Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-04-12 | Page 10 | Killing Ants with Cannon

KILLING ANTS WITH CANNON, jt is hard to imagine big guns killing anything except men and horseB. la South Africa and. other tropical countries, however, they are used to kill ants. These ants are as highly organized as the Huns. They live In a republic of their own, and are divided into classes of workmen, soldiers and queens. The workmen construct the huge neBts, soldiers defend them and keep order, and the females, or queens, are cared for by all the others. The ant heaps of these particular ants are often twenty feet high and pyramidal in shape. Cattle climb upon them without crush' I ing them. A dozen men 'can find shelter in some of their chambers, and native hunters often lie in wait inside them when out after wild animals after the nests have been deserted, of course. The ants construct galleries I which are as wide as the bore of a cannon, and which run three or j four feet underground. If we built I houses as big in proportion a work- I in&man would live in a dwelling as I - big as a pyramid of Egypt. These ants are frightfully de- I structiye, and the only way to kill 1 them off is to blow them and their 9 nests to pieces with guns loaded I with grapeshot. Toronto Mail and I Express.