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Show JONES' SNAKE-KILLIHQ PIOS. Tlis Farmer Trilnnl II I It.tiurkucki to lUtriu'osto HdTirut4, "Talk about snakes," said a rosklaiit of llostoii tlio other day, "there nr moro of 'cm to the i.qunra aero in Tlor-ida Tlor-ida than In any other part of this glorious glori-ous country. Hut as numerous ns tboy nro they uro not half us uhiNidiiut na tliey wero a few years ago, before any organized effort was mado to annihilate annihi-late the wholo serpentine breed. "ItKocmsthatahrightldou Involving the wholesalo extinction of snakes entered en-tered tho mind of ono William Jones, who up to thnt tlmo had boon n poor farmer struggling tosupport n big family. fam-ily. Now ho Is ono of the solid men nf the county, nnd bo mado all his money by the succcsstut execution of that Idea. Ho know that tho ordinary razorback hog of Florida was n great natural enemy of snakes, nnd ho set to work to systematically train rv whole drovo of hogs to hunt down nnd do-stroy do-stroy the reptiles. In a llttlo while ho had bis swine as thoroughly tralnod in thilr part as setter dogs aro drilled to point quail. Ho first cleared his own farm of a vast quantity of big onos, nnd thou ho began to hire out his hogs to his neighbors who wero snake-afflicted. Tho famo of those razorbnoka spread all over tho laud and people whoso places wero Infested with rattlesnakes rat-tlesnakes and men who wero clonrlug up new land scut for Jones' hogs. '"'his Is no romance, for I talked with Jones lilmsoU nnd he told mo all about It, and cxhlbitod his book of engagements, engage-ments, which also contained a record of all tho snukes slain for the last twelvo months. I have ovcry reason to believe he wnt stating tho facts, for ho gave mo a warm Invitation to visit his place nnd promise to glvo nn exhibition ex-hibition that would demonstrate the skill of hit snako-klllcrs." |