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1,: 89d A iflilotrces. . i; pgQVINCIAL 50001‘ CAMP k (-11,, Provincial Boy scout camp ma, 13 being held on the farm of w.‘ 51115011 lvleoMillan, rairview, i my in full swing. The boys are ..- instructed in the various leading up to their Second " __ badge, which it is hoped all jul have, before camp breaks up.

bgyg are being instructed in jflmmlng, cord lashing. knot tying, ‘walling etc. [were are about 54 boys atwnd- 1“ the Camp, these were divided pd formed into Patrols numbering nine in each Patrol. Each “mm; an inspection of tents, mete, kitchens and members of “ml is carried on by the Camp [filial and his assistants. At Flag- ged pie Scout Flag is awarded to illeratrol having the greater num- wof points. The first two days it yawn by the Hawk Patrol but jwjfllillg to the manner in which Qt other Patrols are working, it pill not be much longer in their jmesslon. .'l‘he following are the Patrols and

trol members:

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. Beavers

P. L. Bill Thor-ton, George Irlam, men Farrow, Tommy Edget,

i’ Lawson, - Muicom Reeves,

‘Ills Maclnnis, Ned Sinclair, Fred

f yle.

Kangaroos

_, P. L. Sev. Arsenault Reg Dorian, lle Batt, Bill Denny, John

""* George Burnett, Bill W» Sterling Wood, Phil 2d,,

‘ Crows

. hi. Ivan Walsh, Pius Callaghan,

~ - Crockett, Danny Wedge, James

‘ ' l. Boy Gallagher, Bernard

' lief. James Maolnnis, George n. Nelson Seaman.

Hawk

P. L. James Burnett, Gordon " . John Cnsford, Jack McTag-ue, ‘ Manuel, Floyd MacKinnon, ~ Murdock, Harry PlneauRol- 5 l MacKinnon. ' Fox

.1‘. L. Tom Campbell, Heath Car. lWY. George Chandler, Dick Hen- l Y- Robert King, Urban Connors, .2 llh Arsenault, Graham Crosby. Bull. Dolg

; L. Lorne Ives, Percy MacDon-

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Earl Burke. Douglas Bessman, 0W9". Hugh Maururllnon, , " Ulclnnll. met Gsudd. i

"' Week For

Grairi Crops

' (Canadian Tress) ‘draws. 0nt., July Zil-Exces- ..‘ l! high temperatures, hot winds i. l almost negligible rainfall made -, - Dist weelr one of the most dis- "'11s of the season for western

'- Brain crops, says the Do- '- Bureau of Statistics today its latest report on conditions in

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“ V fancy, have never fully developed.

Living Honey ' Pots

(By H. P. Leonard) .

The wonderful, six-sided honey- pot of the bee is a. common object on every breakfast table,‘ but the Mexican honey-ant, which stores her liquid treasure in her own dis- tended orol). l8 a novelty to most readers. These ants were first studied in Mexico by Pablo do lilave in 1832; but ants have no respect for ha- tional boundaries. and the follow- ing is based on long-continued ob- servation of these ants at Point Lo- ma, California. It was not until after ton years’ residence that I dis- covered them, for the very good cea- son that they seldom venture above ground until after sunset. If you look down the spacious en- trance of their underground city in the late afternoon you may see a little group of ants waving their an- tennae, and waiting impatiently for the sun to go down. There is some- thing frail and unsubstantiai about these semi-transparent insects, and one may easily imagine them to have been delicately carved out of pale amber. In their crowded communities there are three castes, the vast ma- lorlty being females, who from sys- tematic underfeedlng in their in-

It is a strange fact that if ever the nest should be without a. “queen," one of these maiden ants is able to produce eggs from which male off- spring are hatched! This caste of female workers has three grades- the majors, the minors, and the minims-the only difference being one of size. Had they received a more generous diet there is little doubt that they would all have de- veloped into queens, or laying fe- males.

The queen is of a dark brown col- or and much larger than the work- ers. When first she bursts out of her silken cocoon she ispossessed of two pairs of‘ transparent wings, which glitter in the sunshine with all the colors of the rainbow; but when she comes to earth after the marriage flight in order to found a colony, she turns round and- delib. erately bites them off. Her future days will all be passed in caverns underground, where wings would Only be a. useless encumbrance.

