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In one pond I have yearling trout, and tliinking they were disappear- 

 ing rather rapidly, on June 3 I cleaned oat the pond, finding two eels 

 weighing about 2J pounds apiece, which 1 put into a can. Coming to 

 take them out an hour afterwards I was surprised to find that they had 

 disgorged two partly digested fish G or 7 inches long, which probably 

 they had swallowed four or five hours previously. 



In Hessel's pamphlet on carp it is stated that the eggs hatch in from 

 twelve to sixteen days.* My exi^erienco this year seems to reduce this 

 time by one-half. I have raised carp with success for three years. This 

 year, on May 18 I filled my pond with water; on the lOtli put in 24 

 large carp, which began spawning on the morning of the 21st; and on the 

 24th it became cooler and spawning ceased for the time. On the morn- 

 ing of May 27, six days after spawning began, there were about 10,000 

 young fish along the edges of the hatching pond, to which the eggs 

 and brush had been transferred the day before ; and on the 29th there 

 were probably from 15,000 to 18,000 young carp. 



Lake trout in Colorado. — I find that the few lake trout that 

 have been tried in the prairie lakes nre a success, and if you will send 

 me 10,000 eggs, I will put up another trough to hatch them. [John 

 Pierce, Denver, Colo., December 3, 1885.] 



South Side Sportsmen's Club. — We have had a very successful 

 winter's work in our fish hatching department, nearly a million eggs 

 of brook trout having been hatched, and there are about 50,000 rain- 

 l)ow trout eggs now on the trays. We have 0,000 three-year-old trout 

 in the ponds and streams. [Roland Redmond, March 25, 188G.] 



Carp in Rivanna River. — Anderson Brown, colored, caught out of 

 Rivanna River [probably in the neighborhood of Charlottesville, Va.], 

 with a hook, a German carp which weighed Gi jiounds and measured 24 

 inches in length and IG in circumference. [From the Lynchburg Ad- 

 vance, September 17, 1885.] 



Carp in Rivanna Rm]:R.— Carp are now being caught in the Ri- 

 vanna River which are supposed to be fugitives from the ponds of my- 

 self and others. Some time since one weighing G^- pounds was taken, 

 and yesterday one of 8.]- pounds. [R. T. W. Duke, Charlottesville, Va., 

 April 29, 188G.] 



To cook carp. — Carp may be either liied or stewed. Have them 

 cleaned nicely, then dry them and season with salt, pepper, and a little 

 mace, which rub in thoroughly, and let them lie in melted butter for an 

 honr or two before cooking them. Fry them the usual way. To stew 

 them put them into a saucepan with some chopped parsley, a whole 

 onion, a little sweet marjoram, a tcacupfiil of rich milk (or cream if 

 you have it), and a lumj) of butter rolled in flour. Pour on this suffi- 

 cient water to cover the carp and let it stew gently for about half an 

 hour, or until the flesh leaves the bones easily. Some consider that 

 a little port wine improves it. 



• See F. C. Report, 1875-'76, p. 872. 



