Note IQ — Chapter XI · ANIMAL ACTIVITIES: HABIT AND INSTINCT.
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Dr. McCook confirms the observation that the clearings are kept clean, that the ant-rice alone is permitted to grow on them, and that the produce of this crop is carefully harvested; but he thinks that the ant-rice sows itself, and is not actually planted by the ants (see Sir John Lubbock's "Scientific Lectures," 2nd edit., p. 112).