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johns48b
my club is hqaving a big show this week end at the morgan county fair grounds this sat. we are going to let kids pick corn, cotton, peanuts and sugar cain. in order to push the show for the kids we are maning booths every day of the fair and giving out flyers. one gentlemen came by and told us he had his grandfthers 3 hp jd hit and miss engine that never had any gas or tractor fuel put in it. seems like he was using the engine to run a set of billows under the fire for a still. he was using the moon shine as the fuel for the engine and years later when they reworked the engine after it had been sitting up for 15 years they found that the cylinder walls and valves were in prestine shape. so why are we just now getrting into making corn squezzing for cars now?
John T
They must have got more "kick" from drinking corn squeezins then using it for fuel all these years I reckon lol.................. I think the trouble is it takes so much fuel energy to produce the corn coupled with competition for its use as livestock feed thats making it difficult. I think some are growing some sort of tall grasses to produce bio fuel which isnt competing with livestock feed.......

Lets tells the Libs to "Stop Global Whining"

John T
andy_b
Brazil uses the sugar cane remnants after the sugar has been squeezed out. supposedly that is the most economical method. sadly the largest sugar plantation in the continental US was located in the Florida Everglades and the government recently bought it to turn it back into a swamp.

andy b.
johns48b
glad to know our government is trying to create and keep jobs for people. how two faed can they get. now we'll be dependtant on foreign comp-aines for sugar too.
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