The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-09-01

be raised to immense heights under
glass by natural as well as artificial
light, while heat will be obtained by
systems of great radiators. Storms
will be dissipated by exploding bombs
In the air.
There Is nothing particularly novel
in the idea of forcing house for
piants-every one Ia familiar with tie
ordinary florists greenhouse, and some.
no doubt, have heard of the value Of
actinic rays, either natural or artificial
as in the Finsen electric lamp, on
plant life. Such a forcing house as NJ.
Lanos pictures here is very pictur-
esque and attractive, but here he APP
pears to depart from the dicta Of fa-
nous scientists who have spoken or
written on the subject
1t Is true that In some parts Of the
country progressive farmers, whose
fields cover thousands of acres, have
covered parts Of their orchards with
glass and canvas. and in this manner
protected their young trees in that sea-
son Of the year when the weather, es-
Gus. Nothing SO ambitious as tile
structure and apparatus shown by NJ.
Lanos has yet been dreamed.
Prof. MarceHn Berthelot, who also is
a fellow countryman of NJ. Lanos, one
of the truly great scientists In France
to-day, has radically different ideas ON
the subject Of food of the future He
Is one Of the greatest Of constructive
chemists, and is not generally looked
upon as dreamer or romancer, yet he
seems to believe that agriculture will
become a lost art
Before many decades have passed."
he declares, "the entire conditions of
life may be changed, and we shall be
compelled to modify all our present
theories, social, economic and evew
moral for they will have no more ap.S
plication than the original ideas on
received the use Of his eyes. In the
first place, agriculture and all the null
titudinous pursuits connected with or
dependent directly or indirectly with
he reproduction Of living beings-ani-
nal and vegeta ble-that now serve for
the alimentation of mankind will have
disappeared.
No Moro Tillaxe of Farm.
There will be no more shepherds or
husbandmen. In place Of the farms to-
lay we will have factories in which
artificial foods will be produced, more
savory and easier Of digestion and as
,imilation than any Of the products
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 word,
nave been totally suppressed by chem
stry. There will no longer be seen
fields Of waving grain nor vineyards
nor meadows filled with focks and
herds, and man, ceasing to live him
elf by carnage and destruction of 9TH
er living creatures, will inevitably i'm
prove in disposition and attain a far
higher plane of morality"
Berthelot has not only pointed the
way Of the future, but has actually
one something toward Its realization.
YER half century ago he had already
formed in his laboratory the whole Sc
lies Of fats which make up one of the
three fundamental categories of SUBJ
stances required for the food of man.
Since that time the sugars and car
bons that are comprised in the second
of the two categorles have all been
similarly formed artiticially. To COM
plete The series, it remains only to dis.
cover the synthesis of the third series,
the albuminoids, the consummation Of
which Berthelot believes will be at.
tanned before the world is much older.
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