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could stand on the inside and pick up the polywogs. It 

 is absolutely necessary to the preservation of the young 

 fry that these precautions should be most strictly ad- 

 hered to. You will have no trouble in feeding the young 

 while they are polywogs, as nature has provided for that. 

 In all waters they live on what is called sediment that 

 collects on everything lying in the water, unless it is 

 strong impregnated with some mineral. 



Examine this sediment under a strong magnifying 

 glass and you will see that it is all animal matter, or a 

 formation between animal and vegetable, and is proper 

 food for the young fry. They will eat it off from the 

 sticks and stones on the bottom of the pond, and keep 

 them perfectly clean. An old pond is better than a new 

 one, as it has more food. 



The polywogs will grow and after a while develop in- 

 to frogs. We cannot give the precise time required for 

 this change as we have had them change in one season 

 or go years without doing so. Probably this depends 

 upon the temperature of the water, and that the warmer 

 it is the faster development occurs. The hind legs break 

 through the skin first and are followed by the front, the 

 perfect frog varying in size according to the size of the 

 tadpole. When it is finally developed the frog requires 

 different kind of food, such as insects, small fish or meat. 

 Naturally it will only take living food, and difficulty 

 may be experienced in teaching it to live on any other. 

 It will eat minnows, young tadpoles, or flies of any kind, 

 but the ooze on which it existed in its transitory state is 

 no longer sufficient. Flies may be attracted to the pond 

 by placing stale meat around it, and minnows can be 

 supplied in certain quantities but the question of feeding 

 the frog is the difficulty in frog culture. 



