Show USI USES S FOIL TOADS AND cryts ars I 1 are great inject killers and can bo be cado lIo pets alron imre I that lla uoti Ic try a gat orally and nue dr r clitton clifton F lloil gf assistant febber of ant anil neurology ut at allik cl ilk un hersity in worcester mass has been demoting a pool good leil deal of time of late late to the introduction of nature study in tile the public schools anil and in preparing the subjects to be ilet bet bore ore the ebil children drell for lie ile has learned some ita tere biting facts lie ile has found that the com common 11 1 l brown browie bat can be domesticated that the garden toad irth proper encouragement will cep it a bou house boue e tree free as horn oni 11 hies leg anti and that f the waters of a district are leit hept well locked w ith asli and tadpoles the demos mos arito to rest pest can be reduced to reamona reasonable ble dimits before setting the eb emillien illien tit nt well dr hodge made personal ob 0 the toad ill capt n ity lie ile constructed construct rd a small pen lien in ins his ga gaiden idell and in it in a pan of water installed a mare and female toad to attract rood food tot for them he be placed within the illch illco zure bits of meat and bone the re sit I 1 is v m e ere re as satisfactory N as ahtha 1 N ere unexpected the toads niobe 1 of their tillie sitting xvi within thill reaching reach ilg lanee lance of the bait and id Lillin hinr pr tile the flies attracted ly it the fell female de laid lloil ile her pt in ill the water of the pan pall and in ill nc ile time the little black made jade their appearance there was nas beall no need of the imprisoning walls of it ire C netting net lins tile the PI prisoners csoll rs could not lilt hac e been hired to escape bell lie the rhe neigh 1 I n lors were rec receding rece hinR ehing a marked benent benefit bioni 1 oni the expel ament they hall neo neer er iad 1 so so lew few flies to annoy lonno y them then dr blodge established another rud larger colony here three or four toads mere ere to be seen squatting about a 1 MII ill gle le bone each snapping snap p in up tip cherr c ery 11 y N hat canie came near the tact fact seemed to bo established that if toads mere w ere on cri cou raged to frequent the pardons gardens there bould be cry loary much less annoyance ance from flies during lle iloe do dog da 1 13 h S another cf dr hodges es elc e el rime lits nas as with mith hats bats ilis attention was turned to them the lite codlin moth tle insect to bit bame line for most worm oaten apples jn an il near his hon hoite c dr found nine dine of the grubs of aliis insect in a rai minute nute chancing to into mother haul a ivoin the first lie he found olli i four foil 0 the grabs ri in an hours seal a icci rh i it au an oli old larn near by in lie a colony of beti beaw een 75 and 1 apo too bats the divner of the he far farm m informed ill ahr doctor that his apples were almaas tree free from monn the natura naturalist liht caught c fishl a aind III offered to it some of the on malich bere arc greedily accepted the codlin guoth lies flies only at night flight the nine I 1 is true of the lie bat putting the facts together dr hodge thought there nas a strong ease case of till evidence that the bit aa vi a deiy deiv useful friend of tle the apple grow gron er dr hodge took half a dozen cloven of the eals home ionie with mill him aud and installed them in ill his rat rai lor loi at first they greeted any Ii endly conoly idi ildi inces ances umili knitli chattering 1 anger iger after awhile they became quite tame lame and m denever their jailer en alered the loohn they fly to him I 1 ini for foot food they igei neer tor readied reached the I 1 joint 0 of f allo vuu thenis themselves ches to lie handled hard led but they joeie meie friendly their home was aas in the folds at tile the top of tile the alo window in 1 ow drap draperies erics and when ullen night came lind iid F sometimes in the daytime they spend their 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