The Republican., 1897-10-21
SNAKES BRING WEALTH.
MinnesOtan Conducts Successful
Reptile Farm.

bro river IN MINNESOTA are lHt HOlu6S VI
snakes by the million, and in the early
days of the settlement of the northwest
there were myriads of all sorts of dead
ly reptiles known to North America to
be found in this neighborhood To-day
there are more snakes caught for cir
Gus companies and other buyers there
than anywhere else in the country eX-
cept in some of the lower counties OF
Florida. All along the Mississippi and
tributary streams where snakes are to
be found they are caught for the
Rochester farm and sold to o. w. Estes,
the bright, keen-eyed young man who
runs the snake farm, and who for sew
eral years has been making success
of the venture.
Mr.. Estes also carries On a snake
hatchery, something after the manner
of hennery, but considerably more eX-
citing. The eggs produced by his stock
are gathered and laid in the sun on the
sand. where, in the course of time.
they hatch, and there are youngsters
fully as lively and venomous as their
parents. So far this year several hun
oil bo,-A
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'ne9o us 80, i,ea5 &C., faod for +bo
king snake and others that eat only
their own kind.
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y resota farm is in rattlesnakeS. as
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