Show WHY THUNDER SOURS MILK Electricity In the Air Sets Microbes Working with Wonderful Energy To many persons the curdling ot milk In a thunderstorm Is a mysterious mysteri-ous and unintelligible phenomenon Milk like most other substances contains millions of bacteria The milk bacteria that In a day or two under natural conditions would cause tho fluid to sour are peculiarly susceptible sus-ceptible to electricity Electricity inspirits In-spirits and Invigorates them affecting them as alcohol cocaine or strong tea affect men And under the currents cur-rents Influence they fall to work with amazing energy and Instead of taking a couple of days to sour the milk they accomplish the task completely com-pletely In half an hour It Is not the thunder In a storm that sours milk It Is tho electricity In the air that does It With an electric elec-tric battery It Is easy on the same principle to sour the freshest milk A strong current excites the microbes to supermlcroblc exertions and In a few minutes they do a job that under un-der ordinary conditions would take them a couple of days Employers of labor regret that electricity elec-tricity has not a similar effect on I workmen They say that If it had I I reptitiously they would use a good deal of It sur i |