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St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1909-07-23

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9ngger mon Meolen1stallene for
Sprogforeningen (4711), Gnlgerfor=
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G0S0) lammel1, iaos ialt 1922
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The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
The ARGENTINE ANT
EhCARG

he could give out everything accurate
ly, but he granted me permission to
print what he had accomplished.
In the field in which he has been
at work every garden and vacant lot in
several square miles is the roof of an
enormous ant house. The ants are
everywhere. Their tiny burrows ex-
tend under every piece of ground. The
imagination is staggered at their num-
bers in that limited territory Their
nests are so thick as to form one com
munity of gigantic proportions. And
as there are no feuds existing between
families, as is usual with ants. they
direct their attention solely toward
work, which, from the human point of
view. is destruction.
Housewives keep all food on tables
which either stand in bowls of con-
stantly changed water or suspended
from the ceiling by wires wrapped in
kerosene soaked cloth. Even then the
ants make the dangerous passage
either on the backs of the dead who
precede them or on the thin dust that
accumulates on water within a few
hours A crumb dropped on the floor
has black stream passing to and from
1t within minute, the scouting ants
quickly discovering new forage
But more important yet, aphis are
thick on all the trees and bushes. In
vestigation has proved that the ants
protect these from parasites and the
ladybugs. and move the little lice from
leaf to leaf, carrying them carefully
so Is not to injure them. This friendly
action is due to a selfish cause, the ants
preferring to all other food the honey
dew excreted by the aphids They kill
the winged parasites. preventing them
from laying their eggs among the eggs
of the aphids, and fight the ladybugs
in person, rushing them in bodies and
literally rending them from limb to
limb. In consequences the aphids work
unmolested, and kill the trees.
OF fruits the oranges are in the
greatest danger. AS soon as the bios
som opens. the Argentine ants swarm
up the trees until each flower is black
with them, and looks at a distance like
plum. They destroy all the blossoms
on every tree and finish the crop be-
fore 1t is started. In Louisiana the
orange crop was once important Now,
in the affected districts, there Is none
The ant life history, as studied by
Mr.. Day, showed that the larvae which
had not hatched last fall Matched early
this spring and that from these long
dormant eggs the queens were Matched.
Many drones and workers also hatched
at that time, but no queens hatched
later. The existing queens and the new
ones then began to lay, the new ones
beginning a month later than the 9TH
ers. All have been laying at the rate
of 40 eggs a day ever since May and
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22

creatures OF the nefd would soon be
gorged and lazy.
The -anchmen. having the fate Of
the Humboldt valley well in mind. Sc
cured government cooperation and all
directed their afternoon toward fight
ing the plague under the direction OF
the biologists. Each acre was a bat
tlegropnd. to be won and lost and won
again dozen times. The fight was so
steady. however, and the mice were so
diligently poisoned that the plague did
no. grow worse. BY the use OF alfalfa
hay poisoned with strychnia sulphate.
next winter. the last of the mice Will
disappear and the plague will be ended
1t takes several seasons for a mouse
plague to get under way. but once in
full swing it is very difficult and eX-
pensive to stop In valleys which have
escaped the plague the ranchmen are
inclined TO make light Of the busy lit
tie animals but they learn before
second season is passed that they have
host on their hands.
To show the danger, the government
has sent reports of the mouse plaques
conquered TO the ranchmen in the val
leys likely TO be affected. and where
these have been read the ranchmen
are on the lookout for any unusually
large mouse families
The tiny little animal which produces
the plague is generally called the
black mouse" or carson mouse" Its
kind has been busily destroying crops
the world over, but never showed as a
serious menace in North America until
the plague Of them. which Is now being
conquered. The black mouse lives in
most OF the fntermorntain country. IN
the valleys Of Utah, Nevada. north
eastern California ana eastern Oregon.
The valleys in which il Is found ara
all restricted by the surrounding noun
tains and end in some interior lake
In consequence concerted EFFORT can
usually be made successfully against
than
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22

The mice seem so small and harm
lessI The ranchers pay no attention to
them At ali until they have thoroughly
established themselves. BY that tins
they are caught like Gulliver IN the
Land Of Lilliput. Eager as the LiIlipu-
tians tying each of Gulliver's hairs to
a stake. they have set upon every liv-
ing thing in sight. But, instead of
searching the land for something big
enough to feed their Gulliver from,
they are busy destroying the last of
his crop.
Millions of dollars worth of grain
hay and fruit trees have been killed
by them-s3o0.000 in the lower Hum
boldt valley in Nevada alone. A way
to get rid Of them has been discovered
now, but before the geologists Of the
department of agriculture took hand.
there seemed to be no effective poison.
Wheat soaked in a deadly solution of
phosphorus in carbon bisulphid. a cheap
and effective poison, was generally the
first remedy tried by the ranchers. 1t
killed mice, but everything else too.
Animal life of every kind was de-
stroyed, and the birds that flew that
way found death. the larks and meadow
larks suffering along with the mag
pies and crows. The skunks and coy
otes then came in and ate the poisoned
mice and birds and they also died.
The rancher. can not afford to lose
these, his best friends. Perhaps ranch
ers, who have never been afflicted with
a plague of mice, will look little
askance at the naming of skunks and
coyotes as among his intimates. but
where the mice have once been. these
despised animals are sacred. And along
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22

