Show professional PROF SNAKE FIGHTERS t last year th the e number of men women and children who met a terrible torri blo death in india from the bito af poisonous snakes amounted to be this there were wore about killed by wild animals chiefly to say nothing of about cattle I 1 every conceivable measure has boon taken tal en to mitigate miti gato this appalling annual destruction destruct Lon but with little avail so writes W G fitzgerald in the technical world magazine for may the venomous snakes of india most destruct destructive Ivo to life may be placed in ho the following order first of all comes come the deadly cobra responsible for nearly nine tenths of tho the fatalities and then the kaalt kupper Ru russells sells viper the hama hamadryad dryas anil raj samp tho water crater snakes hill kill a good many aa as we shall see but they are comparatively rare A regular organized war fare la Is waged upon indias andias myriads of reptiles lloa and in each district a regular head tax Is paid upon each cobra and other snake killed last year the number of snakes lie le fi troyed was tor for which rewards amounting to nearly ru paid the grea greatest de do to life appears mohave been in bengal where people hilled killed and nearly 1000 cattle in this province alone polso noua noun snakes were destroyed the charged with this curious work were scattered over tatt whole vast area from the himalaya himalayas to southern INI madras adras including bombay provinces the north west provinces annj an budh tho the punjab central contral provinces burma assam glydar abad and others the writer to iowa lows this with an interesting article aitrele of some length upon tho methods pursued by the snake i with mint sauce mary U rry had bad it little lamb youve hoard heard this fact before but have you heard she passed eseed her plate and had a little more kt r |