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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Sept. 1 



and tell him the same. Let me add, howev- 

 er, that friend Grundy's book contains many 

 ^•ood things. If the price were 50 cents in- 

 stead of $2.00 I should be glad to recommend 

 it, notwithstanding its exaggeration about 

 "8 cents per bushel," etc. 



" .\NIMATED EGGS;" SOMETHING ABOUT IT FROM " CAN- 

 NIE SCOTLAND." 



Dear Mr. Root:— On page 21, June 15, under special 

 notices by you, " animated eggs, a great discovery," 

 you go on to describe the wonderful phenomenon of 

 eggs rolling about on a smooth surface. The same 

 thing has always been known in Scotland. Before up- 

 to-date egg-testers were thought of, just near hatching 

 time we took the eggs from under the hen or machine 

 and put them in warm water, and those that were fer- 

 tile we saw rolling about and around the dish, which 

 is just caused by the same motion as rolling on the 

 smooth glass. 



The weather here in Scotland has not been good for 

 honey as yet. We hope it may come soon, as the 

 white clover is showing in fine bloom. Just a little 

 more heat and dry weather, and it would roll in. 



James Smith. 



Mid Locharwoods, Rothwell, Scotland, July 5. 



Thank you, friend S. ; but if I understand 

 you it has long been known that eggs would 

 move about when put in water; but did any 

 of our Scottish friends ever find out that 

 eggs would move in a like manner when laid 

 on a smooth glass? So far, nobody has 

 shown definitely that the experiment of the 

 egg on a looking-glass had ever before been 

 performed. 



"COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BE- 

 FORE." 



When I was eighteen years old I predicted 

 *'^ ~t electricity would soon take the place of 

 steam in transporting people from place to 

 place; and as a proof I exhibited around at 

 schoolhouses a home-made model of a little 

 electric motor. From my boyish point of 

 view I supposed we would travel by elec- 

 tricity in two or three years; but it took thirty 

 or forty years. Later on I told you that au- 

 tomobiles would soon be more plentiful than 

 carriages drawn by horses. This event, too, 

 took longer than I expected, and it has not 

 yet come to pass, except in certain localities. 

 In 1904, when I told you about the Wright 

 brothers, and a little later when I told you 

 at length what I had seen with my own eyes, 

 I said at that time that their discovery (that 

 the air could be traversed without the aid of 

 balloons or gas of any kind) would make a 

 sensation in the world akin to the discovery 

 of America by Christopher Columbus. I 

 thought then that6c/or(?tneyearl909we would 

 see the air full of flying-machines. Now, it 

 may take until 1910 for my more mature pre- 

 diction to come true. But if nothing hinders, 

 before the snow flies in the Northern States, 

 this year, we shall see an excitement through- 

 out the whole wide world that will eclipse 

 any thing known heretofore. I need not 

 take space here to give you the proof of 

 what tne Wright brothers and a host of oth- 

 ers scattered almost all over the face of the 

 earth are doing in this new lately developed 

 gift from God. Automobiles will be compar- 

 atively out of date. Iron tracks and bridges 

 that cost up into the millions will be no long- 

 er needed. While I dictate these words, 



every daily records with startling headlines 

 "All previous records smashed and broken." 

 This morning we are' told that our good 

 friends the Wright brothers are left behind; 

 but to-morrow's daily may tell us that our 

 old friend Wilbur is "up on his nerve," and 

 is not so much behind after all. If these 

 boys will only be careful and not get killed, 

 whtte they are almost wild with enthusiasm 

 with the successes that are comin^, we shall 

 be very glad indeed. May God be praised 

 that I have been permitted to live long 

 enough to see flying-machines an assured 

 success. 



HELPING TO "REPLENISH THE EARTH," OR 

 CONTRIBUTING TO " RACE SUICIDE," WHICH? 



Just a few days ago I happened to look out 

 on the street in front of our home. By the 

 way, it is a beautifully paved street of vitri- 

 fied brick; and our contribution to the part 

 of it that runs in front of our factory and 

 through "Rootville ' was about .'SI 700. Now, 

 what I saw out on that street was a boy, of 

 eight or nine years old, instructing his young- 

 er brother (about five years old) how to ride 

 a juvenile bicycle. It was a real bicycle, fit- 

 ted up just like a big one, but macle for a 

 small boy. As it was summer time I think 

 both teacher and pupil were sweating some- 

 what; but before they finished their morning 

 lesson, Ralph Boyden, the youngest, was go- 

 ing up street and down, making the turns all 

 right, even though he did do some grotesque 

 wabbling. The young teacher, his brother 

 Wynne, was watching him, and feeling hap- 

 py to think they had succeeded. While this 

 was going on, Howard Calvert whizzed by 

 with the speecl of the wind on a new motor 

 bicycle he has just purchased. Leland Ro(t, 

 the oldest grandson, was getting ready to 

 take me out to that White Leghorn egg-farm; 

 but a telephone message came from our 

 "Wise doctor" (his name is Dr. Wise) say- 

 ing he had an urgent call to visit a patient 

 out in the country; and as his own machine 

 was disabled he wanted to know if the Root 

 family could help him out. Leland hopped 

 out of our big Reo, and ran another machine 

 up to the doctor's without even waiting to 

 excuse himself. Leland's younger brother, 

 Alan, about four (the A. I. Root of the fu- 

 ture), has a small foot-power automobile. 

 While this was going on, little Jean (the 

 "girl baby " over at our home) was showing 

 her grandpa her newly acquired tricks, and 

 letting him know how much she could talk. 

 Katherine Root, over at the other home, was 

 entertaining the family with her bewitching 

 smiles. The two other girls, Mildred Cal- 

 vert* and Helen Boyden, were off with our 

 Mr. A. L. Boyden on a vacation trip to Ni- 

 agara Falls with a new automobile of their • 

 own. As I took in the situation that summer 

 morning I said to Mrs. Root, "These boys 



* It is not the boys only who take to automobiles; for 

 Miss Mildred, not quite fourteen years old, runs her 

 father's Reo runabout very skillfully; and when he 

 was in California she helped all Rootville to get to 

 church and Sunday-school and back. 



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