safras and cirronella, tree tanglefoot,
zenoleum, naphthaline, coal tar disin-
fectants. whale oil soap, sharp edges OF
tin and fur have all been used as bar
riers without success
AS the queens often live a dozen
years, each laying 5000 eggs summer,
the increase reaches the astounding
figure of 100000 per cent annually.
Ten years, Professor Woodwork be-
lieves, will be ample time for the ants
to take possession of the whole state
unless something drastic is done while
there is a chance.
Considering this awful possibility,
the results obtained by Mr.. Day are es-
pecially important. Studying the life
history of the ants, he discovered two
vulnerable points; one that the work
ers will carry poison home to the
queens, and the other that the queens
all hatch from the larvae which have
laid undeveloped all winter. Later.
he expects to find way of destroying
these brooding larvae during the win
ter, but at present he is confning his
attention to perfecting his poisoning
system.
This, as mentioned, has the distinct
advantage of being easily conducted.
Recently 10 or more people day have
been at the experiment station to re-
ceive instructions in handling IL, and
the result has already been the death
of untold millions of ants. If the
people in the affected district in East
Oakland or in any other section make
a concerted effort. they can reduce the
ants to / or 2 per cent of what they are
at present. 1t will take continuous
action, but very little on the part Of
any one person.
Mr.. Days own experiments with one
block will give point to this statement.
When he first experimental with poison
in syrup, he chose double block in the
district where the ants were thickest
There are 32 houses on it. with many
fr1ft trees and large gardens. Things
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22

clover. and here the mice propegated
and fed OF the land until they had
laid waste tracts OF thousands of
acres. In large sections they are still
busily at work.
Then the plague began to spread
over a wide area. It became an in
vasion and the birth rate-the most
potent agency for the spread OF the
plague-was 1000 per cent Mice in
alarming abundance began to appear
in widely separated districts. Those
suffering most were the Honey lake
valley. California, King river. Quinn
river, Carson and Smith valleys in Ne
vada and even the Weber river valley
and Utah and Sanpete counties. Utah.
The character of the valleys attacked
is identical-fertile alluvial plains
bordered by dry, barren hills
The second of the larger mice plaques.
and the one most recently conquered.
was in the Carson valley, 100 miles
south OF Lovelocks. Word of the trf-
umphs in the Humboldt valley had
spread to this section, but the need of
help was not so great. as the valley was
particularly well favored with coyotes.
hawks, owls and weasels. On one ranch
containing less than 5000 acres, where
the birds and animals were not inter
fered with, 1t was estimated that they
were killing over 10000 mice a day. but
even that was not enough to stop the
plague. The fields were overrun with
animals and the fences lined with birds,
all seemingly unafraid. either intui-
lively knowing that they were not to
be molested, or too engrossed in the
ravenous devouring 90 give heed to
caution.
Early last spring it was discovered
that 25 per cent of the crop. in spite
of this protection, was already de-
stroyed and that each female mouse
was about to have a family of eight or
ten. It was plain that no ordinary
remedy would do Even the friendly
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Fruityale. from the estuary to the hills.
During the unmolested years they have
also secured free trips to Alameda,
San Francisco, Stockton, San Jose, Los
Angeles, Ontario, Riverside and other
southern California points.
Until last summer California was ig-
norant of the menace. The communi-
ties affected had complained ineffee-
tually of the bother of keeping away
the ants, but 1t was not until ]. C.
Bradley. an entomologist connected
with the University of California.
gathered a few specimens and, not be-
ing able to classify them, sent the
specimens to Prof. w. II. Wheeler of
the American museum of natural his
tory that the awful truth was known.
Argentine anti 1t sounds portentous,
and 1t IL.
Prof. c. W. Woodwork of the col
lege OF agriculture, hearing the un-
pleasant news. lost no time. He made
a trip TO New ORLEANS to learn what
had been done there and returned i'm
mediately to establish an experiment
station in the midst of the largest col
ony IN California, that in East Oakland.
last October he rented a house at 11SS
East Twenty-second street, fitted it out
with the proper apparatus, and placed
assistants In charge. Little. however,
COUlQ De OO0c IN tue Ialls dS the ANTS
were holing up for the winter.
Last February L. H. Day, formerly
entomologist for San -Benito county,
was placed in charge of the active work
by Professor Woodwork and after
months spent In studying the life habits
and experimenting with poison, he has
succeeded IN reducing them to a few
per cent OF their former numbers wher-
ever he has worked.
His remedy is simple easy to use
and not dangerous to children, animals.
birds or bees. He fills a sponge with
syrup. places 1t in a small fruit Jar,
screws on the top, making a few holes
IN IL With q nail. and sets the con-
trivance in the garden.
The ants, always in search OF food,
soon find 1t. and the word is passed to
all the ant colonies within several
hundred feet. After they have fed off
the sponge for several days and q
hundred million ants or so are receiv-
ing some part of their nourishment
from IT, he puts poison in the syrup.
BY this time the lines of ants from
the different nests are well established
and they carry away the poison to
their queens. Within a few days the
nests are filled with the dead.
Day had just come TO the conclusion
that he had solved the problem, but
had few points yet to cover when
I visited him at the experiment sta
ton. Being a scientist, he was not
ready to announce his discoveries until