Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1919 — TREE EXUDES MILKY FLUID [ARTICLE]

TREE EXUDES MILKY FLUID

Said to Be Highly Desirable as Food ■—Also Converted Into Substance Resembling Cheese. Interesting mention has recently been made of ®the “cow tree," so named from the milky fluid it produces. “For many weeks we had .heard a great deal of a tree whose juice is a nourishing milk. Incisions, made in the trunk of the tree are followed by a profuse flow of gluey and-thick-ish milk, destitute of acridity and exhaling a very agreeable balsamic odor. Though we drank large quantities of it, both at night before going to bed, and again early in the morning, we experienced no uncomfortable effects. The negroes and free people who work in the plantations use it by soaking in it "bread made from maize. When exposed to the air, this fluid displays on its surface, probably by the absorption of the atmospheric oxygen, membranes of a highly animal nature, yellowish and thready, Ilka those of cheese. The people give the name of cheese to the curd which thus separates when brought into contact with the air. The milk itself, kept In a small bottle, had deposited a small portion of coagulum, and far from being fetid, continued to exhale balsamic scent.” \ .