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grain is taken care of, the dry stubble cut away and carried 

 off, the paved area being left unencumbered until the 

 ensuing autumn, when the same ' ant rice ' reappears within 

 the same circle, and receives the same agricultural attention 

 as was bestowed upon the previous crop, and so on year 

 after year, as I know to be the case, in all situations where 

 the ants' settlements are protected from graminivorous 

 animals." 



Buckley also mentions that Dr. Linecum's daughter went 

 daily into the garden to see the ants carry out their corn- 

 stores, which often amounted to more than half a bushel. 



