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needed in his establishment), but also to obtain as large and strong fish 

 as possible, not much is gained for the growing lish by small spawning 

 ponds; for, unless one desires to obtain nothing but miserably small 

 fish, as was the ease in the two ponds referred to above, the young 

 fry have to be taken out of the small ponds two to three weeks alter 

 they have been hatched and transferred to larger ponds, in which case 

 one can count on only 1,500 fish per hectare. For in spite of the largest 

 possible number of small fish iu spring, there would be few, if any, 

 young fish in autumn; for the smaller the fish the tenderer they are, 

 especially with regard to cold winter weather. 



It will therefore always remain impossible to obtain annually, in very 

 small ponds, young carp which are strong and healthy in any very con- 

 siderable numbers. 



71.-PRICE8 OF CARP, TENCH, AN» GOLDORFE IfV GERMAN V. 



By F. ZE.\K. 



The proprietor of the Seewiese Fishery, Mr. F. Zenk, of Wurzburg, 

 Germany, has forwarded his price-list to the United States Fish Com- 

 mission, several items of which, when translated into American money, 

 are as follows : 



Mirror carp per hundred $4 84 



Leather carp per hundred 7 20 



Crucian carp per hundred 2 42 



Golden carp per hundred 9 08 



Tench per hundred . 2 90 



Golden tench per hundred 9 G8 



Goldorfe (Golden ide) per hundred ... 12 10 



72.— VARIETIES OF CARP IN SAXONY. 

 By I>R. OSCAR HUNGER. 



My father, in Saxony, raised both the scale and naked carp. At least 

 I suppose that what you call naked carp is the same which is there 

 called schleie. The latter is an inferior fish, the flesh being too soft and 

 slimy. It grows slower and to a less size than the commoner scale carp, 

 learpfen. Besides the common blue-scale carp and the naked carp, 

 sclilcic, there is a third kind of carp, which is not cultivated, but infests 

 ponds in Saxony. It is a degenerate kind of carp, Tcarausche, or wild 

 carp. It is quite worthless, not growing over one foot in length, full 

 of bones, ugly in appearance, and hardly fit to be eaten at all. That 

 was 40 years ago, before I left Germany. Perhaps they have since 

 exterminated it. 



Madison, Ind., October 11, 1883. 



