The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-08-03

plant life Such a forcing house as NJ
Lanos pictures here is very pictur
esque and attractive, but here he ap
pears to depart from the dicta Of IA
nous scientists who have spoken OF
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
protected their young trees in that sea-
son of the year when the weather es
recially the temperature, is PREACHER
Gus. Nothing so ambitious as the
structure and apparatus shown by NJ
Lanos has yet been dreamed.
Prof. Marceln Bertheloj, who also IL
fellow countryman Of NJ. Lanos, one
of the truly great scientists in France
to-day, has radically different ideas or
the subject OF food Of the future. lie
is one of the greatest Of constructive
chemists, and is not generally looked
upon rs dreamer or romancer, yet he
seems to believe that agriculture viii
become lost art.
Before many decades have passed.
he declares, 1.-The entire conditions OF
life may be changed. and we shall be
compelled to modify all our present
theories, social, economic and ever
moral. for they will have no more ap
plicaton than the original ideas on
1: ,ho bo. I've
received the use Of his eyes. In the
first place, agriculture and all the null
titudinous pursuits connected with OF
dependent directly or indirectly wita
the reproduction of living bengs--ani'
nal and ble-that now serve fol
the Authorization of mankind will have
disappeared.
No More Ti1lage of Farm.
There will be no more shepherds OF
husbandmen. In place of the farms to
day we will have factories in which
artificial foods will be produced, more
savory and easier of digestion and as.
similation 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 a wcrd
have been totally suppressed by chem.
stry. There will no longer be seen
fields of waving grain nor vineyards
nor meadows filled with llocks and
herds, and man, ceaslng to I've him
self ny carnage and destruction Of 9th.
cr living creatures, will inevitably i'm
prove in disposition and attain Il far
higher plane of morality
Berthelot has not only pointed the
way of the future, but has actually
done something toward its realization
Der half a century ago he had already
formed in his laboratory the whole Sc.
res of fats which make up one of tie
three fundamental catesories 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 categorics have all been
similarly formed artihcially. TO com
plete the series, it remains only to dis
cover the synthess of the third series
| the albuminoids, the contamination OF
which Berthelot believes will be at
| tanned before the world is much older
Where Savants Disagree.
Sir William Crookcs, an eminent
| English chemist, does not heartily
agree with NJ. Berthelot's picture OF
the future. II do not believe that any
great change in Authorization is imml
nent." he says. Take this question OF
what people have described as chem,
| ical diet" lie suggests. we have
been told by numerous prophets that
mankind will eventually subsist upon
pills and tabloids in place of the sue
stantial food of today. Think of what
dinner party would be like under
such conditions. Why, the whole mas
ticatory and digestive functions o!
man would have to be immensely mod
| fled" Sir William Ramsay admits
that with the long-sought albuninoi1s
it is not impossible that Z chemist OF
the future might compound n passablt
steak or chop; but" he adds, "a
what a cost, what a waste OF skill and
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