The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1922-03-17
Many Different Ways in Which
They Provide Against Long
Cold Season.
man USES HABITS OF BEES
Earthworms Drag Leaves Into Their
Burrows to Provide Food and
Comfort for Winter-Why
Honey Is Stored.

New York.-There are many differ
ent ways in which animals meet the
winter. Many go into winter quarters
and. reducing their expenditure to a
minimum, lie low until the spring calls
them again to action. Others, like the
wolves, continue to live dangerously.
simply sharpening their wits and In
creasing the keenness of their hunt
ing. Some, like the ermine and the
ptarmigan, don a white dress, which
is both safe and comfortable.
Others solve the problem by a
change In habitat-notably the migra-
tory birds. There are several other
solutions Of the problem. and one or
these is to lay up stores, to hoard
to save. Many animals do this inside
their bodies.
Habit Is Acquisitive.
A beginning of storing may be
looked for perhaps in activities like
those of earthworms, which collect
leaves and drag them down into their
burrows, ut once making them more
comfortable and providing a supply
of food for rainy day. 1t Is surely
the acquisitive habit that they have,
these earthworms, for more than four
score leaflets were taken from one
burrow.
With insects we find an inclined
plane of storing that leads up to the
climax illustrated by hive bees and
by some of the ants. Among the
solitary bees the mother makes a
store for the brood which she never
survives to see; among humble bees
the store Is begun by the mother, but
continued by her worker children, and
in some kinds at least part OF the
society survives the winter; In some
tropical bees there are permanent
societiea and imperfect combs: in the
hive bees there are permanent societies
and perfect combs.
The elaborate storing Of hive bees,
carried to such perfection under men
s.nre, Is, to begin with, connected with
surviving the winter. e., with per-
nanence, and with the survival Of the
mothers ere their offspring grow up
l. e, with the possibility of social
tradition.
II is impossible to think of storing
without vision of Solomon's ant
switch. having no guide, overseer, OF
ruler provideth her meat in the sum
mer and gathereth her food In the
harvest" And. as among bees, we find
all grades among ants from those that
do not store mt all to those that make
q fine art of 1t.
According to recent studies of the
common Mediterranean harvesting
ant, the seeds which are collected are
kept for time dry and are eventually
put out in the rain to terminate. This
hEs the advantage Of bursting the
hard seed coats and in some cases OF
stnrting processes of fermentation.
At certain stage, however. the
ants kill the embryo plant by biting
at it, and the seeds tire dried again in
the sun. The dried seeds of some
csOverlike plants. for instance. are
then taken back into the nest ant
chewed into dough. This Is dried once
sgain in the sun in the form of little
biscuits, which are eventually put into
Che cupboard.
Culture for Molds.
II Is likely that different kinds OF
sssds receive different treatment ant
n some cases it seems that the stored
used as culture for molds Of which