A LITTLE LAND 19 g 



AND A LIVING 



Strong stakes are driven outside the boards to 

 prevent the wind blowing them over. A plot 

 of ground 100 x 200 feet will serve for about 

 ten thousand snails. The soil is plowed deeply 

 in the Spring; the snails are then put in and 

 covered with several inches of moss or straw, 

 which is kept damp. As they eat only at night, 

 their food, lettuce, cabbage, vine leaves, or 

 grass, must be supplied daily about sunset. To 

 improve the flavor of snails, mint, parsley, and 

 other aromatic herbs are planted in their enclo- 

 sure. The snail lays from fifty to sixty eggs in 

 a year. Her nest is a smooth hole in the ground, 

 where the eggs hatch in less than 20 days. The 

 game is marketable when six or eight weeks old. 

 They are ready for picking in October after 

 they have sealed themselves up in their shells; 

 they are then put on trays and kept in store- 

 house for several months, when they are brushed 

 and cooked in salted water. They are shipped 

 to market at once in wooden boxes holding from 

 50 to 200 each, and bring high prices as an epi- 

 curean delicacy. 



Frog culture is successful only when the pond 

 is large enough to be partitioned, thus separating 



