Speakers ο/ι Itefitiiitfi Division"* P.J. Harringt€>i). » . C. OJJutt.J.
"Gasoline** program: II. Ilirsrh, II. IIΓ. FiY/r/,
Louis Mi t tel'man, II. ». ^;. Clark* C.
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API Chicago Meeting B r e a k s All R e c o r d s A STAFF REPORT
Jt UKCEDKD by several days oi" eommitt ee meetings, the twenty-sixth annual meeting of t h e American Petroleum I n s t i t u t e got off t o a Hying start at t h e Hotel Stevens in Chicago Nov. 11 with a program spon sored by a brand new commit toe the Committee on Agricultural Development. To this well-attended session was brought a threefold presentation of relations present and desired between the oil and agricultural industries in thi> country from the standpoint of three vital services farm equipment manufacturers, farm serv ice groups, a n d t h e farm press. ,). L. McCaffrey, president of the International Harvester Co., repeating A P I estimates t h a t 2 5 % °f America's oil products are used on the farm, predicted more signifi cant advances in farm mechanization in three directions: t lie» design and produc tion of new machines for work in crops where full mechanization o r t h e most economical mechanization has not been achieved; design a n d building of smaller lower-priced t r a c t o r s a n d tools for smaller farms; t h e a d a p t a t i o n of prosent or modi fied, machines to new uses on farms, in connection with his first point he men tioned a one-man hay baler, the mechani cal cotton picker, and t h e mechanical beet harvester. In foreseeing the opening up of t h e mechanization of small farms through production of small, low-priced t r a d e r s , he said that construction of prac tically all horse machinery has been stopped at his company. i.add Havslead, farm editor of Fortune, spoke for the farm press. A. W. Turner, of the Bureau of Agricultural engineering. D e p a r t m e n t of Agriculture, in giving an o\er-ali picture of petroleum and modern farming, s t a t e d that "'without oil ami gaso line, agriculture in this modern day could not function", adding that on farm, nonhighway uses of gasoline a n d other motor
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fuels may approximate ôl ,00(1.000 barrels tins year, and t h a t fanners use about 70,000,000 gallons of lubricating oils and So,000,000 lb. of .j:rea>«· annually. Confirming Mr. λ lc( 'affrey V views ! hal na-ehani/.aiion has boon largely responsible for the agricultural revolution experienced in recent years, be added further that "there i> no road b a c k " , and t h e n stated that over-all requirements of petroleum distillates for insecticides used by the general public in 10-10 were estimated at 75,000,000 gallons. hirst sympo>iuin to b e held was that on high-temperature analytical distillation under t h e auspices of t h e refining division. St ross was laid on various types of columns for laboratory fractionation of small samples. C. R. Reed, of the Texas Co., in discussing high temperature fractional distillation using the l '...-inch I·-well col umn, pointed out the suitability of the column for use with samples not exceeding Ô00 ml. In a s t u d y of the evaluation of laboratory batch fractionating columns, H. .1. Askevold of the P u r e Oil C o . stated that 4-inch packed sections, 1 inch in diameter, were used, employing three types of packing: glass-helix, heligrid, and perforated plate. Instead of determining theoretical efficiency a s based on total reflux, which no column a t t a i n s , results stated in his paper were based on a performance term, " p l a t e equivalent", and three fourths of t h e flood-point rate was u
