Show A CENSUS OF ANT COLONIES A Gorman Carman naturalist recently made n a census of f ants Ho lIo arranged nn h F tince J lle that permeated II an on lint ant bill hili with lIlt sulphur vapors until nil 1111 tho the inmates were leAd dead Then he carefully dug lUll up uti the tho entire colony and put and nil all a II bag bug which ho he curled to ta his labora irn laboratory l tory the sorting porting and counting of ot the anth required more than a n wee of steady work He IIo found 2280 ants and nn in III It Tho Tim Investigator Inv not lell with this for tOl he lie hl argued that none Homo ants lints must have escaped mul that many of or the workers no doubt hind had heel been away from fron the colony aVnie nAI of or the line trait that makes nuts Cults crawl In hordes over any ony now new ob oh object jelt near hoar ne r their colonies ho Iw laid hand brond pieces of ot smooth wood In r paths and the tints ants otC oft Into receptacles cles riel of alcohol at Intervals Intervale This Thill pros pro process cess eM was continued for tor a 1 cok tIll Ill the hill hili was wan depopulated Five Ie ant hills were werl thus examined In III htone one nummer and the tho census showed that they had ho the following and on 1 ants ahta nn all nil of ot which worn wore oro workers Tho The females and other morl the total number member r of ot Inhabitants of ot each n hill III amount to 10 at chum 1 i r I I q I I polls Times |