Answer:
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two more letters?
Plow and hoe, reap and sow, What soon does every farmer grow?
Come up and let us go. Go down and here we stay.
Soft and fragile is my skin, I get my growth in mud. I’m dangerous as much as pretty, for if not careful, I draw blood.
Thousands lay up gold within this house, But no man made it. Spears past counting guard this house, But no man wards it.
I am the kind of an ant that's good at math. What am I?