The mules are jet-black and have well-developed eyes, but they are quite unfitted for labor and spend their lives as elegant loafers sup- ported by thel: hard-working sisters. If ever an ant is seen engaged in useful work she may safely be put down as a female. The male ant has so little intelligence that if ever he ventures to step outside the nest it ls always more or less doubtful whether he will ever find his way home again,

The "repletes"'who store the hon- ey in their crops are simply work- ers, and usually workers of the ma- jor caste. By what, to an ant, must appear as an act of supreme self- denial, they renounce the chief pleasure of their lives, incessant toil, and rlihmlt to serve the com- munity in the capacity of mere animated honey-pots. Hence-Pr ward they Cling to the vaulted roofs of the caverns underground and guard the liquid treasure of the‘ nest. Their sole duty is to swallow the nectar as it is brought in by the foraging ants, and to regurgitaie n. drop or two wheneve: required to do so by a hungry‘ comrade. "Peplete" means thoroughly full, and the word ex- actly describes the condition of these ants. The crop becomes so distend- ed that it appears to occupy the whole abdomen, which becomes al- most spherical. They aomewhat re- semble a white current with the head and thorax of an ant protrud- ing from one of the ends. In Mexico the honey ant is used as an article of diet. The helpless insects are simply served in a dish, from which they are powerless to escape, and their contents are squeezed into the mouth, while the head and thorax are rejected. There is no digestl In of the honey while it remains in the

crop of the replete, and with its

smooth, hard walls it is Just as cleanly a container as a glass bm-

tie.

Mowers are not the only sources of honey exploited by these ants,

and I have seen them by lantern

light "milking" the aphides on the

young shoots of a rose-bush. It has

been calculated that in an old- sot-

ablishod nest there may be as much

as a quarto: of a. pound of honey

stored in the crops of repletes. Their

behavior towards ants less fortun-

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ate than themselves appears toler- ant and kindly. One night, while the inmates of a nest were enjoying a meal of honey and water which I had provided, a little company of black ants pushed their way in to share in the feast; but there was no resentment at the intrusion of the ill-mannered strangers.

About half an hour after: sunset a. noiseless stream of these ghostlikc insects issues from the entrance of the nest. Each ant grasps in her mandibles a little pellet of sand grains, which she carries a short distance and then drops, hurrying back into the nest for more. All through the night the moving mul- titudes pass in and out, and the gradual extension of the galleries below is continued without interrup- tion, with the exceptionof a few dry, hot days at the end of the sum- mer. I was fortunate in finding a nest at the edge of a smooth and level slab of concrete, and as the ants deposit their rubbish within a few feet of the nest entrance, I was thus enabled to calculate the total amount brought to the surface dur- ing the night. A careful sweeping

‘of tho slab produccd as much soil

as would almost 1111712. cubic inch masure. Assuming that an equal

not be measured, we may say that

very nearly two cubic inches is ex- cavated every night.

Although these ants dislike the sunshlne, they have very little ob- jection to the lantern which rused in my observations. Sometimes a loaded worker would pause for a moment at the nest entrance as though embarrassed by the unex- pected glare; but so long as yW took care not to breathe upon them they pay very little attention to your presence. Prom time to time a for- aging ant returned to the nest with a small moth and dragged it down below with difficulty, or a little company of two or three miahil b9 seen struggling with a dead bee. They seldom kill theiltmeak but are quite oonpnt with the carcasses of insects which thew find scattered about.

Most of the honey is 8891161111 during the spring, and after 111m! months of anxious waiting, the writ- er will never forget his delight on seeing a compact column of ants ltream out of the nest one evening in March, and proceed at full speed towards a popper tree . . us mol- Ie) just coming into bloom. For two nights it secured as though the entire population were out gather-

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tended they dragged themselves along with some difficulty. My 0b- servations on captive K1158. k911i l“ a glass tumbler, show that as soon as a loaded worker arrives under- ground she makes her way to a rc- plem and discharges the contents of her crop into her mouth. It may take as much as three minutes to transfer the honey to the crop of the replete. The honey can clearly be seen through the transparent skin and varies e. good deal 1n col- or accordlng to its source. Rellleies dug up among the wild sage bushes look like drops of clearest water, while those found in other situa- tions appear to be filled with mo- losses.

The care of their young is an ah- sorbing passion among these ants, but it is only the childless, elder sis- ters of the fat, white grubs who take any part in this work. In my tumble: of captive ants the devoted nurses might be seen at any hour of the day, or night attending to the wants of their charges in the cool moist caverns at the bottom of the glass. The ant-babies are pro- tected from actual contact with the ground by tiny, upright bristles PIO- jecting from the skin. Here one could watch them feeding the lar-

quecn‘s eggs into their mouths. It is only about one egg in ten that is al- lowed to hatch, the other nine being treated as provisions and carefully stored for future use. They never seem to tire of licking the larvae in order to rid them of the spores of mould which. if neglected, would develop into deadly vegetable para- sites; and they carry them from one chamber to another according to the varying conditions of heat and moisture.