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once "Yes, and a fine article at 

 that," He replied "I thought it 

 was; but was not quite sure." He 

 had simply not been in a position 

 to compare many times, and so 

 could not vouch for a particular 

 kind. With once or twice more tast- 

 ing you could not have fooled him 

 for an instant. Truly, the little 

 papillae of the tip of the tongue 

 fcTjd the forward portions of the 

 mouth, are wonderful, and capable 

 cf marvelous cultivation. It is said 

 that expert tea tasters can detect 

 even the least adulteration of 

 brands of tea, even when two or 

 many sorts are put together. And 

 it is also said, that those expert 

 tasters seldom last for many years! 

 Their systems become clogged, and 

 they die early. Glad this is not 

 true of training in the art of cor- 

 rectly labeling and branding honey. 



E. G. B. 



Moving 385 Colonies of Bees from 

 the North location, 150 miles to 

 Our Home Location here at 

 Northstar. 



My oldest son, Dell, and a stu- 

 dent from S. Dakota, Mr. Wm. Sax- 

 er is now, April llth, at the North 

 yards after our two cars of bees we 

 have there, They have them out of 

 ihe cellar and are waiting for 

 weather for them to fly before pack- 



; and shipping them. In moving 

 bees North, we plan to move late 

 as we can and still get them to 

 their destination in time for the 

 main honey flow. In moving South, 

 as in this case, the opposite rule 

 is practiced, i. e., moving them at 

 the earliest convenient time. No 

 deep thought is required to study 

 out why this practice is best. 



Education and Manual Training 



Young people who have left the 

 farm to attend school in some dis- 

 tant academy or college on return- 

 ing show an all too common dislike 

 for manual labor. This dislike has 

 both a right and a wrong foundation. 

 While away at school they wore 

 neat clean clothes and lived in an 

 atmosphere of tidiness and order. 

 And much of this order was brought 

 about by janitors, servants, maids, 

 ttc, classes of labor that rank in 

 the minds of most as far below the 

 intellectual plane of the college 

 man or woman. 



Intellect is above manual labor, 

 but this does not hinder the man 

 who labors with his hands from 

 thinking logically with his head 

 and making his intelligence save 

 many a physical ache. Here is 

 where our over specialization comes 

 in: we delegate one class of persons 

 to do all the merely physical tasks 

 and another class to do all our 

 thinking for us with the result that 

 the manual laborer remains noth- 

 ing but a clod, a physical machine; 

 while the brain worker loses the 

 balance necessary to a full rounded 

 existence. The merely intellectual 

 do not reproduce which is evidence 

 enough that the weigher of eternal 

 values does not consider them de- 



sirable citizens. Nature values the 

 physical basis as very essential for 

 our best citizens now come from 

 foreign immigrants who are not at 

 the very apex of intellectual heights, 

 but have the homely virtues of 

 honesty, sterling character and phy- 

 sical vigor gathered through the 

 many generations of out-door man- 

 ual labor of their forbears. The 

 next higher type and the type we 

 are seeing more and more common 

 is that of the fruit grower rising 

 at four o'clock in the morning, load- 

 ing up his fruit and driving twelve 

 miles to market, but on the way 

 rehearsing a speech he is to deliver 

 before the state horticultural soci- 

 ety, or an address on some national 

 reform like the postal savings 

 bank or parcels post. Then when 

 still a fruit grower his neighbors 

 think so well of him that he is 

 sent to the state legislature. Is not 

 this an encouraging sign of the wis- 

 dom of the people that they will 

 send one of their own folks to re- 

 present them at the state capitol? 

 A man of brains if he has a 

 sense of the eternal fitness of 

 things will never feel that it is be- 

 neath him to take a hand at pure 

 manual tasks. This spirit of pride or 

 siiobbishness is shown when a 



