Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1917 — Start a Snail Farm. [ARTICLE]

Start a Snail Farm.

All snails are edible and nutritious. Even the common garden snail, though insipid, is as nourishing as calf’s foot jelly. There is a large white-shelled snail called Helix pomatla that is commonly eaten by connoisseurs in the South of England, while all over France, Italy and Spain several species are used for food. In France there are many small snail farms which yield a good profit to their owners. In the French and Italian quarters of New York snail* may be bought, either alive or cooked, and at most of the French restaurants they are served “escargots farcisl’ frying the most usual form of the dish. Snails are easy to raise in large quantities. They need lime for making their shells, but they do not have to be fed, as they can find their own food, which is the leaves of many plants. They eat nothing else.