392 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



GROWTH, SPAWNING, AND DISTRIBUTION OF GERMAN CARP 

 REARED FROM 20 FISH FURNISHED BY THE UNITED STATES 

 FISH COITCMISSION, NOVEMBER 29, 1**0. 



By KE1VIP QAINES. 



[From letter to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



My fish did not increase any until the past summer [1882J. During 

 the summer and fall I have furnished young Carp for stocking twenty- 

 three ponds with from two to five dozen fish to each pond. I have kept 

 over three hundred for stocking two ponds of my own which I con- 

 structed the past summer. When I drained my pond this fall I found 

 that I had lost hut one of the fish received from you, having nineteen 

 old fish living and weighing from 4 to 6 pounds each. About one-third 

 of the young fish hatched last spring and summer were from 6 to 7 

 inches long. By feeding tliem regularly they will grow much larger in 

 the same length of time. I let one of my neighbors have forty-eight 

 young fish from 2 to 4 inches inches in length, on the 20th of July, 1882. 

 He fed them scraps from the table most every day. The 1st of Novem- 

 ber he drained his pond to stop a leak in the embankment and took the 

 fish out. I was present and measured several myself. None were less 

 than 8 inches, and many of them 12 inches long. 



Sixteen applicants who did not get their ponds ready this fall expect 

 to stock them next summer. If I still have good luck I think I will be 

 able to fill all applications I may get another year. I have separated 

 my scale and leather Carp, thinking they will do better. 



Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, 



December 11, 1882. 



RAISING BROOK TBOUT IN MINERAL WATER. 



By CHARLES A. WILSON, M. D. 



[From letter to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



Mr. P. S. O'Rourk, superintendent of the Grand Rapids and Indiana 

 Railroad, has succeeded in raising a nice lot of brook trout here in a 

 pond of his make from the mineral water that we use in our bathing 

 department, and it is wonderful how they have grown. They were put 

 in the pond last June not one-eighth of an inch long ; now some of them 

 are eight inches long, and will spawn this winter. 

 Spring Beach Hotel and Sanitarium, 



Rome City, Noble County, Ind., 



December 1, 1882. 



