The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-09-07
WONDERS.
Electric Vine Gives Lieht-Esg on Egg
PIant-Lard From Pig Weed.

PIant-Lard From Pig Weed.
William Kronenberg, an eccentric
scientist, living in the mountains neal
here, is making experiments with a
new variety of a tree that he calls
the electric light plant.
Noticing the phosphorescent light to
be found around decaying tree stumps
he conceived the idea of utilizing ii
for the benefit of mankind. Planting
an ordinary wild grape vine at sew.
eral stumps, he was gratified, after
several years of cultivation, to see
the fruit emit a rich white glow.
Mr.. Kronenberg has one plant which
gives off sufficient light to read by,
and he is wiring his log cabin with
the grape vine. He says that if he
can develop the electric light plant
sufficiently it will come into general
use on account of its cheapness and
safety.
Few egg plants are being shipped
from this point for the very good
reason that the local supply exceeds
the demand. 1t is not the ordinary
egg plant that is raised here, but
plant that furnishes the real article.
Perhaps the best liked vine is the
Plymouth Rock egg plant. which bears
large, brown eggs full of albumen.
The eggs from this plant grow in
clusters of nine, and are gathered
early in the evening. When fried
they cannot be told from the product
of the hen, and on every counter in
this vicinity the hard-boiled product
of the egg plant is seen.
These eggs turn bad quickly, and
they are very susceptible to excessive
heat. During the recent hot spell
thousands of dozens were ruined in
the fields by being reached before
they were ripe.
Captain Paul Edmunds' prediction
has been verified, and the farmers in
this vicinity are much exercised as
to the future of their crops.
The Captain died many years ago,
when the oyster industry was yet in
its infancy, and he declared that If
folks persisted in scattering the shells
over the fields instead of making good
roads out of them some calamity
would occur. It was noticed this
season that the land which, for de-
cades, has been fortified with burnt
oyster shells raised crops of oyster
plants only Farmers who planted
corn find oyster plants growing in the
rows: those who planted beans are
reaping oyster plants. Even the po-
tatoes are shaped like oysters, and
the melons have fishy taste.
Star fish. the enemy of the bivalve,
will be used to destroy the oyster
microbe.
Thousands of acres of wild noun
tain land are now being planted with
pigweed, and options have been OBJ
tanned on thousands more by several
capitalists who see vast fortunes in
his heretofore considered worthless
plant.
Chemists who have analysed the ;
pigweed, so named because of the
'ondness of porkers for it, announce
that it contains the elements which ,
add fat to hogs, and process has
been devised to extract the cells and /
them into the finest of ,
eaf lard.
A building has been erected near ,
lere, and machinery is being installed I
o carry on the process of rifining the
,ig-weed on a large scale. I
While the process has been kept
ecret the great pork packers of Chi y
ago have got an inkling of the matter, +
nd agents are here trying to buy the i
lights from the inventors. The pack q
RS fear that their industry will be g
uined if pig-weed lard comes into
eneral use, for, according to the t
laims of the men interested, it can t
e put on the market at a cost not .
AZ cents a pound.-Phila- il
elphia North American. 5
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