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rwV" tt The Commoner. .. kyOLTJM4,NUMBER 1&, 16 ys K v it k. ft l.ooo Bird to Square Mile. NnmniMifimBhlro. as ovory fisher man knows, is tho best county in En gland for worms, and It is noar Not tingham that thoro lives an enthusiast who has nrndo a special btudy of earth worms. Ho has recently published It as his opinion that tho average culti vated land of thc&o islands contains 53,800 worms to tho acie, and ho cal culates tho weight of this number at 36G pounds. Their tubes go down fre quently as much as tour feet, and somotlmes to a dopth of six feet; and It is computed thai they raise to tho surfaco no loss than fifteen tonB of soil yoarly on every acre. Few pcoplo oxcopt naturalists over consider the enormous amount of lifo other than human which oxlsts all over tho country, ovon In thooo parts which are most populous. Tho plaguo of rates which recontly inlested London has lod to a rough calculation that thoro aro moro than 20,000,000 of these rodents within tho area of Greater Loudon, or moro than three times as many rates ns people. Sparrows come next in point of num bor among London's warm blooded population. They must also bo counted by tho million, for they average at least twenty to tho aero, which would mako tho county of London hold l,b08, 040 of theso little birds. Cultivated country districts are said, by a well known ornithologist, to con tain from 700 to 1,000 birds to tho square milo. Put tho average for the wholo of tho United Kingdom, includ ing woods, waters, mojrs and moun tains, at 800, and wo have the aston ishing total of nearly 97 millions for the wholo Kingdomthat is to say, our CLUB LIST. nyoneoltho following will bo sent with THE COMMONER, both one year, lor tho club price. PcrloillcnlH mny be pent to dlflorcnt addresses 11 desired. Your frlcndB mny wish to join with you In sending for n combination. Alfsnbscrln IJojib nro or ono yenr, nnd 1 new, begin with tho current number unless otherwise directed. Pres ent subscribers need notwnlt until their sub scriptions expire. Kcnownls received now will be entered lor n full yenr from expiration date. Subscriptions for Literary Digest and Public Opinion must bo new. llcnowals lor these two not accepted. Foreign postage extra. The Parker Song. AGRICULTURAL. Prlco Agricultural Epltomlst, mo S .60 Ilrecdcr'naaTCtte, yk ,.... 2.00 CampboU'sSollCulturo, mo 100 Furm nnd Home, scml-mo 50 Fnrra, FioUl nnd Fireside, wk 1.00 Farm, Stock and Homo, soml-mo.. . .50 Farmer's Wife, mo 50 Homo nnd Farm, scml-mo .50 Irrigation Age, mo 1.00 Kansas Farmer, wk 1.00 Missouri Valley Farmer, mo 50 Orango Judd Farmer, wk 1.00 Poultry Success. .. 50 Poultry Topics, mo '26 Practical Farmer, wk 1.00 Pralrlo Farmor.wk 1.00 1 ltollnblo Poultry Journal, mo 50 western Swlno Breeder, mo 50 NEWSPAPERS. Reg. Prlco Atlnnta Constitution, wk $1.00 Cincinnati Enquirer, wk 1.00 Indianapolis Sentinel, wk, 50 Kansas City World Daily 8.00 Kansas City World, da. cxc. Sun. .. 1.50 Nebraska Independent, wk. ........ 1.00 Kocky Mountain News-Times, wk.. 1.00 Bcattlo Times, wk l.oo Thrice-tt-Wcek N, Y. World 1.00 Wachtcrund Anzolgor, Sunday.,.. 