Show K zebe P 00 M ca n y B Us y caho a texas man sends the rattlers poison all ad over world for antitoxin brownsville Browns ville tex three tareo glass jars hermetically sealed scaled each filled wr with yellowish crystals repose on a n shell shelf of W A snake Sn ako king at snake ville on tho the outskirts of brownsville Browns ville tho the crystals in each jar represent the collection of poison from approximately rattlesnakes and according to mr king hing thero thena is enough poison in an tho the jars to kill se several veral regiments if it were properly applied king hing annually buys and sells thousands of 0 rattlesnakes and at snake valle there are arc at all times hundreds of rattlers of ah all sizes and descriptions for several years lie he has been bech collecting poison from reptiles crystil crystallizing izing it in a small kiln and sending tho the crystals to scientists in all parts of the world who are endeavoring to aln mid d a remedy for snake bite few people tn in brownsville Browns ville the volume of business which flows through 1 evil I 1 e they dally daily see scores of boxes labeled dangerous reptiles handle with care leave and enter the express office but tt it Is an accustomed grown sight s dozens oi of af mexican snake catchers are required to keep the stream of reptiles moving into kings pens 1 I 1 have never charged a cent for the poison crystals nor do I 1 ever expect to charge anyone for the antitoxin king states 1 I have saved the polson poison and crystallized it for the benefit of science and I 1 have the antitoxin for the benefit of anyone bitten byn by a rattlesnake tle snake scientists throughout the world have asked me for crystals and I 1 have bave never failed to respond provided I 1 was waa assured they were to be used for legitimate scientific purposes only it Is a curious fact king points out that the poison used to produced the antitoxin works well only when it comes from the family of snakes from which the bite has come in the case of a rattlesnake bite king asserts tho the serum used Is made from the blood of a horse inoculated with rAttles rattlesnake nako poison injected into the blood as near and as soon offer affer the bite QS as possible sends crystals to brazil when the snake farm at sao paulo brazil was established by the brazilian government and placed in charge of advanced scientists king was asked by them for some crystals and antitoxin king supplied several quarts of the crystals representing the collections from about rattlesnakes king has branched out his business to include birds and animals of dt diversified versi variety parrots iguanas anteaters horned toads wildcats mexican mexica ca n lions leopards and scorer of other specie of animal life of mexico and the southwest are found on his bis farm fann |