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sells for $1.25 for a four and one-half ounce can; the uncooked meat bringing
$2.50 a pound. The meat is also smoked in the same fashion ham is smoked
and marketed as “Snake Snaks” in small bags. In view of the fact that the
meat has a very delicate flavor, it is especially delicious served as canapes.
Other parts of the rattler such as the head, the rattles, the fangs are made up
into ornaments and a rubbing oil is made from the fatty tissues. The skin, of
course, is made into hat bands, belts, pocketbooks, book covers, etc.

You may not be keen about the idea of starting a snake cannery, even though
you live in a snake infested area. However, the way Mr. End made his $1,000
may suggest to you the many opportunities for making money that exist right
in your own back yard, so to speak, if only you look for them.

What You Can Make from Clam Shells

M

ARY COOPER , who lived with her two small children in a cheap rooming
house, had lost her job. However, being an ingenious person, she had soon
established herself in a nice little business of her own making novelties from
clam and oyster shells. She secured the shells without cost from a near-by sea
food shop and made them up into novelties. She took them down to the
beauty parlor where she had been working and the owner of the shop gave
her display space in a window for a commission on all that were sold. Such
novelties are inexpensive to make. The materials used consist of common
pipe cleaners, clam, oyster shells, and other shells. No particular skill is
required. Here is how to do it:

Drill a hole in the small end of an oyster shell. Insert one end of a pipe
cleaner through this hole and fasten it securely by twisting the wire over and
around the edge of the shell, letting most of the pipe cleaner extend upward.
Now repeat this operation with a second oyster shell of the same size. Place
the two shells alongside each other. Halfway up the length of the pipe
cleaners, bend and twist them together for the rest of their length. Next select
two small oyster shells. Match and fit them together about the twisted single
portion of the pipe cleaners. That portion of the pipe cleaners which protrudes