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Show hreping Milk s.iTrel. 1'roni tlie .Vjfsft iMteit Jowrmd comes the following wisJuni retitlve to the uiuch-aioolcd queslHin, Why I does milk sour during thunder-storm.' thunder-storm.' Tne eficct of thtindesrtornis In turning milk sour is a mittor of constant oh-rvition in every household. house-hold. It U m,t certuiniy known what element in the air tin souring action on 111 ilk is lu ba direct) attributed, and t&osl people ale content con-tent toaiorihe it to 'elevtncitv In ithoair." An Italian savant, Prof (.. Tolomi. ha lately mule some experiments witu the v it u of elucidating eluci-dating tlie qu-s-Uon. lie found that tiie isissage f nn elootnr urrent diiutrfiy through the milk not only did no lusten buc actually deli rd aciduialiuu, milk soitreaietl not l-iux l-iux sour until frum the slittr to the ninth day, whereas milk lint so cleclrilled ts-cnnie nuirkviily hch! on the third.. When, tinw ever, tltu surface sur-face of ii quality of milk is brought cJouj under the twolwILsof a lloltz machine. Hi- milk sm beraine sour and thbeUectliealMUite-itu tlie ozone gencrattd, fur wheu lite dbchanje was silent the milk roared u Kb greater rapidity I when Ihe difharge was explosive, in the f'.tinu cum hon one l-lng fom-ed.tluninUieL'vltvr. 1 ho sour tng of ntilk Is gonurally attributed to the s'c.tsli ot a ferment (bacterium, (bacte-rium, Willi h converu tiiomilksuar Into Iictie acid. It Is poslble, then, that tile lu-c.neo of njanc In (he ait uvetliiv. ihe milk hastens the growtli and multlplicatloa of the, barterlatc In ievv of these theories H iv st?gited thit It wriW lie a good plin to Hinpl went the nuraerotis effbrtti na tielng r.ndo to fiud some wa ot keeslnq milk saeet to ! !ii electric current IhHUlilL 'CM would ceiUlnly I letter tl.an add. inaany kbid 01 chemicals to tile milk even though such things w ere not liarmful to the consumer, bt-eau.e bt-eau.e tliere is such a Iilb and crv always raised wheu anything tx-Irantoets tx-Irantoets is adtfeJ to tho milk, whether tiiere is suffljient cause or not Imsrfcai P-mryvn&u |