Show JONES SNAKE KILLING PIGS the faz fazmer farmer mer trained ills hig R to exterminate serpents talk about snakes sn alces said a resident of boston the other day there are more of em to the square acre in florida than in any other part of this glorious country but as numerous as they are they are not half as abundant as s they were a few years ago before any organized effort was made to annihilate the whole serpentine breed it seems tb that at a bright idea involving the wholesale extinction of snakes entered the mind of one william jones who up to that time had bad been a poor farmer struggling to support a big family no now he is one of the solid men of the county and he made all his money by the successful execution of that idea ile he knew that tiie the ordinary razorback hog of florida was a great natural enemy of snakes and he set to work to systematically train a whole drove of hogs to hunt down and destroy the reptiles in a little while he had his swine as thoroughly trained in their part as setter dogs are drilled to point quail he first cleared hi his as own farm of a vast quantity of big ones and then he began to hire out his hogs to his neighbors who were snake af flirted the fame of those razorback razor backs spread all over the land and people whose places were infested with rattlesnakes tle snakes and men who were clearing up new land sent for jones hogs this is no romance for I 1 talked with jones himself and he told me all about it and exhibited his book of en engagements age which also contained a r record ecord of all the snakes slain for the last twe twelve ve mont months i I 1 have ave every reas reason n to believe he was stating the facts fact 3 for he gave me a warm invitation to visit his place and promises to give an exhibition hibi tion that would demonstrate the sl skill ill of hit hie snake killers hillers |