GO TO THE ANT | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 14, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 46.

"GO TO THE ANT."

THE German botanist, Alfred Möller, tho not a sluggard, has gone to the ant and considered her ways, and a writer in Good Words tells of the wisdom which accrued therefrom. He discovered that tropical ants never eat the pieces of leaves which they may sometimes be seen carrying. Instead, they knead them for a quarter of an hour, forming them into doughy little pellets. These form a vegetable soil, over which a fungus grows, on the surface of which appear little knobs of mushrooms about the size of a pin-head. These mushrooms are the only food of the ants, who work hard at fetching and kneading leaves all their lives.