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TENANTS OF AN OLD FARM. 



FIG. 115. — GRANAIIIES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HARVESTER. 



after one side had been dug away, and this (Fig. 113) is 

 one of the granaries cut out of tlie soil in whicli it was 

 dug. These letters, E, E, (Fig. 112) show store-rooms or 

 granaries in which quantities of seeds were placed, and 

 these G, G, are galleries that connect them. T saw 

 some of these Occident Ants gathering wild sunflower 

 seeds in the Garden-of-the-gods, and our next picture 

 shows her mounted upon the liower and tugging away 

 at a seed with all her might. (Fig. 114.) 



"Indeed, we need not go to Texas or Colorado or 

 Florida to find American harvesting-ants. Eight here 

 in our own neighborhood, in the field in which this 

 church stands, in the orchard-walk at Shadybank over 

 the way, and in various places around the Old Farm 

 where T live, there is a little black ant, the Penns3'lvania 

 Harvester [I'litidole Pennsyh-anicKs)^ who harvests seed, 

 and hei'e is a drawing of two of its granaries (Fig. 11").) 



