The Naturalist

Dueks are the most effective destroyers of grassboppers. The ordinary honey bee weifihs the one five-thousandtk part of a pouud when uot loaded. When loaded, 1,800 bees will make a pouud. It is estirnated that this country produces 180,000,000 turkeys every year to grace the tables at Tbauksgiviug, Ohriatmaa aud ou other occasions. The aphkles are the milk kiue of tb? ants and are regularly approaclied and milked by the latter. Ants have been known to keep the aphides in captivity, as cows are kept in citie-s. In the middle ages the cuckoo was thought to be a god who took the forni of a bird, and it was a sacrilege to kill him. The Romans were less superstitious and more practical. They caught him, killed him and ate him, aud held uo bird could be coiupared with him for sweetuess of flesh.