Show doe ioe s lightning sour tile lie etisa it is a well ivell known fact that milk is es especially ally apt to sour during the prevalence of a ti thunderstorm I 1 0 0 nn and from this it has been ault surmise I 1 mastil d that tho the electric discharge beld some mysterious sway over the lacteal fluid an italian experimenter peri menter one Ao professor fessor G lias has been making trials of various sorts the object being to throw somo some light on electric influence over milk molecules in III liia his first experience he lie passed an electric discharge dif diE chargo charge from a holtz machine bo be tapen two balls of platinum hanging banging arm br ha pearl in la a I 1 t I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 17 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 a quart of 1 acou inick milk sc secondly ondry 1 by y bend bena ins ing a current between two strips of platinum at the bottom of a V tube filled with the ame fluid thirdly by subjecting milk in a test tubo tube to tho the action of ns trong battery current through a silk covered copper wiro wound spirally around tho the tube in III each ono of these experiments which were as thorough as any lover 0 of f science could wish it was proved that act acidulation 1 I U lation of tho the milk was delayed instead of hastened as had hall been expected three equal portions of milk from tho the same milking thus treated began to grow acid on tho tile seventh tho tile ninth and tho the sixth days respectively whilo other portions of it which had not been treated with electricity was rankly acid on the evening of tho the third day having thus disproved the popular theory of lightning being the direct cause of tho the acidification of milk professor tried ozone and alli found therein the mystic agent of milk souring in liis ids second trial of ozone he lie brought tho the surface of a quantity of milk close to the two balls of tho the machine used and arid tho the fluid almost instantly became acid in consequence alere at last a mystery that lias has puzzled professors and peasants alike has been mado made plain st louis republic |