Show NEW EV SNAIL TRADE A steadly minim for tho tile products of oft 1 lie fie jersey snail farmer labor libor it i N Y sun how is the snail trade a sun stin ie reporter porter asked a washington Washing tou market fish dealer 11 As might be expected the snail t trade rade is always ft a little slow but aba demand uch such as it is is etc steady my the dealer replied then ho lie opened a peculiarly shaped box with a number of shelves inside iu in which thero were thousands of enalls crawling about Tl these iese he lie paid md come from jersey they thes grow fat in their confinement too ge are the they y used in many resta restaurants ba be astonished to know the number there are half a dozen dozenE snail nail farmers in jersey who do nothing else but realand rear and fatten them and we wo can sell ell every every one that comes to the market their use was introduced here by foreigners but now they are eaten by most epicures epi cures and their virtue as a cure for consumption haa has been big highly lilly spoken of they have a delicious flavor when properly cooked are they cooked in downtown down town restaurants they are in several I 1 e apply y over ft a dozen restaurants myself they are chiefly in the vicinity of ot wall street tl the produce and cotton exchanges then th the dealer began W to discourse upon snails generally the kentish snail lie said so called because fi first liot noticed iced in thai that coun ty in Eng england dand has a it rosy roasy red lip and delicate blush and ia is per perhaps bals the finest and moat most delicate snails are regarded ar dedas as first class food by many e epicures epi cures the dartmoor mutton isz esthe mot excellent in flavor in england and few Dro probably bably arc are aware that it is to llie the snail we are indebted borits for its rich flavor bor aa las in ill his natural history of cor cornwall n gays says that the sweetest mutton is reckoned to bo be that of th the C smallest sheep which fedon feed on tho the com commons molls and eat cat many snails snails were a very common dish with the romans who fed them up to an nor size in ill their shell preserves ad they arci arek still eaten in man many parts of the continent of europe they are quite common in t the lie london lonion markets and aud may bo be bought at aej any lime time in covent garden market fr from on a sixpence to a shilling a quart the glassmen at newcastle indulge themselves in a snail benl ft it year and collect them thera from llie die fillds the su sunday u I 1 ay previous 1 I how long iong I 1 vill they keep keep why they have the most extraordinary powers of vitality some of them have been known to live many years shut up in boxes and drawers and even a affixed f to tablets as specimens dr johnston in his bis work on conchola con coli cholo chola gy speaks of some which had f formed part of a collection I 1 belonging to ft a mr simon of dublin which revived when placed in wr water 4 after having been dried for a it period of fifteen years seve several ral years ago I 1 read in iii SU limans journal that some sonic men employed in cutting tho the erie canal near rome found several hundred live moli mol luska forty two fa et deep in an alluvial deposit T they ey must have been centuries and probably would have been alive today to day but the tile workmen fried aud ate them the tile same tenacity of life is shown under circumstances even more abnormal max muller re 1 lates that some snails from which ho lie had hall cut their heads leads libed moro more than thau a year m in that state without food they have been known to reproduce feet eyes and even the whole head after amputation |