The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-19

places of lonely forests, and the cop perhead. All other snakes, whether they are called adders, vipers, racers or moccasins, are harmless. You can live a long life and never meet bad snake.
 Snakes never attack. They are only too anxious to get away. They are never slirny like eels. They cannot charm birds anything else. No snake has a 'tstinger'' in the end of it's tail, nor is it's forked tongue a sting. There are no such things as hoopsnakes. A snakes tail won t Wigg1e until sunset after it's owner is killed Cows are never millxed by rlilk-enakes nor will any snake drink milk if 1t can get water. Black ] snakes can't kill rattlesnake, nor wind around boys neck, and choke him. A snake never commits suicide by biting itself, although the puff adder pretends to do so. No poison ous snake can hurt itself, or any oth- CT snake of it's kind. or the king snake. All other snakes die if bit ten by a ratt1esnake or copperhead. Whiskey will not cure snake bite, and should never be taken in large quantities.
 Both the rattIesnake and the, cop perhead are tpit-vipers'' and have a deep pit or hole between che eye and 1 the nostriI. The pupil of the eye of venomous snake is oval, and that of harmless snake round. The rattlesnake, of course, can be told by l it's rattle. The copperhead has dark and light brown markings shaped like dumbbeIIs and a light, sometimes col ored head. If you are bitten by eith- CT, at once tie string or handker- chief as tightly as possible between the bite and the heart. This string should not be left on for over ten of the fang marks and through them. and suck out all the blood possible. The cut should then be kept covered with a wet antiseptic dressing. Of all the snakes the most common is the garter or striped snake. It is 1 the earliest snake out in the spring and the last to go into winter quar- ters. This snake can be told by it's three light stripes, one the back and two on the sides. It lives entirely ] is of no special value to the farm CT.
 The black snake has a reputation as dark as it's skin, and is supposed | to chase boys, charm birds and to be | an all-around bad snake. The fact is | ly possible. It is the sprinter of snake kind and can easily outrun a man. I once raced big one down hill for 30 yards, and was a bad sec ond at the finish, which was a stone wall, where the snake lived. There
 
 snake, instead of running will turn and fight
 The prettiest of all snakes is the lit tie green grass snake, of which there are two kinds, one having smooth and the other ringed scales. This tiny snake lives entirely on insects and l looks like bit of jewelry.
 A companion to the green snake in gentleness and size is the DeKay snake with a light streak along the back, bordered on either side by a row of black dots. This slender little snake rarely exceeds a foot in length. It is fond of hiding under stones and cans in rubbish heaps, and like the striped snake can be found within the limits of our cities.
 Another s1andered snake is the milk | snake or checkered adder. The ground color of this snake is gray, and it is checkered with a series of dark brown or dark red blotches, edged with black. Because it is found near milk houses and stables, where it feeds on mice and rats, it is supposed to steal milk and to milk cows. An old negro once told me about a, COW his father 1 owned which used to go every day to a wood-lot and moo. At once a