Show The Gardeners Gardener's s F Friends I If If you are are planning a garden this year certainly er keep a toad or two All successful gardeners know that toads are theIr best Insect destroyers J The department of agriculture has reported that the annual crop rop loss to the United States from insect pests is over An expert has estimated that certain larvae will consume times their original origin l weight in twenty-four twenty hours If an infant did as s much muchas as s some caterpillars he lie would weigh forty tons at maturity All investigators agree that the song and game birds arc are the best of agents for destroying insects One authority says says that it is more likely th that t successful agriculture rc become e impossible if all ll the birds were to be exterminated exterminate The work of the friendly flicker which likes the city almost as aswell aswell well as the country is a good example of what an an energetic bird will accomplish if unhindered Certain flickers subjected to a survey were found to devour ants a day while two Ol orioles ol S feasted on oil plant lice at a single meal The amateur g gardener u usually comes comes to his first grief in consequence consequence consequence conse conse- quence of his his' complete ignorance of the i ways ays of plant lice By encouraging encouraging en en- birds as well as toads to live in his garden he can re reduce his troubles with insects to a minimum |