ever, that poultry can be helped in getting a start by using a 

 suitable hot air blast torch, something of the kind shown 011 

 last page, not a plumber's torch. The vibrations given forth 

 by the torch will drive the ants out of their nests, together 

 with the eggs, larvae and pupae. 



To refresh the Entomologist's memory of what his assistants 

 have found in this matter, I quote: "In case of danger the 

 workers' first instinct appears to be to remove the voting 

 (eggs, larvae, pupae) to a place of safety and they rearily 

 sacrifice their own lives in order to accomplish this" (Een. 

 Bull. No. 122, p. 40). 



I had shown for the past four years that inasmuch as 

 Louisiana is the original breeding ground of this a-it in this 

 county, and this ant very greatly increases the numbers of the 

 mealy bug on sugar cane,' and the Bureau of Entomology has 

 no tangible means of control at all against the ant on sugar 

 cane or growing crops in general, the use of poultry is the 

 only available solution of the problem. Every insect thus 

 eaten not only means food saved for man, but also means 

 poultry produced. 



In the control of insects affecting cereal-and forage crops 

 poultry grown on an extensive scale has a very wide range of 

 usefulness. This point is pretty well discussed on pages 8 to 

 15 of my Circular No. 155. I had shown as far back as my 

 Circular No. 147 that there is no better way to control the 

 Rocky Mountain locust at large than by maintaining flocks of 

 poultry to patrol the large stretches of low-priced and usually 

 nonagricultural land, also subsequently pointed out the possi- 



