Show Uncanny Wisdom of Ant Kingdom Pictured in Book Backyard Exploration Is Another Treatise on Insect Life Did you know that ants have cows which they tend for their milk This is one of the little known facts about insect life lite that Paul Griswold Giswold Howes discloses in his new book Backyard Exploration tion By means of a glass formicary formicary cary Mr Howes was able to study and photograph the activities of ants in their homes He discovered many things about them them that that they pack away their food in storehouses storehouses storehouses store store- houses that they feed their young on specially prepared food toad that they wage fierce fielce battles all much the same as humans but the strangest of their habits Is the tending of their cows Ant cattle says Mr MI Howes are small Insects known as as plant lI lice e. e These breed very rapidly and swarm upon the stems of leaves and plants They feed upon the plants plant's sap which is drawn Into their bodies through their sucking beaks Now at some time in the remote past ants stumbled upon a herd of these helpless sucking creatures In Inso Inso Inso so doing they discovered that when bum bumped pea Into or touched plant lice exude a sweet fluid from two tiny tubes at the ends of their bodies This the ants lapped up p eagerly because of its saccharine nature and in this act the seed of a habit became planted The tender care bestowed upon I these cattle by ants Is entirely be because because because be- be I cause of or this honey supply In I Isome some cases houses of paper or wood pulp are are constructed over the herds barns actually which are guarded by soldier ants that rush out with open Jaws at the first sign of or an Intruder Most Interesting of aUis all aU allis allis is the fact tact that in the north the ants carry their herds underground und In winter and place them upon roots beyond the danger of frosts th thus s securing a supply of or sweets through the winter Inter |