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GLEANINGS IN BEE C U L T U K E 



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seem worth wliile to put O'li steam for just 

 a little while nights and mornings. Some- 

 body suggested I might have a little gas- 

 oline-stove; but such stoves spoil the air 

 move or less by their fumes. Electricity 

 gives just the heat you need, and just as 

 long as you need it — no waste, no aslies, no 

 gases. .l\ty cousin, Mr. Clai'k Wolf, living 

 in the suburbs of the great city of Akron, 

 a few days ago showed me an electric cook- 

 ing-stove. It would roast, bake, or boil 

 anything. There was a sort of clock at- 

 tached to the stove, and Mrs. Wolf could set 

 the apparatus to heat at any temperature, 

 and keep it hot just so many minutes or 

 hours, and no longer; and then the faithful 

 electric servant would cai'ry out the instruc- 

 tions to the letter. There was also com- 

 bined wiih it a " tireless cooker." Tt would 

 heat the food just so many minutes or to 

 just such a temperature, and then shut off 

 the current and let the " tireless " do the 

 rest without expense. The price given for 

 the current to the great city was so low that 

 Mr. Wolf thought, all things considered, 

 that the current might be cheaper than 

 either wood, coal, gas, or gasoline, for cook- 

 ing and warming; and there were no ashes 

 and no bad gases. 



I have already told about the little electric 

 automobile here in Ohio that cariies me 

 wherever I want to go, from a few steps 

 to thirty or forty miles. Well, I am plan- 



ning also to have an electric automobile in 

 Florida. Now do not be in haste to call 

 me extravagant when I tell you that this 

 )icw electric will not cost more than half as 

 much as the automobiles that we see all 

 around us. In fact, it costs only about a 

 fourth of what some of them do. With the 

 windmill to fuinish the current the expense 

 will be far less than gasoline. In fact, it 

 will not cost you anything except to re- 

 plenish the batteries; and the latest improv- 

 ed batteries are said to give 10,000 miles of 

 travel before they will need replenishing 

 in any way. I may not live to see tke time, 

 dear friends, when wind power shall furnish 

 the Avorld with heat, light, and fuel, simply 

 by reaciliing out your hand and taking it as 

 a free gift ; but even if I do not, I am sure 

 that some of you will. 



O'nce more, is there any danger that self- 

 ish and greedy men shall make a monopoly 

 of wind power? Can they get a "corner 

 on the market "? Is there any danger there 

 will not be room enough overhead for the 

 windmills that may be needed? When you 

 sing again. " Praise God, from whom all 

 blessings Row," do not forget to include 

 am.ong his many blessings the gentle breezes 

 and the raging wind that purify the air 

 and which are going to prove in the near 

 future one more great and precious gift that 

 we liave only to reach out and take from 

 the hands of the loving Father. 



HIGH - PRESSURE GARDENING 



OUR OHIO GARDEN. 



Today, October 24, our garden stuff is 

 practically all gathered, and I thought I 

 would make a little summing up. On page 

 802. Oclub-er, I said my one peck of Early 

 Oliio seed potatoes gave ten pecks. Of 

 course that is nothing to brag of; but the 

 Early Ohio, even if it is of excellent quality, 

 is a poor yielder as a i-ule. Just when seed 

 putatotes were hard to get, our Medina folks 

 sent to Michigan and got a carload of the 

 Kui-al New-Yorker. From one bushel of 

 these Rurals I grew 25 bushels of nice po- 

 tatoes, even if it was almost July before 

 they Avere planted. I not only dug them 

 myself, but wheeled them up from away 

 down on the creek bottoms; and I want to 

 tell you what kind of wheelbarrow I used. 



MY NOVEL WHEELBARROW. 



Something over a year ago I told you of 

 getting a verv light little cultivator of 



Sears, Roebuck & Co. In fact, it weighs 

 a little less than 20 lbs. Well, the big 

 heavy wheelbarrows that we have over at 

 the fartoi-y arc almost a load for an old 

 man like myself, to say nothing of potatoes. 

 Now I will toll you what I did. I just 

 turned over my little light cultivator so the 

 plow part was up in the air. Then I set a 

 bushel basket between the handles, and I 

 had a very nice light easy-running Avheel- 

 ban-ow. Digging a bushel of potatoes 

 ever^'^ forenoon and afteraoon, and wheeling 

 them on the little cultivator, is just about 

 the kind of exercise I need to keep in good 

 health. My son Huber, across the way, 

 after seeing me wheel potatoes, took his 

 heavier cultivator and set across it tuw 

 bushel boxes. I give you the above sug- 

 gestion so that when you do not have a 

 wheelbarrow handy, or perhaps do not own 

 one at all, you can make almost any garden 

 cultivator do the work of a wheelbarrow. 



