Snake farms are stocked either by roving about, catching snakes and putting them into captivity, or by breeding from parent stock, or by a combination of both methods. A woman in Kansas and her ai Jaw have built up one of the best serpent ranches in the world, where many 8 2,000 head of stock, poisonous and non-poisonous, have been kept at a time, Poisonous. snakes, they found, seldom attack each other, whether of the same species or vot, But, in general. can nihalism is so apt to occur that the Keonest observation has to be devoted to the stock, in order to ascertain Who Ents Whom., Even then, a highly respectable family of snakes which has always confined its meals to orthodox food, apt suddenly to take to swallow: ing the smaller specimens in the cag for a change. However, the very necessity for constant vigilance and quick readjustment of cages, pens, company and diet, make the woman snake-farmer's work very interest= ting. And it has the great advantage, for the fastidious woman, of being absolutely clean. Every snake is a5, clean as a prize Persian cat, and needs no-one's attention to keep it
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