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PERSEVERANCE OF ANTS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 19, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 16.

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PERSEVERANCE OF ANTS.

ONE summer a country house was so overrun by ants that the owner, after destroying a large ant-hill near the house, and collecting the numerous pupae for poultry feed, laid sticky fly-paper before the door of the house, in such a manner that the ants could not enter without crossing it. In the morning he found his poultry feed gone and the fly-paper covered with it, over which the ants had passed "dry shod." The ant-hill had also been rebuilt during the night.