Brigham City Bugler | 1891-09-26 | Page 2 | A Grass Eating Turtle

1 A Grass Kilting Turtle. 1 ' We have ou the Mojave deser a turtle that eats gross. It live?, in holes in the sand, t which it makes to escape the iuti-nsc heat 1 of the sun. You may take a stick and get , ; them out. They aiv tli- Xerobau. Aux-jd, j ; just, lately named for t'ne great, nutunilist, ! a very pretty turtle that gets ou guod feed- , J ing to be about teu inches lung aud to wei,;h 1 six to eight pounds. A woman down on tho 1 I desert last summer where I was had eiht or teu ot them in an open pen, which she was I I fattening to eat. They ate grass like horses. I When these turtles get fat, as they quickly 1 do on the grass, tin y lnat ull the frogs or roast turkeys you ever ate. An ordinary . one of these is worth 1 or 4. Naturalist in ! San Francisco Examiner. J