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Show Page THE JOURNAL 10 THIS REQUIRES a jr; W hibernate in snake dens, and wjien warm weather returns they leave the dens, migrate outward and give birth to their young. In some mysterious fashion, unknown to man, the new-bor- n spakes make their to the back very same den, way of when the signs approaching winter tell them its time to hibernate. What undefined force guides the young snakes back to the den of their parents, is one of those mys teries that can only be passed off with that very convenient, but in- KNOW-HO- W J conclusive and-haz- y term What's Up den. The particular den where these snakes were captured is in the hills east of Kaysville, Henefer and Picking up a rattlesnake is no more a job for the inexperiencGleason said. Hundreds of snakes, ed that it is for the squeamish. A slight miscalculation could have rattlers, blow snakes, and racers, four-foresults. Richthis very sorry Displaying specimen are all inhabit the den together, While ard Hennefer and Sumner Gleason. This is a large size for the this particular snake den happens to be rocky, there is no characterisGreat Basin species. tic terrain for snake dens, they said. The capture is effected through Round-u- p the use of an especially, designed tong, with which the snake is grasped and set into the receptacle. Also used is a snake trap. A den is wired off, with the only opening into a cage, much in the You have heard of branding cat- disposal. Their plans for the snakes leading ashion of a fly trap. tle. It has been, and is, a common- were entirely different. place enough occupation. Someone were going They stated that A few Snake Statistics remarks that he has been, or is to take the snakes they to their workWhile talking with Hennefer and about to brand some stock, nd you shop, brand them, and then turn Gleason we learned a few other reply izzat so, or something to that them loose again. effect, and let it go at that. This snake story was shaping up hings about this Utah rattler. reHowever, suppose someone entirely different from any other They are temperamental creatures, marked that he was going to spend snake story we had ever heard of and you can never tell for sure how the afternoon branding rattlenakes. imagined. We went outside with they, will react in the presence of Gleason and Hennefer to take a man. Sometimes they immediately A Sackful of Snakes. look-se- e into the sack. The hum- rear into striking position and When Sumner Gleason and Rich- ming noise that filled the immedi- make ferocious passes. Again they ard Hennefer, a couple ICaysville ate vicinity when they lifted the ie quietly and permit themselves boys, came into the office and an- sack from the car isnt recommend- ;o be captured with seeming indif-- : ierence. nounced that thfey had a .sack of ed as a nerve paliative. rattlesnakes outside in the car, we They opened the sack and we Generally speaking, Hennefer became all attention and began peered hesitantly inside. There and Gleason said, they will not go making with the queries. Theres were upwards of twenty rattlers out of their way to attack a man, nothing better calculated to put a writhing around there, buzzing and often must be sorely provoked person at attention, than a sack their rattles, flecking their tongue, jefore they reach a point where full of rattlesnakes. A single rat- and looking very unsocial and full hey will strike. In the cage, they tlesnake will do it, but a sdckful of venom. )ite each other, with no apparent will make you look like the original ill effect. A Migratory Mystery attentive man himself. The bite of this species of ratAfter a brief spell of fascination tler, while not After the first flurry of spon- from deadly, requires iminto the sack at this looking mediate medical taneous and little evaluated quertreatment, and ocof nastiness, we betook our- casions considerable mess discomforture. ies, we came to the core of the mat- selves to finding out why Hennefer It wont necessarily kill you, but ter by asking what they were going and Gleason engaged themselves it may make you wish you were to do with the sackful of rattlers. in5 this business of catching rat- dead. We didnt think this question too them and turning tlers, branding important because we figured that them According to Hennefer and Glealoose. we had long since figured the logiIt seems that they ..are working son, a person bitten may be in as cal procedure in such cases. This with Dr. Angus M. Woodbury, head great a danger from shock, occasioned by the horror of it, as from procedure, which seems a natural, of the Vertebrate Zoology Dept, at the venom consists of the following steps: (a) itself. The snake, they University of Utah, in a study Put a dozen sizqable sticks of dy- the said, leaps out and rather namite in on top of the snakes; (b) of the migratory habits of the than biting, with hisstabs, Great Basin, rattlerthe species fangs. The carry the sack out onto the salt in the sack. seriousness of the bite may be flats; (c) light the fuse, and (d) The Great Basin rattler, found gauged by the size of the snake and run like fury. mostly in Utah and Nevada, ac- the islength of time he holds on. If We were a trifle bewildered to cording' to Hennefer and he Gleason, more loath to disengage his fangs, discover that Messrs. Gleason and poses one of the yenom is being injected into myHennefer had apparently never steries of nature, unexplained the and the victim is in for wound, in its seasonal a even considered this obvious time. rough migrations. method of We were told that the venom itDuring the winter months they self is comprised of the same ingredient that comprises the yolk of A BOX FULL VENOM a chickens egg, namely protein-o- nly in such a highly .concentrated form that it has a toxic effect. ot f MINIATURE AIRPLANE CON TEST, this Sunday at Hill Field expected to draw hundreds of contestants. Sunday and Tuesday at 9 a.m. Public