Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-08-15
Many Novel Farms That Are Worked. ProfitabIv

Near Los Angeles. Cal. a French
cessful sinai farm. and so far bis y
the only snail raising farm .- rne
United States. About two years age
Nernot imported a number of snails
from France, and so rapidly did they
increase. during the breeding season
that he found 1t necessary to employ
additional help on his farm. He has
succeeded in producing the Shiny. re-
pulSive looking creatures at n rate en-
tirely gratifying to himself and he be-
lieves he will experience no difficulty
IN hiding q market for all that h
can raise. In the event of the de-
mand not being sufficiently large in
this country he says that he IAN ship
them to Paris. at which place more
than nine tons of snails are consumed
annually as an article of food. Vernot
says the proper management OF a snail
farm doe not require very laborious
work, and ell that is needed is an in
closure In "A moist place. so protected
that the crawling gasteropods cannot
crawl away.
A Woman's Frog Farm.
Although the national lawmakers
Kicked vigorously on an appropriation
FOR continuing the governmental ex-
periments in frog farming. the work
Will go alor.g just the same. States
and individuals have demonstrated that
there is big money in raising for mar
ket the low browed songster Of the
marsh, and eve without the "scien-
tific' assistance which the government
might be able to give in frog framing,
there is not likely to be a scarcity of
frog legs. Pennsylvania maintains a
large frog farm, perhaps the most ex-
tensive of any state. but the largest in
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Miss Edith Siege, at Siege, Cal, This
farm covers nearly ten acres, and last
year the young lady marketed more
than $500 dozen frogs legs, from
which she netted something more thar
$4,000 fairly good business for "a
freak farm.
Terrapin and Crab Farms.
In Maryland. on the Chesapeake, near
Crisfield, Mr.. Lavalette owns a ter
rnpin farm which covers several acres
and on which SIC has more than 500, 600
worth of diamond backs, ranging in
size from that of a 10-cent piece to the
buster" terrapin. which are worth us
much as $3.50 a dozen. Nothing has
been offered to epicures which can take
the place of terrapin and champagne,
and Mr.. Lavalette has never eXperi-
enced trouble in selling the out
put of his farm. Terrapin are getting
scarccr every year, until now large
ones are worth their weight In silver.
Less h seventy-tive years ago Mary
land had to enact a law prohibiting
slave owners from feeding terrapin
meat oftener than twice a week, as the
food was too rich and produced disease
AT that time %terrapin sold for as low
as 90 cents for a wagonload. Washing
ton and Lafayette entered a protest at
being fed terrapin at Yorktown. There
are other terrapin farms on the Chests
peake' but Mr.. L~avalette's is the largest
in the United States.
In the same section, too. there are
a umb OF crab farms. and the crab
armer can match dollars with any
class of small farmers in the country.
The crab season is a short one, and it
Is easy money for hundreds of per-
sons on the eastern shore. TIL first
shipment of any Importance from he
Chesapeake crab farm was in 1887.
when the output was valued at $S4, 900,