November, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



691 



for that one Italian queen bee. Well, I 

 saw and heard the boy play on his $200 

 flute. The sister standing- ne.xt to him in 

 the picture played the violin while some- 

 body else played the piano. And what do 

 you think happened? Several times, if I 

 remember correctly, this boy has been 

 paid $100 to g-o and play just one evening 

 for some particular entertainment with his 

 $200 flute. Do you catch a glimpse of the 

 moral? Do not scold your boy if he does 

 not happen to be just like other folks, es- 

 ]:>ecially if he should take a notion to push 

 off in some eccentric way as did that boy 

 with the piccolo and his brotlier with the 

 windmill. 



We are now ready to get back to the 

 windmill. It was ray pleasure to see the 

 original windmill invented and put up by 

 George Manikowske. As it is out on the 

 level plain they did not think it necessary 

 to put up a very high tower; and there are 

 no trees or buildings to interfere with the 

 wind except in one direction, and that is 

 right around the homestead. I asked if it 

 was not true that the mill did better work 

 when the wind did not come from the di- 

 i-ection of the trees and buildings around 

 the home, and I was told that it did; but 

 so far it has furnished sufficient current 

 for all purposes about the farm. The 

 storage batteries are located in the attic 

 of the house, as they seemed to have more 

 room there. A cellar is always a better 

 place than an attic because the evaporation 

 from the acid in the batteries is not as 

 rapid. The individuals in the picture are 

 about the same as those I have mentioned 

 before, George and his wife and one of the 

 little girls being on the right hand. Very 

 likely the father was a little disappointed 

 to find that none of his boys (or girls 

 either) seemed to take kindly to farming. 

 One took to electricity, another to music, 

 and the two daughters are both teachers. 

 The good father was wise, however, in not 

 sitting down too hard on either of his two 

 boys. If I got it right, when the electric 

 windmill was first started, with some mis- 

 givings, he mortgaged his farm to get the 

 invention on its feet. 



Elsewhere we give you a ]>icture of 

 " yours truly " driving a four-horse-power 

 harvester. George's mother stood beside 

 me and told me what levers to push and 

 which to pull, etc. ; and I am afraid she 

 considered me a rather stupid ])upil, for T 

 had gone almost around the lialf-mile field 

 before I caught on to just what was want- 

 ed. 



May God speed the people of North 



Dakota in their effort to do their bit to- 

 ward feeding the world and thus ending 

 the war. 



*' KING BARLEYCORN IS DEAD, KILLED BY THE 



Tlie Philadelphia Farm Journal was 

 started shortly after Gleanings, 42 years 

 ago, and it has been my privilege to see it 

 grow for more than 40 years. Below is 

 what the February number starts out with : 



WAR HAS BROUGHT ONE BLESSING. 



Like a beam of white radiance from the war-pit 

 of darkness, has suddenly come a wonderful thing — 

 a National Prohibition Amendment to the Constitu- 

 tion. Had there been no war there wotuld be no 

 Amendment now. 



If our boys in the trenches wirt no other thing 

 but this, their sacrifice has not been in vain. If 

 the war brings no other reward than this, it is 

 worth all it costs in treasure and lives. 



Thank God for tlie. patriots in Senate and House 

 who voted "Aye! " And hats off to the States that 

 will now, please God, soon ratify the Amendment 

 and close every distillery and bar in America for- 

 ever! 



Our children soon shall never again see the 

 s-winging doors of a saloon, nor hear the music of a 

 cabaret, nor read a liquor advertisement. King 

 Barleycorn is dead — killed by the war. 



ANOTHER REASON (aND A BIG ONE) FOR VOT- 

 ING OHIO DRY. 



The Plain Dealer for April 1 contains an 

 article headed as follows: 



U. S. OPENS SOCIAL ni.SEASE BATTLE ; PHVSICIANS 



TO BE ORDERED TO REPORT ALL PATIENTS 



TO HEALTH BOARD. 



From this article we clip three para- 

 graphs, as below : 



Dr. Cole said medical authorities estimate that 

 10 per cent, of tlie population of Ohio is afflicted 

 with syphilis and that this figure does not include 

 milder forms of social diseases. 



He announced one of the distinctive features of 

 the campaign will be a vigorous fight for total ab- 

 stinence. 



" Booze," he claimed, could be held indireictly 

 responsible for 68 per cent of all cases of venereal 

 diseases. 



Extreme danger from these diseases, Dr. Cole 

 stated, has been emphasized by war conditions and 

 has resulted in a request by the federal government 

 to state authorities systematically to root oait the 

 menace. 



PROHIBITIONT, AXI> THE AWFUL (?) CONSE- 

 QUENCES THAT FOLLOW. 



The clipping below comes from the Jack- 

 sonville Times-Union : 



Prohibition is accused of w;u«tci in that the value 

 of many inveistiuents has lieen destroyed. One of 

 these is the groat jail at Birmingham, ,\la., which 

 cost thousands, and must now be sold for a factory, 

 since the county has no use for it. How many 

 counties supported so many drunks in the late past? 



