Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1916 — Black Snakes Beneficent. [ARTICLE]

Black Snakes Beneficent.

In Burlington county, New Jersey, the farmers who, In the erroneous belief that they are a pest, have been killing black snakes, are being urged to conserve them as enemies of the rattlers, which haye been unpleasantly numerous this year.' The damage done by the non-polsonous reptiles Is now recognised to be a slight account In comparison with the good they do. Not only will the black snake fight and best the rattler, but he earns more than his keel) by keeping down other pests. It has taken man a long time to Identify his friends of the lower orders, and even today many persecuted animals do not receive the credit that is due them. —New York Sun.