Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1918 — Pays to Keep a Toad. [ARTICLE]

Pays to Keep a Toad.

The toad is useful because of its diet No less than eighty-three species of insects, mostly injurious, have been proved to enter into its dietary. In his “Civic Biology” George W. Hunter savs: “A toad has been observed to snap up 128 flies in half ap hour. Thus at a low estimate it could easily destroy a thousand insects during a day, md do an immense service to the garden during the Summer./- It has been estimated by KirAind that a single toad may, on account of the cutworms which it kills, be worth $19.88 each season it lives, if the damage done bv each cutworm be estimated at ortly one cent. Toads also feed upon slugs and other garden pests.”—Popular Science Monthly.