September, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS iit 
may be left. It should also include cul- 
ling out the inferior pullets if one can 
bring himself to that work. It really is 
better to Winter a flock of first-class 
birds than one which is much larger but 
made up partly of poor stock. The small, 
weak-looking and poorly-marked pullets 
should go to the block or to the hen col- 
lector along with the excess cockerels. 
Of course, there is no reason why a con- 
siderable number of cockerels should not 
be kept along to grace the family table 
from time to time, but they should be 
kept in a pen by themselves and prefer- 
ably caponized, so that they will cease to 
be quarrelsome and otherwise trouble- 
some. 
PRESERVING OUR TALL TREES 
ONE too soon a popular movement has 
been set on foot in Australia to pre- 
serve the gigantic stringybarks (various 
species of Eucalyptus) of that country, 
which far exceed in height the famous “big 
trees” of California, and are the tallest trees 
in the world. These trees sometimes attain 
heights ranging from four hundred to five 
hundred feet. Their timber is exceedingly 
valuable, and for this reason they have been 
ruthlessly destroyed by lumbermen, while 
no proper steps have been taken to provide 
for their reproduction. 
THE SUFFRAGETTE IN ANTIQUITY 
HE ‘suffragette’ in ancient Greece,” says 
the Dial, “appears to have made her 
presence known as early as 392 B. C., the 
date of the performance of Aristophanes’ 
comedy, ‘Ecclesiazuse,’ or, as one might 
freely render it in English, ‘The Female 
Suffragists,’ or ‘The Women in Town-Meet- 
ing.’ This laughable picture of a feminized 
republic should be just now the timeliest 
sort of play for amateur presentation on the 
part of young ladies’ dramatic associations. 
A recent meeting of the classical and 
archzological clubs of Mount Holyoke Col- 
lege was enlivened by the performance of 
this comedy by members of the senior and 
junior classes, under the direction of Dr. 
Mary G. Williams, the professor of Greek. 
So successful was this Aristophanic revival 
that the project is now favorably considered 
of producing a Greek play every year.” 
MILK AND THUNDERSTORMS 
CCORDING to Cosmos, “everybody is 
familiar with the fact that milk is more 
apt to turn sour in stormy weather than at 
other times. The cause of this has been a 
matter of considerable mystery, but some 
light seems to be shed on the situation by A. 
Trillat, who has shown that minute traces 
of gaseous products of putrefaction favor 
the development of lactic ferments. Hence, 
any fall in atmospheric pressure which en- 
courages the liberation of such gases from 
various sources will indirectly assist the 
souring of milk, and, for the matter of that, 
the decay of various putrescible materials. 
That such liberation of gases does actually 
occur at times of barometric depression is 
rendered manifest enough by the character- 
istic smell which the earth is found to ex- 
hale at such times. Mr. Trillat has, more- 
over, positively confirmed his theory by ex- 
posing samples of milk in the neighborhood 
of substances giving rise to putrefactive 
gases. On diminishing the pressure, so as 
to cause the liberation of the gases, it is 
found that the milk is apt to turn sour.” 
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