The beak of the tadpole is adapted to the eating of leaves and 

 other vegetable foods, and on which they could entirely subsist. 

 But it is well to give them access to small insect food, much of 

 which they can get from surface of water. The food changes en- 

 tirely when the tadpole develops into a Frog. When a frog, the 

 food is entirely insect or live food. It is well, sometimes, when 

 you cannot get facilities to supply naturally plenty of insect food, 

 to take some of the smaller Frogs and tadpoles and place them in 

 the ponds with the growing Frogs, and allow the Frogs to live on 

 them. They must be fed live food. Chopped meats and food of 

 this character will do for tadpoles, but must not be used too freely, 

 as they do not eat it readily, and it only decays and a stifling 

 stench follows. If your ponds are connected with a running 

 stream, much of the insect life for the tadpoles and smaller Frogs 

 is brought into the ponds by the stream, which is very desirable, 

 and saves much extra work. Leave the tadpoles in the nursery 

 pond until 'they have developed into Frogs. The tadpoles are fish 

 in a sense and will eat most anything, either vegetable or animal 

 matter. In fact, he is a scavenger, and will clean out the ponds. 

 But as soon as he turns into a frog, he requires a different class ot 

 food, as he is an amphibious animal. Remember this, as herein, is 

 one of the secrets that have caused so many failures. THE FOOD 

 FOR FROGS IS A'NIMAL FOOD. 



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