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Fl(i.'23. Forest TontCntei'pilliir, CUsiofdin/Ki </iss/rii 



The damage caused by cut \v(Mmiis to lettuce, caldtage, cucumbers, 

 (peas, beans and in fact to nearly all young garden crops is a matter 

 only too well understood ])y farmers and it is a pleasure to record 

 that sixteen per cent of the total food of the toad is composed of 

 these nocturnal destroyers of vegetation. These insects remain in 

 concealment during the day and feed by night, hence it is to noc- 

 turnal animals like the toad that the farmer must lo(»k for a mituinl 

 check upon their ravages. 



