Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — The Beet Snake Killers. [ARTICLE]

The Beet Snake Killers.

John T. Miller of Portsmouth, Ohio, owns a farm near the city, which is furnished with good buildings, capital soil and a quarry of superior stone, but for a long time he has been unable to keep a tenant on the place, or to work the quarry, so it is said, on account of the number of venomous snakes which infest the place. Mr. Miller has done everything that he could think of to get rid of the snakes, but the more that were killed the more there seemed to be, until he was almost in despair. Last spring, on the advice of an old settler, he determined to try a new plan, so he built a high fence all around his land, bought forty hogs, turned them into the inclosure, and paid no further attention to them during the sumiher. Last fall he went to examine his hogs. He found them all in splendid health and condition, sleek and fat, but he could not find a single snake on the place., He thinks that the hogs have eaten them all.—[New Orleans Picayune. A piece of clean tissue paper is the best thing with which to clean spectacles.