1.50 World-Hcrald, twlcc-a-wcek 1.00 Bill in -i.hii iBiwinjiiiDJj.iij nun nmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm "If my opinions you would know, ask of August, Dave and Joe!" - Clnh Price 91.20 2.'25 1.85 1.00 I 1.35 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.85 1.00 1.00 1.10 1.10 l.tiO 1.S5 1.00 1.00 1.00 Club Price 51.85 1.35 1.00 8.00 2.00 1.35 1.60 1.35 1.35 1.85 1.35 MAQAZINES. , ,.i Prlc Cosmopolitan, mo 51,00 Good Housekeeping, mo 1.00 Fearson's Magazine, mo 1,00 Pilgrim, mo 1.00 .Review ot KoYiowa, mo 2.50 Success, mo 1.00 Twentieth Century Home, mo 1.00 woman's Homo Companion, mo... 1.00 Club Prlco 11.35 1.35 1.50 1,85 2.85 1.65 1.85 1.45 MISCELLANEOUS. Reg. Prlco Literary Digest, (now) wk $3.00 Public Opinion, (now) wk 4.00 The Public, wkA........... I.. "'.; 2ioO Windlo'a Gatling Gun, mo 1.00 Note. Clubbing Combinations or premiun Herald, or Kansas City World, or Farm, Stock and Homo appears, are not open to resident of So puKl eVd W thoPftPe"- nned Club Prlco 18.00 4.00 2.25 1.35 ircmium bird population outnumbers tho hu man by more than two to one. As for the insect population, that Is quite beyond any statistician to figure out; but the fact that each bird cer tainly consumes, on an average, fifty insects a day, may give tne person wuo tries to imagine it some faint idea of the terrific figures needed to ex press it. At this rate our birds eat more than 16,000 million insects in a year, xet such an estimate as this is absolutely futile when we consider tiiat tne insect population of a single cherry tree infested with aphides was calculated by no less an authority than Miss Omerod, at 12 millions. Lord Avebury once calculated that a single ants' nest might contain as many as 400,000 individual insects. Recent researches have showD that theso figures were too high, yet the actual facts are astonishing enough. Monsieur Yung, a French entomolog ist, has killed the ants in five hills by means of a noisonoua cas. nnfl linrinr- takon tho prodigious labor of counting the dead. The results, beginning from the smallest hill, wore respectively as follows: 17,828, 19,333, 53,018, 64,740 and 93,964. The real figures probably averaged 5,000 higher In each case, as no allow ance was made by Monsier Yung for absent and escaped ants. Tho United Kingdom has of horses 2,028,099; of cattle, 11,344,881; of sheep, moro than 31,500,000, and rather over 4,000,000 of pigs. Prom theso fig ures It is plain that the domestic ani mals of this country tar outnumber the human beings who inhabit it. This calculation takes no account of cats or of dogs. Of the latter wo have fairly good statistics, for wo know how many licenses are taken out for dogs in a year. Last year the number was just under 1,500,000. Ada to this amount shepherds' dogs, which are un taxed, and nunnion nrwW tnvow , and tho total figures wilJ. be fully 2,- 000,000. Cats are commonly supposed to outnumber dogs about two and half to one. Thus there are 7,000,000 cats and dogs in these islands. One other important domestic cre ature has not yet been mentioned. The poultry owned in this Kingdom are decidedly more numerous than tho people to whom they belong. Includ ing chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese, the number is nearly 50,000,000. London Answers. m - (i TO THE Readers of The Commoner; Have You in Your Library The Jeffersonian Encyclopedia, Recently published by. Funk '& Wagnalls Com pany? If not you ought to procure it at dnce. No democrat can afford to be without it. It contains about a thousand nnaa ;i -u i..j ; -wii JJ b"6 at W.B0, or in more expensive bindings at jk T.nf"i;.::: Jyr l? un wagons, ipTf -n ? ' New x ork Ult7? nd secure a copy. a ne Encyclopedia contains Jefferson's sayings and writings on all important subjects, And Jk in diipensable to those who re studying the icience 01 government, fr, - a 7.j. r . ? !. v W1U a uoiuqprauc standpoint. 'JiL iVA &gi&i4Z-jr. L T.jg1. r jji' Hm'mm'7ijiZ' dT y T' rfT mil ml'1w' I; 1 )i Tn r ,Sn -ii-t JL ."t,4 SW'