Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-07-27 | Page 8 | Why Thunder Sours Milk

air that does It. With an electric battery bat-tery It is easy, on the same principle, to sour the freshest milk. A strong current cur-rent excites the microbes to superml-eroblc superml-eroblc exertions and In a few minutes they do a job that under ordinary conditions condi-tions would take them a couple of days. New Orleans Times-Democrat. . WHY THUNDER SOURS MTLTC. To many persons the curdling of milk k a thunderstorm is a mysterious -and-snlntelllglble phenomenon. Tet the whole process really Is simple and natural. Milk, like most other substances, contains con-tains millions of bacteria. The milk bac-lerla bac-lerla that In a dar or two under natural londitions would cause the fluid to sour ire peculiarly susceptible to electricity, tlectiiclty inspirits and Invigorates ihem. affecting them as alcohol, cocaine r strong tea affects men. Under the turrent's Influence they fall to work with unaxing energy and instead of taking a ouple of days to sour the milk they ac-wmpllsh ac-wmpllsh the task completely in half an lour. It is not the thunder In a storm? that tours milk; It U the electricity In the t