Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-09-02

De raised to immense h.,,,,.
glass by natural as we'll as au.,s u
isne' "hiie heat will be obtained ~,
sEstems of great radiators. stornx
WIN De dissipated by exploding bomb
In the air. ioS
Anere Is nothing particularly novol
III the Idea Of forcing house for
plants-every one is familiar with TIA
ordinary florists greenhouse. and som -
no uouot' have heard of the value Or
actinic rays, either natural or artificial
az IN the Finsen electric lamp. nv,
pant lire. Such a forcing house as NJ
Lanos pictures here is very nict,u
esque and attractive, but here no an
pears to depart from the dicta op %
nous scientists who have spoken or
written on the subject.
1t Is Il lie that In some nar+s 90 Al.
country progressive farmers, whose
heids cover thousands of acres have
covered parts Of their orchards w,4h
SlasS ana canvas. and In this mannor
projected their young trees In that con-
son OF the year when the weather GA
Pecially the temperature, IL treochon
'us' Nothlng 80 ambitious as tbe
structure and apparatus shown bv n
Lanos has yet been dreamed
Prof. Marcelin Berthelot, who olso 10
Ieilow countryman of NJ. Ianos ono
OF the truly great scientists in, Eranno.
to-day, has radically different ideoa ~,
the subject of food of the future Eo
IL one or the greatest of constructive
cHenlsts' and Is not generally looked
upon as dreamer or romancnr vo+ ~
seems TO believe that agriculture vii,
become lost art.
Before many decades have nassod,
he declares, "the entire conditions ~
life may be changed, and we shall ha
compelled to modify all our present
theories, social economic and even
moral for they will have no more ap-
phcation than the original ideas ON
llght TO blind man who has suddenly
received the use of his eyes. In the
nrst place, agriculture and all the null
htudlnous pursuits connected with or
dependent directly or indirectly with
he reproduction Of living belngs-ani-
NAL and vegetable-that now serve for
the Authorization of mankind will have
disappeared
No More Tillage of Farm.
There will be no more shepherds or
husbandmen. In place of the farms to-
.ay we will have factories in which
artificial foods will be produced, more
Savory and easier of digestion and as
'imilation than any Of the produces
which Nature furnishes US with at the
present time. The old problem Of how
to maintain existence by means of the
cultivation Of the soil WILL in a word,
nave been totally suppressed by chem
.stry. There will no longer be .seen
fields Of waving grain nor whey 9iai
nor meadows filed with focks wXIIi
herds, and man, ceasing to live hN5a
elf by carnage and destruction of otG-
er living creatures, will inevitably I'M
prove In disposition and attain far
higher plane of morality" n
Berthelot has not only pointed tn0
way of the future, but has actually
one something toward Its realization.
'er half a century ago he had already
Sormed in his laboratory the whole Sc
lies Of fats which make up one Of the
three fundamental categories of sub
stances required for the food of man.
Since that time the sugars and car
bons that are comprised in the second
Of the two categOries have all been
formed artihcially. To com.
plete the series, it remains only to dis
cover the synthesis of the third series,
the albuminoids, the contamination Of
which Berthelot believes will be at
tanned before the world is much older.
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