. The Game breeder . president, lo-cated in North Carolina, gives the gamewarden a 25 cent bounty for every egg-devouring snake he kills, also for everyhawk known as an enemy to birds. Inbounties he has collected from year toyear about $60 per annum. We formerlyincluded owls but we omitted them asthey are great destroyers of field mice,the farmers asking for the owls protec-tion even if they did get some quail. The tail of every snake killed is tackedon the side of a barn for my annual in-spection and count. I find there from100 to 150 each year, the list beingmostly black and whip snakes and
. The Game breeder . president, lo-cated in North Carolina, gives the gamewarden a 25 cent bounty for every egg-devouring snake he kills, also for everyhawk known as an enemy to birds. Inbounties he has collected from year toyear about $60 per annum. We formerlyincluded owls but we omitted them asthey are great destroyers of field mice,the farmers asking for the owls protec-tion even if they did get some quail. The tail of every snake killed is tackedon the side of a barn for my annual in-spection and count. I find there from100 to 150 each year, the list beingmostly black and whip snakes and a fewland moccasins. Our game warden isa strictly honest man. He has seen largeblack snakes rob hens roosts and tellsme that in Florida the racer, or largeblack snake, after swallowing whole, sev-eral eggs, finds a narrow space to crawlthrough and in so doing constricts andbreaks up the eggs in his stomach. Iam sure any snake from 2^2 feet up-wards will eat any egg in size up to andincluding a grouse egg. J. D. Young Mallards. More About Snakes. Referring to snakes—years ago ablack snake was opened on the B. Association grounds and six part-ridge (grouse) eggs were taken fromhis stomach. I have an original set ofAudubons works. One plate shows acombat between a black snake and theparent brown thrasher, one of which hehas killed. He was trying to take theeggs from their nest and Audubon wit-witnessed the scene. Last spring I shot a sparrow that wasannoying my martins and laid it on thewall below their house for them to look 118 THE GAME BREEDER Food for Wild Ducks. am always indignant when I hear of more Mr. Jasper B. White soon will make or less slaughter of this kind. What will an extended trip to visit old customers our fields and woods look like if grace- who have planted his sago pond weed and fully soaring hawks are forever elimi- other foods and to see many new ones nated from the view and if the land and who wish his advice about planting, its crops are t
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