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A Farm Where Snails Are Raised

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Over in Switzerland the people are very fond of snails - alinost as fond as the American boy is of minee pie. It long ago beoame irnpossible fór even sharp eyed suail hunters to find all the snails they couldsell, and so someof the clever Swiss have started snail farms. As you may imagine, they are odd places, only a few rods square and divided into small parts, separated by fences abont two feet high, with naila along the top to prevent the snails f rom running away. Littlearborsof naoss are provided for the snails as shelter from the sun, for enails do not üke the sun. If there is not lime or chalk in the earth the farm, the farmer sprinkles it about. Snails eatcabbage, salad, uettlea and dandelion. They seem to be most bungry after a rain. The harvest time for snails is the latter part of August or the flrst of September. Then the snails are sorted ont. Those having round white houses are oonsidered fat and are thè most valuable. They are packed in boxes containins soft hay for shipment, and they sell for high prices.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News