Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1896 — A New Plant. [ARTICLE]

A New Plant.

Tin? cultivation of the cassava piar, has been begun in the United States. It is a shrub from six to eight feet tall, and beat's large tubers underground. These are first heated to drive off the poisonous hydrocyanic acid, and they are then made into tapioca'and dextrine. It is said that the latter can be more easily manufactured from this plant than from corn.