Show USE SNAKES TO KILL SNAKES south america has discovered an excellent cope with the universal pest in south america where the snake pest is a very serious proposition they are now using snakes to catch snakes even in the most civilized parts ot of brazil over 1000 persons are killed annually by snake bite the mongoose which proved so effective in jamaica and esse elsewhere eise where is of little use here necessity Is the mother ot of invention and nature and science together have at last discovered something which it is hoped may eventually exterminate the dreadful pest the discovery is nothing else than a snake which is harmless harn iless to man and which kills and eats the poisonous species the as it is called is a a thick muscular snake about four feet ion long it is possessed of an insatiable appetite for poisonous vipers and it can tell of the approach of one in the tha same way that a pointer will 11 scent game when tackling its prey which Is frequently considerably bigger than itself the good snake assumes a lethargic air as it if it were glutted with food slid and could not fight seeing this the bad snake immediately attacks this is just what the other wants for being rendered by nature completely immune from the poison it seizes its enemy before it has haa had time to recover from the charge and gives a fatal bite at the base of the brain |