Show snails as an article of diet upwards of pounds of snails are eaten every lay day by the residents of the gay french capital the snail market being ame th c busiest industrial martin mart in paris one in the province of dijon yields its proprietor franco per year at this place they are carefully reared in snail gardens and fed on an aromatic herb which gives gires them a fine flavor many swiss cantons also have large snail gardens and depend chiefly on tho the people of paris for a market snails are also used SS as an article of food in austria spain and italy as well as in egypt and tho the other countries on the southern shore claim that they aro are very nutritive containing not less than 17 per cent of nitrogenous matter |