Facts About The Toad

The toad lives ten to forty years, I does not begin to produce young until the fourth year, but then lays over 1,000 eggs a year. It has lived two years without food, but cannot live long under water. It never takes dead or motionless food. It takes it food by weans of lts tongue alone, and it operates this so rapidly that the eye cannot follow its motions. It captures and devours bees, wasps, yellow ackets, ants, beetles, worma, spiders, snails, bugs, grasshoppers, crickets, weevils, aterpillars, moths, etc. The stomach that doesn't flinch at yellow jackets, wasps, blister beetles, and cliok-beetles or pinch bugs would seem to be prerared for anything in the insect Une, and it doubtless is. In. twenty-four hours the toad, consumes enough food to fill its stomach four times. A single toad wlll In three months devour over 10,000 insects. If every ten of these would have done one cent (.lamage the toad has saved $10. JSvidently the toad is a valuable fi'tend to the farmer, ! p;ardener and fruit grewer, and can be made espeeially useful in the green: house garden and berry patch.