Show ANTS THAT GROW MUSHROOM insects insect make mak excellent gardener Garden tr in south america Amerl ci i Pro tJ fJ R pavis gew latest proofs ot of tho the anti ant right to our applause says sayi the philadelphia record reche recha he ha taya say in tropical america the traveler la in their native region often offen aea thousands ot of ants marching la in oo 00 column lu m n of route rout each holding in III its powerful laws jaws a piece of 0 green leaf about th this size ize ot of a sixpence these they uke take to their nests the material ti Is used as aa an elaborate sort ot of mushroom culture requiring much more skill EMU find and intelligence than that in which human beings engage the mushroom grower sets spawn in the beia beds h he prepares but the out ant does not need to do this the tha desired spawn blawn soon coon makes its ita appearance in h chewed leat leaf but bat to ill lt its natural state it li is inedible and must undergo a careful treatment before tl it yields th the mushroom which the act deser ei the necessary work Is done by a epee special fat casts caste 0 of gardener act emm these weed out the obnoxious germs etc and pruning off the tips 0 of th the threads preventing them from growing into the air arid and producing useless toad stools As a result of this the threads i twell swell into innumerable little rounded rhote title thickening thicken ings a each of which it is about one fiftieth of au all inch across it Is these which are the mushrooms these curious bodies constitute tb the tolo sole food of 0 the ant or at any rate the chief food |