April, 1920 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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in the day time as well as night, all up-to-date banks 

 are inspired, .iiist as you have your house and barn 

 insured; and you may be sure they are safe-guardod 

 now in a way th6y ncve>r were before since the 

 world began. Do not be afraid of your banks nor 

 of your bankers. They are your porsonal friends, 

 and would be still more so if you would stop car- 

 rying your money around in your pockets. 



I was going to say something about baiting " rats 

 and robbers " by lugging around diamonds, higli- 

 priced watches, etc. ; but this paper is already long 

 enough. Now, friends, shall we not join in a cru- 

 sade to starve robbers as well as rats and mice? 

 Keep away the temptation. Your old friend. 



A. I. Root. 



Later. — I have just come across the fol- 

 lowing from the Plain Dealer of Oct. 25th : 

 brothkr's savings stolen. 



Mrs. Michalinn Lewicka, C910 Gertrudo Avenue 

 S. E., saved $950 for her brother, she told police, 

 and had put the money under a clothes basket. In 

 her absence, she said, the money was stolen. 



If this were an isolated case, it would not 

 matter; but, my good friends, if you will 

 scan our daily papers you will find it is 

 almost a daily occurence. This poor wom- 

 an had jn-obably labored for months and 

 liossi])ly for years to lay up $950. and then 

 unwisely left it " under a clothes basket." 

 Paul said, ages ago, " If meat maketh my 

 brother to offend I will eat no meat while 

 the world standeth." Now, if leaving mon- 

 ey, the accumulations, perhaps, of a life- 

 time, aroimd loose does not " make my 

 brother to offend," what does it do? 



ELECTRIC WIXDMILL NO. 2 AT OUR FLORIDA 

 HOME. 



The new windmill had its first trial to- 

 day, Jan. 15. I think, perhaps, I am the 

 first to discover that wind, at least some- 

 times, blows quite briskly at one place, and 

 200 feet distant doesn't blow. This upsets 

 my plan of making the two pull together, 

 like a span of horses. Instead of charging 

 the auto with one plug, in the rear, we mi;st 

 have a " charging plug," both front and 

 rear, and have one mill charge the front 

 find one the rear. Cli])fell and Kaiser are 

 l)oth on the problem, and T don't know of 

 two better and more capable men, for the 

 job, in the whole wide world. Wlien the 

 auto is out on the road, the same tiling 

 must be done with the 16-cell stationary 

 battery just received. Let each mill take 

 half of the 16. Should it, in the future, be 

 found advisable to have a "battery" of 

 windmills, say a half-dozen in a string, this 

 " erratic " habit of the wind will doubtless 

 prove a good thing, for altogether they will 

 give a much steadier current. 



Feb. 11th. — We have all our batteries 

 fully charged, and the two windmills are 

 about out of a job. OAving to the difficulty 

 of getting appliances of 32 volts (instead 

 of 110), we are not yet doing the heating 

 and cooking by wind power, but our home 



is lighted beautifully by 75-Watt nitrogen 

 globes. A queer thing, to me at least, is 

 tiie fact that one mill will almost stand still, 

 while the other stores at a very fair rate; 

 and tlie two very rarely have the same, 

 speed even when only 200 feet apart. T be- 

 lieve tlie flying machines have hinted at this 

 erratic habit of the wind. In one respect 

 tliis is fortunate, for with a single mill the 

 hand of the ammeter on the auto was- al- 

 ways dodging up and down ; with the two 

 mills, the united cuiTent is 'very much 

 steadier, and with, say, one-half dozen 

 mills we might do many kinds of work 

 without any batteiy at all, or with a com- 

 ]iaratively small and inexpensive battery. 

 Later : What seemed yesterday " the 

 impossible," has apparently been accom- 

 plished. The two windmills are now pull- 

 ing together like a well-trained team of 

 horses, and a single " charging plug " de- 

 livers the whole current to either the auto- 

 mobile batteries, or the stationary batteries. 

 See below, clipped from the Cleveland Plain 

 Dealer : 



WIND POWER. 



Editor Plain Dealer : — Sir : In view of a possi- 

 ble coal shortage! in the next few years, I would 

 sugge.st that people who have favorable locations 

 wliere a powerful windmill could be erected, take 

 advantage of the wind's force to drive many ma- 

 chines, electrical and otherwise, that are at pres- 

 ent depending on power plants that are taxed to 

 the limit. Modern ball and roller bearings, scien- 

 tific bearings, light structural iron towers, and 

 modern draughtmanship could evolve an efficient 

 air turbine that connected to the dynamo, or by belt 

 direct, could furnish light and heat for ironing, 

 washing machines, saws for cordwood or steel bars, 

 and numberless other devices that need power; and 

 combined with present sources, as in case of wind 

 velocity shortage, which has not manifested itself 

 this year, the power could be switched to the pres- 

 ent supply until the mill whirls again. 



Cleveland. Edward Brown. 



FLORIDA NEW POTATOES. 



About the middle of February one of 

 our Bradentown grocerymen came down to 

 our place and said he wanted one-half 

 I)ushel or more of nice, new potatoes, and 

 tliat he would pay $5.00 per bushel for 

 them. Altho they were not quite ready to 

 dig I carried them up in the wind electric 

 auto, and, as soon as people saw them, 

 there was a big demand for more. The re- 

 sult is I have carried up town about two 

 l)tisliels ($10.00 worth) a day for the last 

 20 days, and the demand has been for more 

 every trip I have made. The grocers re- 

 tail (hem at 75c a y2-peck basket ($6.00 

 per bu.), and a good many are sold in 

 quart baskets at 20e a basket. Why these 

 great jn-ices? Well, it is just because my 

 potatoes are stai-ted in a bed of very rich 

 soil, that can l)e protected from frost as I 

 liave described, winter after winter. These 



