Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-17
Stubborn Cream.

Stubborn cream Is peculiar result of
dryer food, cows long in milk and we'll
! advanced in CESSATION, three things that
contribute to smaller globules of fat in the
milk, more albuminous matter to contend
with, and what may be called dryness of
the cream. Cows that are provided with
an abundance of succulent forage in late
fall and winter, give milk not greatly
different in churnability from summer.
The remedy for stubborn cream is to add
little warm water to the milk when it is
set out; churn few degrees warmer than
usual and slightly dilute the cream when
the churn starts. A noted professor says
| that diiuting cream does no good, ard
then says that he used warm skim milk
for the purpose. Of course he failed as
he was adding more of the same kind of
''sticky substance" to the cream that was
occasioning the trouble of stubbornness.
Water liquefes this albuminous substance
ard helps to set free the g'obues from this
embrace of albumen. Often cream in the
winter foams, and it is simply because of
this same albumen frothing, the same as
when whites of eggs are BEATEN spoonful
Of water will upset" plate of frost
ing" and two quarts of water at 100 de-
grees will stop tie foaming of the cream
Gar den1nby Electricity.
Experiments upon electricity as affect
ing plant growth have been going on for
some time at the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural college at Amherst, and Prof War
ner, who is giving great attention to the
matter, IS preparing paper for an ae-
gricultural b l.etin which VII not only
embody the results of his own experience,
but will give the Investigations lately
made In foreign countries.
Intense interest has has been aroused
among Massachusetts, farmers and agsi-
cultuIists by the publication of bulletin
from the agricultural station Of Cornell
university n which the declaration is
made that The experiment shows that the
electric light can be prohtably used in
the growing of plants. In the light of
this announcement the publication of
Prof. Warner experiments will be looked
forward to with considerable interest
Prof. Warner has conducted his investigg-
tions with great care and thoroughness.
and few persons outside the college staff
have been aware that experiments were
going on. 1t is understood, says the Bos-
ton journal. that important experiments
have also been made at the college with
electric currents, with the end in view of
verifying the experiments of foreign
scientists,.wLich 60 co show that the action
of the electric currents upon plants and
vegetables Sc Ems to consist in the active
dissolution of the organic principles exist
ing in the soil, which are thereby brought
within the reach of the roots, thus caus-
ing more rapid growth in shorter
period.
Independent of tn, experiments at the
agricultural college only one private indi-
vidual in the state is known to have expert
n,ented with the electric light, and that is
w. w. R awson, an extensive market gar.
dener in Arlington. Mr. Rawson bed his
attention drawn to the effect of tie electric
light on plant growt in singular manner
and By accident. As far as be is concern
ed, the re ore, his experiments we've org
inal with himself and were made long be-
fore he heard any attention was being paid
to the subject by foreign or American
scientists. In the fall of 1889 it so hap
pened that an electric Fight was erected by
the town Of Arlington for street lighting
purposes at a point in close proximity to |
one sid, of his resid inca. On that side OF |!
his house were number of flower beds !
which never th1ived until the rays of the |