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Show Breeding Snakes for Their Skins. Snakes, according to the prevailing popular notion, should bo killed at sight as utterly useless and positively dangerous creatures, but In Australia they are now being systematically reared for tho Bake of their skins, which have considerable commercial value In London, Paris and New York. Snako skin Is the fashlonablo material for shippers, belts, bags, (Purses, card cases, Jewel boxes, dressing-table accessories, etc. Ilabblt trappers supplement their means, considerably con-siderably by catching young snakes nnd extracting the poisonous fangs, The blacks are also export snake catchers. To them tho anako ls nn agreeable article of diet. |