MONEY IN SNAIL BREEDING

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 229, 24 November 1916, Page 6 (Supplement)

MONEY IN SNAIL BREEDING

BREEDING WORMS IS PROFIT ABL.t TOO. Not far from Pozieres. where* ot troops are now fighting, there is snail farm, where escargots —as edit snails are called—are bred for the Par market. The snails are sold by tt 'cag, about one hundred thousand < them making from eight to ten cag according to size and quality. Snails are immensely prolific, so thf a snail farm once started is self-suj porting as far as the replenishment ( the stock goes. Their food comes to a good dea though, for a growing snail is abot the most voracious thing on earth, po sessing no fewer than twenty thou and teeth, and an interior which i practically all stomacft. Fish farms exist in various parts < England. Also rabbit and guinea-pi fairms, or "jrabbitries" |and "cav ranches, "as the proprietors prefer : call them. Queerest of all are the worm farm of Nottinghamshire, where are bre and reared the famous "Nottinghai lobs," beloved of anglers. And th worm fancier pays fully as much a 1 tention to his strange stock nnd is i proud of it, as does the dog fancier.