invited, no charge. Enter through west gate. FAMILY NIGHT, of Kaysville Civic Assn. July, at school square. Roller skating, exhibition of crafts, and special activities. Starts at 6:30 p.m. t FREE "MOVIE, showing a film on traffic safety, together with a feature and cartoon. Sponsored by Layton Jaycees and Hill AFB. July 7 at the Davis Drive-i- n theatre. Rattlers May Solve Mysteries Of Annual Migration & 0o ;C w & w v JM The bite of the Great Basin rattler has seldom, if ever, proven fatal. It calls for prompt treatment, and may put the victim to ted for a spell. There are 33 rattlers in this cage captured in Davis hills by Hennefer and Gleason. It is improbable that the snake deliberately buzzes his rattles with the intention of giving warning. Because when the snake vibrates his tail he doesnt know that he is making any sound. He cant hear it. HHe cant hear anything. He is deaf. Thats what Sumner Gleason and Richard Hennefer said, and thats good enough for us. Them boys know their snakes. t Then why do they rattle, you say. We dont know for sure, but were willing to wager that. Gleason and Hennefer would invoke that very handy term again that term without which many naturalists would be lost Its just plain instinct, mboy, jut plain instinct. is a vague and inconclusive term, but if its what causes a rattler to give the then we are for it. warning buzz, Mr. charge. Of Good Ole Instinct K- - Farmington ward recreation hall. Mr. and Mrs. George Dobson in , OF in the WEST CANADIAN MISSION Jimy Layton male quartet, July 2, at North chair winner !, !? Farmington ward, starting at 7 both band and or,? cbnic conducted Jfeft p.m. SQUARE DANCING beginners sessions each Wednesday evening at Advanced sessions instinct on Farmington. Monday evenings. In North Operation Snake Den They capture the snakes at their den in the spring, when they emerge from hibernation, brand them and then turn them loose where captured. Later, when a branded snake is recaptured, after migration, it gives some clue to the extent of the migration from the Ntmes CABBAGES rSrfef; of Ralph Page, Layton. Orlando J. Bow Mary Virginia McCiL hoZredr Mith and man, Kaysville, jllJ J o wed on Saturday, July far below those of the as it is possible to get der of gradation, Should fisherman & and over the chess board or a? ble, it may be assumed fisherman could defeat opponent and prune his the same time. Yet if skill is the prime fishing, a lot of fishen lately lore the out-skill- by the ed season it out, redeem themselves bj .. good catch. About the oil; for many others their status to as the ren more animal will be to go oat gage a fish in a game ofi canasta. In self defense, we are Catching fish is a matter of luck; therefore fishing contests come under such laws as pertain to gambling, and any reference thereto in the form of advertising shall be barred from the United States mails. The Postoffice Department. Catching fish is mostly a matter of skill, with only a minimum of luck involved, and any ruling which associ- ates this great American pastime with gambling is silly. A group of irate congress- - .o look upon fishing as l matter of luck, only fax meated with a few tensor r of skill. When we come a full catch we are wiliif it luck, just so we wont concede that we were i a fish when we come w oat-- handed. Most fishermen vate little have tricks which they slyly refer to to time. Some schedule of tk by the rise and falldiff eter. Others go by of the moon, claiming moon gives the fish e so that to feed by night tie temped by fishermem two next day. One man is K are paragraphs closely enough, we have claimed better able to detect the basic ingredients his bait into a glas of one of those cute little alterca- dips ni (an obvious excuse). tions that' occasionally emerge in was a i the nations capitol, and which There but to go fishing, serve to "break the monotony of the cided of If we examine the above i great big altercations. When the postoffice department tendered its ruling against fishing, as being an occupation subject to the whims of lady luck, a group of doughty congressmen sprang immediately to the fore, with cries of Skill, Skill, Skill and skill alone. Thus the controversy of fishing as a skill and fishing as luck was not-so-cu- te joined. A review of past fishing excursions might well tend one to the opinion that fishing is a blend of skill and lftck both in unknown quantities. Fish i themselves are unpredictable creatures, who sometimes get themselves caught by very unskillful fishermen. Wejknow this to be a fact, because we happen to be the original unskilled fishermen, whose frying pan waits upon the caprices of an unmanuevered fate, and yet there have been occasions strange quirk made aUrri made it. He and the night leave he took a flashhgbp out on the front kw crawlers. He before nightcrawlers one J,fJ saw the first .7 A tonished he sat their that 5 away. The fact worms of that sueff right on the surfa aniJ seemed to expression of he set out again,a FgjJ head down, hke scent. He crawl waving the then held it up. to s praisal as .mto dropped it in g satisfactio fulsome catch dropping The chore of an ac- bank. when we swung a mockingly under the eye complished rodsman, who stood with slack jaw and empty basket. To classify fishing as a skill, is to imply that it is a game wherein ;he fisherman matches his cunning md resourcefulness against that of he fish. This would seem to place he fish on the short end of the betting odds. The scientific evaluation of a ishs brain-powcredits the fish with very little power to reason a situation out. In matters of ratiocination, of deducing one fact er J often leaped time worm. Every , clJ , t2 still ight a. m. Now ttenwbe - 1S roles license he bup light batteries cans. Instead i they biting they craw WbjttfS 5 caught any has has .th voaca3 nightcrawlers see expect to above ,ounted 'rom aonther, the natural endowments of the fish are nearly as day now. Mi |