Show ANTS ARE SMART GARDENERS they are known to grow grain sowing and harvesting like real farmers farmere man Is not the only animal who has discovered the division of 0 the vegetable world into weeds on the one hand band and garden plants on the other our ingenious little six legged workers ers the ants have anticipated us in this as in so many other useful inventions vent ions and discoveries there are ants in texas which grow grain and each nest owns a small claim in the vicinity of its mound on which it cultivates a kind of grass commonly known as ant rice the claim Is circular about ten or twelve feet in diameter and the ants allow no plant but the ant rice to encroach upon the cleared space anywhere the brodice pr odice of the crop they carefully harvest trough th ough authorities efte are still disagreed upon the final question whether they plant the grain or merely allow it to sow its own seed on the protected area ono one thing however Is certain that no other plant Is permitted to sprout on the tabooed patch the ants waga war on weeds far more vigorously and effectively than our own agriculturists |