HOW THEY ARE UTILIZED IN BRAZIL, Brazilian nut-growers will soon be using hundreds of monkeys as lab ourers on their farms. The experience was tried by a pro minent planter two years ago, and now he has a well-trained band of 50 of the mischievous little animals who do more work in the gathering of nuts, and do it more thoroughly than men. This planter recently told of his success, incidently claiming for the monkey a much higher order of in telligence than that of any other an imal. " At one time," he said " I used to employ a large number of na tives to climb the trees and pick the nuts ; but one day I noticed a cou ple of monkeys swinging themselves from tree to tree, picking nuts and throwing them on the ground. The idea struck me that if I could man age to train some of these animals to pick nuts and throw them into baskets placed under the trees, 1 should save myself something con siderable in wages every year.
" I followed out this idea and in a few months I possessed a small staff of monkeys, who got through llieir work more than twice as quickly as my human pickers and with much less waste of time. All that was necessary was to have a man to look after the animals while they worked and finding them extraordinarily fond of music, these men sing and play while they arc watching the progress of the work. The monkeys I find will work much better if they are humoured in this respect. " As I say I have now four dozen of these queer workmen on my es« tate.
