TEXAS— TOADS 



1965 



PRODUCT 



Cider 



Vinegar 



Wine and grape juice 



Dried fruita 



* Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. 



Farms reporting, 1909 



Number 



114 

 572 

 731 

 S63 



Per cent of 

 all farms 



(') 

 O.I 

 0.2 

 0.1 



Quantity produced 



Unit 



Gals. 

 Gals. 

 Gals. 

 Lba 



4,803 

 10,039 

 42,036 

 26,189 



1899 



55,566 

 43,659 

 104,987 

 84,630 



Frost and Precipitation in Texas 



Southern Texas 



For Bloom Periods of Apples, see Louds- 

 iana. 



TnERM.\L Belts. See Selecting Site for 

 an Orchard, under Apple Orchard. 



Timbered Land, Preparation of. See 

 under Apple Orchard. 



Toads 



Although he is a lowly creature and 

 not beautiful to see, the toad may be just 

 as valuable as some of the more valuable 

 birds whom we have come to prize be- 

 cause we have learned what they have 

 done for us. Besides, Mr. Toad seems to 

 realize that he is not beautiful and so 

 keeps out of sight most of the time, per- 

 forming his useful labors at night. 



The toad lives several years and if he 

 is treated well will remain in the same 



feeding-ground all his life. He lives 

 mostly upon worms and bugs, the largest 

 percentage of which are harmful to man 

 in some way. He eats a few angleworms, 

 but we will give him all he wants of these 

 if he will only keep up his war on the cut- 

 worms, which he takes especial delight in 

 devouring. The cutworm does his work 

 at night, and that just suits Mr. Toad. 

 Hopping about under the cabbage plants 

 or the beans in the evening, he locates the 

 cutworm at his work and, quicker than 

 "scat," down he goes to trouble us no 

 more! By counting the worms in the 

 stomachs of many toads it has been esti- 

 mated that during May, ,lune and July a 

 full-grown toad will eat 2,160 cutworms. 

 Gardeners sometimes pay as high as a 

 cent apiece for cutworms. At this rate a 



