Time-tested advice
on how to plan, prepare, grow and harvest a bountiful family
vegetable garden.
In proportion to what he is capable of doing, there is not a more
useful animal to man than the toad. He has not bad habits, and in
the pursuit of a livelihood he is sure to benefit some body.
The spawn of the toad, like that of the frog, is deposited in the
water. As soon as the young have attained the use of their legs,
they take to the land, and subsist on such flies, beetles, and
worms, as they are able to swallow-thus in obtaining their
subsistence, rendering a very essential service to the farmer and
gardener. The number of insects in this way destroyed, is immense.
As many as fifteen beetles have been found in the stomach of a
single toad. It feeds mostly in the night, at which time insects
are abroad. It is quite amusing to see the toad seize its prey. In
the dusk of evening, it may be seen through the summer season,
near the places most frequented by insects, snapping up, almost
with the quickness of lightning, every bug or worm that makes its
appearance.
