Toads as Insect Destroyers
THE wonderful insect-killing capacity of the toad is known in a general way to the enlightened few, says Country Life in America. An imported colony of toads may be the salvation of a flower garden. We now have some interesting figures which show that every toad in the garden may be worth twenty dollars or more. Many gardeners give their children a cent apiece for every cutworm destroyed, considering this a low estimate of the damage caused by these insects. From May 1 to August 1 a toad may destroy 2,160 cutworms, which it would cost $21.60 to destroy by hand. English gardeners are said to pay as much as twenty-five dollars a hundred for toads for colonizing purposes.—Christian Advocate.