Show TOADS USEFUL A WRITER in in the Denn pennsylvania sylvania farm fai m jow aal ial say I 1 have ever been the heend of toads and grea greatly aly regret the cruelty frequently manifested towards them by unthinking persons my garden abounds with them ani and a more sociable set ot of fellows I 1 have rarely met inet with whenever I 1 commence spading the newly spaded bed is is sure to 1 be sui surrounded rounded with them watching quickly but eagerly for any grub or worm that may chance to 6 be thrown tin own up last suin trier whilst spading some ground which abounded n in n the large white grubs usually found 1 in the vicinity of clover stalks I 1 observed a mid dl ig s sid zd toad sitting silting near quickly watching my my opia tion presently one ot of the grubs was turned up and in in order to test iiii his fondness tor for such food I 1 threw it before him in an instant it was swallowed As he appeared to relish the morsel ia j I 1 gave him another and another until filially he be made away with wih seven of them when he be retired next day he returned letu ined and dispatched six six more of the r ib which I 1 gave him I 1 1 mention these little facts merely mei ely for the purpose of show showing ilig how large a number of troublesome worms and insects a single toad will destroy desti oy As some of your readers may have a cucui bar bed which the striped bugs are destroying permit me to suggest a remedy for or these pests peats which I 1 have found most effectual between ohp hills lay pieces of boards sufficiently raised from the pound ground to enable the toads to conceal themselves under them during the day and my word for foi it the bugs will speedily disappear whether they are eaten by the toads or whether their presence is so unpleasant as to drive di ive them away I 1 cannot say aay but presume the toads destroy them |