Show Another Belief Blasted Science has disproved the rural belief that thunder sours milk It is now known that the souring results from a fungus growth and that this fungus is peculiarly fatal to nursing children The old time rural belief was that the concussion con-cussion from thunder acted mechanically upon the milk and first soured and then solidified it The theory is a plausiole one easily derived from observing one set of facts without knowing about the existence of others more important to the situation It happens that milk does sour during or just after thunderstorms because > the atmospheric conditions then prevailing are usually of a kind favorable favor-able to the rapid development of the fungus fun-gus growth that soursmilk New Albany Ledger |