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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1918 



3. The first original electric windmill for generat- 

 ing electricity for farm use. 



jeeted to stable manure because it makes 

 such a growth that the wheat and oats fall 

 down wherever the manure is applied. By 

 the way, when I visited Mitchell, S. D., 

 something like 30 years ago, they were 

 hauling the manure out of town to a river- 

 side and dumping it in the water. They 

 said the land did not need it. I do not 

 think that any of that kind of work is go- 

 ing on now. The beautiful gardens, and 

 the large amount of stuff they were grow- 

 ing, so impressed me that I felt a great de- 

 sire to spend one summer gardening in 

 North Dakota. 



I think I have remarked before that the 

 Manikowske family are geniuses. There 

 are two boys and two girls. Every one of 

 them seemed bent from childhood on get- 

 ting an education, but they chose different 

 lines. T have had a good deal to say about 

 Geo- ^e. Well, his brother, seen in the pic- 

 ' .^re, is a good deal like him ; but his bent 

 seems to be in a different direction. The 

 two girls are both teachers. The one in 

 the picture, with a pair of feminine over- 

 alls, had a letter offering her a large salary 



to teach, instead of helping her father on 

 the farm. The matter was referred to me 

 for my advice. After reading the letter 

 and studying on the matter for a while, 

 especially considering her mechanical skill, 

 I advised her to help harvest the present 

 tremendous croi3S and thus relieve her 

 father of considerable care and worry. I 

 now want to tell you a little story about 

 George's brother, shown in his working rig 

 beside his father. 



While George's hobby was windmills and 

 electricity this brother was crazy about 

 music. One spring when the weather was 

 just right for cultivating the corn, and the 

 work was away behind, the two boys went 

 out each with a team to cultivate. Well, 

 this younger son had just got hold of a lit- 

 tle piccolo. He had always been crazy for 

 a fife or a flute. The piccolo was made in 

 two pieces. The boy put it in his pocket 

 when he went out to cultivate, and by some 

 mischance a part of the instrument slipped 

 out of his pocket, and, of course, it was 

 buried in that fine soft soil by the culti- 

 vator. Some time during the forenoon the 

 father came out to see how the boys were 

 progressing. He was greatly vexed to find 

 them both down on their hands and knees 

 grabbing over the dirt to find the missing 

 part of the piccolo. I think likely he 

 scolded a little; and I am afraid that if I 

 had been in his place I might have said 

 things that I would have been sorry for 

 afterward. They found the missing part, 

 but George said they clawed the dirt over 

 for pretty near a half a mile before they 

 found it. 



Well, the boy kept practicing in his 

 spare moments on the piccolo. Then he 



4. A. I. Koot helping to harvest thci <-roi) in North 

 Dakota. 



bought a flute, and pretty soon he bought a 

 better one. He was frequently asked why 

 he wasted his money on such "fool con- 

 traptions." When he paid out over $200 

 for one of the best flutes the world could 

 furnish, the friends and neighbors thought 

 of him as they did of me when I paid $20 



