Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-18
TIE WOOD OF The FUTURE.
MILK, EGGS AND FLOUR WILL BE
MADE, EVENTUALLY, IN
FACTORIES.

gen and Nitrogen.
Professor Berthelot, of Paris. at {
dinner given by the Society of Chemi
cal and Mechanical Industries, he
some years ago spoke of the scienti
nc food of the future According tx
experiment and investigation, hi
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 large portion of our food pro
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
| tif1cial 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 root, from which were ex-
| tracted the juices necessary for dye
ing cloth and different materials
The madden root was grown to an en-
| ormous extent in Persia, India and
the Levant. From there is spread to
Spain, Holland and the Rhine pro
vinces. 1t was used very largely in
continental Europe, and thirty years
ago its annual importation into Eng
land was to the amolnt of $500. 900.
BY the new and synthetic process OF
manufacture ahzarin has displaced
and supplanted the natural product
SO that the madden fields in Europe
have ceased to exist.
Again, pure indigo, as a product,
has been manufactured direct from
us 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 co
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, a natural glucoside.
with hydrogen. Tobacco is but so
much vegetable fibre in which nico-
tine is largely stored. So, if all signs
fall 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 a 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-
TEN. 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 metaods primary products
have been obtained free of cost, at
least of the cost of market prepare
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
our 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 reineries.
In the manufacture of bessemer
steel and its use in buildings and
bridges and railroad beds more wealth
has been added to the country in
twenty years than the public debt
amounted to at the close of the civil
war
A recent inventor claims that he
can take two tons of coal, eight hun
dred and sixty-six pounds of crude
oil and make a profit of thirty dol
lars or so by passing them through
his furnace, at the other end having
fuel gas as a by-product equal in
heating intensity to five-eighths of the
original material and Of greater util-
ity to many industrial enterprises.
In the accomplishment of such
schemes every industry of the world
in which fuel is an important factor
will be reyolItionized. It means the
capture Of nitrogen, which makes up
more than three fourths of the air,
the putting of it to productive uses
in the soil for the benefit Of man
From the Arena
Unprotected Man.
The fact is that if we examine our
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