Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — Cultivating Bacteria. [ARTICLE]

Cultivating Bacteria.

To the uniustructed mind, it may suiack of absurdity to say that at no distant day tlie bacteria of butter and cheese will tie cultivated as we now cultivate other commercial products. A writer on this subject says: "The fermentation of cream and of cheese is already as tutu-h of an art as the fermentation of mail in tin* manufacture of beer. In the curing of tobacco tlie same activity is discovered, and the day is not far distant when commerce in high bred tobacco -bacteria will be an accomplished fact. In short, we may look forward to the day when tlie bacteria active in agriculture will lie carefully cultivated, and the bacterial herd book will lie found along with those of the Jersey cow and the Norman horse.” On a par with this is the sterilization of products, which process is necessary lief ore the thorough bred bacteria is introduced.