The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-11-17
THE WOOD OF THE FUTURE.
MILK, EGGS AND FLOUR WILL BE
MADE, EVENTUALLY, IN
FACTORIES.
A Large Portion Will Be Derived by
Chemistry From tht Constituent
Elements, Carbon, Oxygen, Hydro
oen and Nitrogen.

Elements, Carbon, Oxygen, Hydro
gen and Nitrogen.
Professor Berthelot, of Paris. at a
dinner given by the Society of Chemi-
Cal and Mechanical Industries, he
some years ago spoke of the scientl-
fic food of the future. According to
experiment and investigation, he
stated at the present rate Of progress
in the year 1000 coal, wood. peat,
ETC., will be displaced as fuel by new
and most powerful sources of me-
chanical energy He further asserted
that a large portion of our food pre-
ducts would be directly manufactured
through the advance of synthetic
chemistry, from the constituent ele-
ments, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and
nitrogen.
Our milk. eggs and flour will eventu-
ally be made in factories. Already
eggs have been manufactured by ar
tificial means.
AliZarin is a compound manufac-
tured by chemists, by means of which
a great agricultural industry was de-
storyed. Alizarin is the principle of
the madden rot, from which were ex-
tracted the juices necessary for dye
ing cloth and different materials.
The madden root was grown TO an en-
crmCus extent in Persia. India and
the Levart. From there is spread to
Spain, Holland and the Rhine pro
vinces. Il was used very largely in
continental Europe, and thirty years
ago its annual Importation into Eng
land was to the amount Of $500 600.
BY the new and synthetic process Of
manufacture alizarin has displaced
and supplanted the natural product
so that the nader fields in Europe
have ceased to exist.
Again, pure indigo, as a product,
has been manufactured direct from
its elements, and the natural pro-
duct will soon give up the ghost.
Theme and chaffeine are obtained
from different sources. yet as tea and
coffee they are chemically identical
in construction. Theobromine is the
essential principle of cocoa, and &C.
Goa has already been reproduced in
the laboratory. The pure nicotine of
the tobacco has been obtained by
Prof. Berthelot through the treat
ment Of salomine, natural glucoside.
with hydrogen. Tobacco is but Sc
much vegetable fibre in which nico-
ctr oil
fail not, the tea plants, the coffee
shrubs. the tobacco plants and the
cocoa trees will soon follow the mad
der root into limbo.
Vanilla, with which ice cream is
largely favored, is the product of the
vanilla Or tonka bean. Many of our
chocolate and confectionery manu-
factories are now using system by
means of which vanilla can be pro-
duced from artificial vanill etaoin "a.
chemical process much more cheaply
and effectively than by the old sys-
tem Consequently natural vanilla is
now being driven from the markets.
Vanillin in chemical constitution is
very nearly allied to the aromatic,
distinctive principle of cloves and
allspice.
Flower perfumes, colognes, rose
water, vegetable odors and scents of
medicinal value will soon be chemical
ly manufactured. Meadow-sweet has
already been largely compounded and
sold.
Again, in the near future, according
to scientific authorities. science will
develop the fact that nitrogen can be
utilized as a motive power to ulti-
mate or quicken the production Of
wealth.
Profits from productions have been
largely realized by concentrating
wealth being enabled to take hold of
the new and better methods of mod
ern manufacture. According to these
modern methods primary products
have been obtained free of cost. at
least of the cost of market prepara-
ton, by being able to utilize what
had previously been wasted.
A few years ago petitions to pro-
tect the fish and oyster products of
cur country were sent to the legisla-
tive powers in the hope that some
remedial or protective low would be
passed to relieve the bays and rivers
of the sludge acid which was poison
Gus to the water animals Now the
sludge acid products alone pay the
cost of running the oil refinerieS
In the manufacture of bessemer
steel and it's use in buildings and
bridges and railroad beds more wealth
has been added to the country in
twenty years than the public debt
war.
A recent inventor claims that he