Nests and Nest Building. 



Whenever the spawning period occurs, ample warning will be 

 given, as the male Frogs will begin croaking for their mate, and 

 will be seen near the shore. Early in the spring is the breeding 

 season, and the Frogs will be seen in pairs, working in company, 

 selecting nests, which are in place where there is a vegetation to 

 attach the spawn, near the surface of the water, as the action of the 

 sun has much to do with the hatching of the spawn. 



Impregnation takes place immediately after the spawn is de- 

 posited, as with the spawn of fish. The spawn of frogs looks like 

 a gelatin mass in the shape of a bunch of grapes, and will be 

 found attached to some vegetation in the pond. This should be 

 immediately taken out with a large, long handle dipper and de- 

 posited in the hatching pond, as the spawn will be destroyed by the 

 frogs jumping into the pond and coming in contact with it, for if 

 the spawn is separated or broken up and sinks to the bottom of 

 the pond, where it cannot get the proper action of the sun, many 

 of the eggs will not hatch, but will be destroyed and eaten. The 

 nursery, or hatching pond, should be constructed in this way : 

 Make some skeleton frames that will set on the bottom of the pond, 

 and come within a few inches of the top of the water. Fasten the 

 frames down, either by weights of stakes driven in the ground. 

 Take some fine netting such as used on windows to keep out flies ;; 



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