Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1891 — SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. [ARTICLE]

SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Practical New York dairymen r’ it has taken at least 10£ po, i... milk on the average this eeasou lo make a pound of cheese. The production of metal aluminum by electrolysis at a cost little above that of tin is what some French < bem« ists are sanguine of being able to accomplish. The 300th asteroid was discovered October 3, 1890. The first was discovered Jan. 1, 1801, and tho list has been increased by about 10 ) in the last ten years. Experiments made not cnly in this country but in Europe, indicate that the use of electric lights when ap. plied for the growth of plants, can never be for any practical benefit. Cuneiform tablet! lately deciphered prove to be among the earliest astronomical records known, giving a mi. m.to account of Chaldean observation of, the moon and planets for the vear 522 B. C. A French chetpilt has shown tha* the potato called the ’'Richter irrpeiator” is well tilted for the production of alcohol by distillation on a oommec* cial scale and that the ‘ draff” tbatiesults is readily eateo by cattle