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Things to Know and Do 333 come equipped with hypodermic fringe, tubes of anti-venomous serum and strychnine tablets. Harmless Snakes Far the greatest number of our snakes are harmless, beautiful, and beneficent. They are friendly to the farmer, because, although some destroy a few birds, chickens, ducklings, and game, the largest part of their food is mice and insects. The Blacksnake, the Milk Snake, and one or two others, will bite in self-defence, but they have no poism fangs, and the bite is much like the prick d a bramble. Books Recommended Thf. Reptile Book, Raymond L. Ditmars. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907 ; 465 pages, many ills. Price, $3.50. , . c • /-. Poisonous Snakes of North America, Leonhatd Stejneger. uov- emment Printing Office. j The Crocodiuans, Lizards, and Snakes of North America, Edward Drinker C<H)e. U. S. National Museum, June, 1898. ..... ^ RErmu <» THE WoRU> (with mulaUe histories of theu habits) about 300 ilhutratbw. Ibe Stuipt Ik Walton Co. Prioe,f5M.