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Show Makes Dinosaurs 'Work' for Him; Farm 'Products' Carlton S. Nash of South Hadley, Mass.-, is known in scientific circles throughout the world. Visitors from 39 states and many foreign countries coun-tries have made pilgrimages to his home to see the unusual products of his "farm" for he has the world's most bountiful crop of dinosaur tracks. Deeply imbedded in layers of shale on his two acres are the imprints im-prints of hundreds of dinosaurs of all sizes, from little fellows no larger larg-er than a chicken to mammoth 30 and 40 formers who roamed through the Connecticut valley in prehistoric times. There is even an imprint of the tail of one weary old dinosaur who sat down to rest, a prehistoric item authenticated by the late Professor Loomis of Amherst college. Nash values this particular track at $6,000. Formerly available only to museums mu-seums and educational institutions, the dinosaur tracks on Nash's "farm" are so numerous and varied va-ried that he now sells them to individuals indi-viduals throughout the world who use them for stepping stones, doorsteps, door-steps, novel book ends and fireplace decorations. He does not know how deep the ledge of shale imprints extends although al-though to date 16 layers of imprints have been uncovered, the shale containing con-taining each track varying in thickness from a half to five inches. "The tracks were made by dinosaurs dino-saurs in mud millions of years ago," Nash explains. "They were petrified petri-fied due to the clayish iron cement texture of the mud and compaction of the earth's weight. They are found in outcroppings of sandstone which seldom project above the surface sur-face of the earth. These layers of sandstone were originally mud flats which, later were covered with glacial gla-cial deposits from the North, slowly slow-ly hardened into stone and eventually, eventu-ally, from the earth's warping, volcanic vol-canic action and erosion, were exposed." ex-posed." Undoubtedly many people have wandered over what is now the "Nash Dinosaur Footprint Quarry" for years without paying much attention at-tention to the queer imprints in the shale. |