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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON

Rappahannock News Staff WViler

With a permit from the federal government and a variance issued last Thursday by the Rappahannock Board of Zoning Appeals, Donald M. Davies is ready to operate the county’s first legal still.

"I regret very much to say that what little alcohol is going to be produced, ain’t gonna be drinkable." Davies joked.

Instead. Davies explained to the BZA, he will be experimenting with new methods of reducing the time and cost of turning agricultural products into fuel.

Davies said he plans to field test a “fast fermenting device” developed in Berkeley. Calif., laboratories “by the UKS^ DepawmeM of Agriculture for reducing the fermentation time of corn

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