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Show Value of Snakes. Most people have a decided shrinking shrink-ing from snakes, which Is not to bo wondered at in tropical countries, where their bite Is venodous and often fatal. But the grass snake ought not to be confounded with the rattlers, cobras or pythons. It It- as harmless to humanity as a frog nr'J a good deal more useful. No greirler enemy to bugs is In existence. 'Kid slus are among the most hurtful of garden and field pests. They keep iov.n the numbers num-bers also of such other pesrs as mice, shrews and other sum rodents. But as slug destroyers tf.ey lesi-rve to be cherished rather than i.iassacred at sljjht, wlikh la tAsi aua.- fate. |