C. Morrij THE PHOENIX 362 THE INDEPENDENT May 26, 1917 making of distilled spirits thirty-two million bushels ofcorn, three million bushels of rye, four and a half millionbushels of malt, made from barley, and one hundred andfifty-two million gallons of molasses. These are the officialfigures. A careful estimate made by prominent professorsof economics in Harvard and Yale Universities shows thatthere were used last year in the manufacture of fermentedliquors in the United States thirteen million bushels ofcorn, fifty-four million bushels of malt, and seventeen mil-lion bushels of barley. If as much as one-sixth of the grand total of these food-stuffs were to be used in the manufacture of alcohol forindustrial purposes, the saving in foodstuffs would be suffi-cient to supply the energy required of seven million menfor one year. Cutting off one-half of our production of distilled and fer-mented liquors would save enough foodstuff to provide elevenmillio

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