TEXAS— TOADS 



1965 



PRODUCT 



Faxms reporting, 1909 



Quantity produced 





Number 



Per cent of 

 all farms 



Unit 



1909 



1899 



Cider 



Vmegar 



Wine and grape jmce 



Dried fruits 



« 



114 

 572 

 731 

 563 



1 

 2 

 1 



Gals 



Gals 



Gals 



Lbs 



4,803 

 10,039 

 42,036 

 26,189 



55,566 



43 669 



104.987 



84,630 



1 Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent 



Frost and Precipitation in Texas 



Station 



Amarillo 



Mt Blenco 



Pans 



Abilene 



Dallas 



Longview 



El Paso 



Waco 



Palestine 



MenardviUe 



College Station 



Fredericksburg 



Houston 



Fort Clark 



San Antonio 



Galveston 



Beeville 



Corpus Christi 



Fort Brown 



Frost 



Ave rage Dat e of 

 First 



Killing in 

 Autumn 



Nov. 7 

 Oct 30 

 Nov 15 

 Nov. 15 

 Nov 15 

 Nov. 16 

 Nov. 10 

 Nov. 10 

 Nov. 13 

 Nov. 12 

 Nov. 20 

 Nov. 15 

 Nov. 27 

 Nov. 18 

 Nov. 30 

 Dec. 25 

 Dec. 7 

 Dec. 25 

 Dec. 13 



Last 



in 

 Spring 



April 12 



April 10 



Mar. 28 



Mar. 15 



Mar. 26 



Mar. 19 



Mar. 20 



Mar. 16 



Mar. 13 



Mar. 31 



Mar. 5 



Mar. 17 



Feb. 21 



Feb. 22 



Feb. 25 



Feb. 5 



Feb. 18 



Feb. 27 



Feb. 18 



Date of 



First 



in 



Autumn 



Oct. 16 

 Oct. 18 

 Nov. 3 

 Oct 25 

 Nov 3 

 Oct 26 

 Oct 30 

 Nov. 3 

 Oct. 20 

 Oct. 24 

 Nov. 3 

 Oct. 21 

 Nov. 4 

 Nov. 2 

 Nov. 9 

 Dec. 4 

 Oct. 21 

 Nov. 30 

 Nov. 15 



IT J. 



Last 



in 

 Spring 



Precipitation 



Annual 

 mches 



May 



23 



21 9 



April 



30 



15 6 



April 



12 



33 3 



April 



7 



24 5 



May- 



1 



36 8 



Mar 



31 



47 2 



April 



22 



9 3 



April 



5 



35 4 



Mar 



30 



44 5 



May 



1 



22 6 



Mar. 



24 



37.8 



Mar. 



28 



28 4 



Mar. 



26 



48 2 



Mar. 



19 



23 4 



Mar. 



19 



26.7 



Mar. 



1 



47 6 



Mar. 



6 



28 9 



Mar. 



19 



26 8 



Mar. 



5 



28.2 



Sontheni Texas 



For Bloom Periods of Apples, see Loims- 



iana. 



Theemal Belts. See Selecting Site for 

 an Orchard, under Apple Orchard. 



Timbered Land, Pbbparation of. See 

 under Apple Orchard, 



Toads 



Althougli 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 ns. Besides, Mr. Toad seems to 

 realize that he is not beautiful and so 

 Isieeps 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 gire 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, June 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 



