Show pythons sold at so much a yard V k s takes six husky men to uncoil and measure bi big ap spunky snake new york la Is one market in now new york which has a wider range ann e between tw cn longs long and shorts than wall street itself it Is the python market you iou can got get pythons at tile the right time of year anywhere from seven feet to twenty alve in length usually they are sold ns as ribbon Is sold the more you want the more you have to pay jillions pillions Pil lions form an industry and new york Is the center of it for america every year men go from here to africa india sumatra find and south america ameria and early in the spring new york lias hils a python population of or so they are sold mostly to traveling shows which go on the road in the spring possibly because the he show people at always expect bad business in a presidential year or perlin perhaps ps because of the backward weather the early part of f 1924 brought a slump in general 0 however the python trade Is steady pythons and boas are two of the worlds commodities which have not dot been greatly affected in price by the war quotations and demand are now about what they were ten years ago or twenty A seven foot python can be had for 20 A length of 25 feet found in the regal pythons from sumatra runs the price up to GOO or boas como come smaller 10 16 feet Is the maximum at an age of eight to ten years according to snake dealers and this Is also true of rock pythons in price the boas tart start where here the pythons do and the biggest of fetches about cheap pet to feed the upkeep though Is astonish ast astonishingly bingly small the big snakes are as econome economical en I 1 a pet as one could have one of them can sometimes get along on an expenditure not much larger than the seed bill of a husky canary and while they usually live 13 years or so occasionally sio nally they last 40 or CO 50 sometimes they do not ent eat for two tire or three years says louis rube who imports a year out of the that are brought into the country then you have to use forcible feeding two quarts of milk with halt half a dozen eggs in it administered through a hose every two or three months will keep them alive it if the python Is cheerful it fee feeds as once a month on live animals that Is the meal schedule in captivity in the wild it feeds when it can more or less wild porcupine Is it a and plain pig hlll often tempt a python though rabbits and guinea pigs are the most frequent dish the porcupines quills have no terrors for the reptile it knows which end to swallow first so the quills will lie ho flat when a bon or python la Is in captivity however it may become disgusted with life and look as if it were too tired ored to eat A few months of this and a 25 foot snake that normally weighs pounds will drop 40 pounds then Is the time tor for the eggs and the rubber hose if a snake eaten for several months it looks lethargic one that haa baa fed Is not onsy to handle it takes six men to measure a big python according to mr rube to take it out of the box and use the tape and put it back tile the snake often shows ra tight fight and its wily way of fighting Is to coll coil I 1 it it gets a grip on something then cornea comes a tug of war just lugging it out and straightening it and dropping it back in the box Is a half hours work for six strong men and it leaves them exhausted sometimes one of the big fellows gets loose that happened not so BO lo 10 long g sto ago small boys looking up at a store window saw 23 25 feet of snake hanging out and looking around they called a policeman and the policeman after some hours succeeded in calling the store stora attendants they all got together at the stern and heaved lio ho until the snake was boxed again it was an arm wrenching jub the men who do the hunting in the wilds take chances for they go out often hundreds of miles in the forests with only two or three attendants often they are among natives who will not touch a snake because of tabu there are narrow escapes but the tight hoses boxes of pythons keep arriving in new york tork in time for the circus and show seasons sen sons and not a snake of ole he lot Is under seven feet india sends two where here africa sends one now and then it Is a ease case of digs pigs Is ilas the trip from india takes 45 days A snake that started alone may be fou found no at tile the end of it colled coiled aroun around d two dozen eggs and in another two weeks the young are out america has a considerable domestic snake business with flourishing plants in texas this deals with rattlesnakes end and such which have their special nt attractions tr but it Is the big snake that draws the crowd when the barker begins ills his patter before the tent |