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It Exudes a Sap that is| Very Much Like Milk.,OF EXCELLENT QUALITYPerfectly Wholesome and VeryNourlnhtaf—PosMMe* an Agree*able Taste-Tropical Tree* andPlants Which Are to a certain le* grw Rivals of Coir*.The cow tree of Venezuela yield* a milk of good quality. It forma large forest* along the sea coasts of that country. It* milk, which i* obtained by making Indsionq In the trunk, so closely resembles that from the cow, both in appearance and quality that is commonly used by tbo natives at an alrttcle of food. Unlike many, other vegetable milks it Is perfectly wholesome and very nourishing, possessing an agreeable taste, like that of sweet cream, and a pleasant balsamic odor, says the Lonaon Telegraph. Its only unpleasant property la a! slight amount of stickisess. The chemical analysis of this milk has shown it to possess a composition closely resembling some animal substances, and, Uke animal milk. It, quickly forms a yellow, cheesy scum upon Its surface, and after a few days exposure to the atmosphere turns sour. Ceylon also possess a cow tree, the mITk sap of which according to Bur.-mann's ‘’Narratives, Is u*ed by the Clngalesse exactly in the same way |J that we use milk.Who has not seen our indigenous wolf’s milk or spurge, the white, milky juice of whloh popular superstition recogxmend* as an application to jdsstroy warts. The spurge genus, which gives its name to the order EupUoorblaceae, comprises - a large number of species distributed throughout the whole world.'Caoutchouc Is the name! given to the elastic gummy substance which is popularly known as India rubber, but which Is In modem commerce the Inspissated juice - of ■ various trees and plants growing in tropical climates, where ihe hea^ seems to exert a distinct j influence In its perfect formation. The tree that originally furnished lcis a common one In the forests of Para,known botanlcally as Hevea Brazll-lessis, and it is owing to a Frenchman,that It became such an Important matter in our manufactures and commerce. The rubber exists in the tree In the form of a thin white milk, and Is obtained by making !n-ccislons in the trunk from which It exudes; It Is collected in little earthen vessels and afterwards converted Into the black homogeneous elastic mass familiar to us as rubber, by being dried over a smoking Are. The trees are capped during the dry season, the milky Auld is then coagulated by the smoking process, and soon becomes solid. The discovery of the art of vulcanizing this material and the introduction of gutta perch a created an extensive branch in our manufactures.Other trees possessing this milky fluid are grown In various parts, and Include Castilloa elastlca, wplah produces Panama rubber, and Ficus elastlca, largely grown in the east for the purpose. Funtumia elastlca and Landolphia, a woody climber, are West African trees. Manlhot Glazlovil produces the Ceara rubber, and is closely related to the plant which provides the well-known commodity tapioca. 'Then we have Ouayull rubber, obtained from an herbaceous plant of the sunflower order, named Parthenium argenta-num. Another species yields a milky juice, in which (the natives dip the points of their fighting appliances. In ths forests of British Guiana grows a tree which the natives call Hya Hya. Its bark and pith are so rich in milk that a moderate sized stem thrown Into a forest brook colors the water quite white and milky. The Juice instead of being acrid and drastic, Uke that of many allied genera. Is bland and wholesome, and when lrawn from the stem yields a thick, sweet milk, like that from the oow, sad is largely used as a refreshing drink. Ths breadfruit tree Is an important staple of the tropS+il islands in the Pacific ocean. Besidos the fruit, which Is cooked and eaten, the mtlk-sap is turned to account in tfbe form of a viscous latex.On a tree of giant girth, but seldom more thgn 15 feet high, rest the. umbrageous crown branches of the banyan or holy fig of India, so called from Its dedication to religious observances; these branches often run 100 feet horizontally out from the trunk, sending down to the ground at intervals long straight roots, which quickly penetrate and take firm hold, thus becoming props to the long branches. The Brahmins Mise the leaves as plates from which to eat, and bird lime is manufactured from the tenacious milk juice which exudes.The garden lettuce contains like other members of the family, a quantity of milk juico with narcotic properties. This Is more fully developed when the plant Is permitted to throw up a flower stalk.
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Saint Regis Falls Adirondack News
Saint Regis Falls, New York, US
Sat, Jul 25, 1908
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