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Show Electricity to Ripen Cheese. One of the most recent applications of electricity which has come to notice no-tice is that for ripening cheese. The use of electricity for maturing various articles of consumption, such as wines and alcoholic liquors, Is not new, but Mr. Gokkes' method of applying an alternating current of two amperes and 10,000 volts for the purpose of ripening cheese appears to be so. The treatment, as described in Cosmos, is continued for 24 hours, and is said tc effect In this short time a compleU ripening of the cheese. |