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Show HOW SNAKES HELP FARMER Man Who Knows Points Out How Valuable to the Tiller of the Soil Are. Their Services. Snakes are a valuable Tisset and there should be a campaign against killing them, writes Gayne T. K. Norton, Nor-ton, In the American Forestry Magazine. Maga-zine. The article goes on to show what the snake does for food conservation conser-vation by ways of killing rodents and Insects, the greatest enemies to grain that man knows. The public has be-' come acquainted with snakes as never before, writes Mr. Norton, because of the thousands who have been engaged In the campaign for war gardens that has treen conducted by the national emergency food garden commission. "With this summer the millions of war gardens have givrn the snake popular pop-ular interest. Tremendously increased tillage has brought people and snakes together. "Unless mucn education work is done the number of snakes that will be killed next year by the well-meaning but misinformed gardeners will be very, large. Our snakes are a national asset worth many millions of dollars and should be conserved. The . relation rela-tion they, bear to successful crops Is Important more Important than even the average farmer realizes." |