| Show MANS FRIEND THE SNAKE Professor J or In n Oklahoma Normal School Pleads till for a II Humble Ally I of lit Fanner Cow fow farmers In III Oklahoma ma 1111 who do Iu not try to kill very they thC see 8 Prof V M AVInton head of oC tho th detriment ot biology In tho Sinto Normal school nt It Edmond this practise o and lila student that many found In tho southwest aro alo not lint only but hul of oC Incalculable In to 10 tho Iho farmer Ilo also them not nol lo 10 bellevo bollo all tho orles they thoy hoar Take Taka fur tur example tho hoop snake said III Prof Tho hoop hOOI In to 10 Its tall In III Its mouth and then roll along In pursuit of or Its ItH prey Irl No one on over oer lIen a 1 that would place HH II tall In Its It mouth and roll I will KI UI for tor a 1 genuine live IIvo hoop that can b I persuaded to put Iut Its 1111 tall lall In III Its It II mouth roll Another nother of oC tho family Is the story nf r the Iho power especially have of oC fas their victims This Thin has hall u IL ground In tho Iho fact that fear will tem temporarily tho motor machinery For that matter so 0 will any strong Illation ev t n 11 Joy Jo often men havo bron k speechless by good news n The venom of oC tho principal po pol of this tho rat mt moccasin nets on the circulatory tm depres depressing sing the action of oC tho Iho henrt Whisky liao hao the mc effect Prof I accordingly says that to tn ml whisky for tor nak ta la Just about as ns reasonable r ns n trying to euro uro euron n C man of ot by h striking him himon on 11 the th head with a II hammer I take tako off nr my III hat he III declares to 10 whoso constitution I tn II strong It II cnn withstand a II dose 1080 of oC alcohol and a 1 dose Ilose of ot venom In appealing II for Cor tho protection of ot certain kinds of oI snakes Prof IroC an The trim docs not nol fn with his hI little eyes hn suck eggs he 10 kill little pigs Illa he do any of ot Iho terrible things ho Is I reported portell as n doing nn On tho hn Vio bo Is I a II great friend of of tho fanner thousands hou of oC rodents every ery season Inon mice cr and moles maIN nil him Im Tho bull a Prof Inton I I a i largo larlo blotched red rd brown and suffers the greatest amount of at Injustice c that any living has to boar bellr Ilo Is h a It can hiss loud 1 enough nough to 10 be heard At lit a distance of oC fifteen steps te or more Ilo lIo will IH often show fight In gun 1111 rill has hils a 1 very cry when II II approached by man r would fay floy un unqualifiedly qualifiedly ho In 18 the tho mot most wild of tho farms especially th plains farms ns liB he will enl cat every everything thing thIn other othor cat also cats large numbers of ot rabbits Ill Tim Ih water snakes of at thin Ihl region are nf oC many kinds colors are bad tempered sharp teeth will bite though they the arc not In tho Yet they aro killed In tho belief Hint they aro the dreaded inoc nOC Thy They nr scavengers eating 11 nah fish Prof says 0 they should be protected by law lawA lawA A belief In tn moot pom om Is upset by h Prof wh Ihn n he nys nR Now wo come to 10 that destroyer of nC loO II camps of oC Sun Hun that thal of ot thA blackberry picker tho th spreading or 1 the snake mke ns tI he ought moro properly proper to bo called Ho puffs and and bulges out hla neck even simulates a clumsy pretends to strike luit ho refuse to bite and andIs Is a rank coward for If Is attacked flops over Into the usual IKI of a dead Turn him right up and over he flops again he that a t lt on his The adder or nalo l not In tho hnis iu no poison sacks und only tiny teeth Ho Is not so n nth th hut decidedly mor roM than harm harmIn In killing off d claren we are stand standing ing In our own light ni much rut ho refused to take medicine ho rau poisonous In tho states which have l en long vt the have been almost killed out and as a result nf all kind kindor or lh farmers chief worn second only lo weather com and trap eto bring used tn tin the work to have done for bv our citizen li New Tork Bun |
