PRACTICAL CARP CULTURE. 



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netting and is soldjby the yard. A little flower paste daubed on the in- 

 side of the bottom occasionally will quickly accustom the fish to visiting 

 it. The illustration is so simple as to need no further explanation. 



CANVASS STRETCHER FOR HANDLING CARP. 



In transfering carp from one pond to another, buckets, tubs, casks, 

 etc., are brought into use. Where the ponds are not so far apart but that 

 the transfer is made by hand instead of by vehicle, a stretcher such as 

 presented in the cut, will be much better than buckets, casks, or cans. 

 Contact with sides or bottom will not injure the fish and the carriers can 

 use both hands to the load. If the canvass is heavy it will hold water. 

 By placing uprights under the handles it can be used in a wagon instead 

 of casks. 



In large ponds a boat is a necessity, in small ones it is desirable. 

 The best for use is a flat bottomed skiff. At the fishing out rubber boots 

 are indispensable to every boy and man engaged. 



HOW TO TAKE CARP ALIVE TO MARKET. 



Thus far in the history of carp in America, lew, if any have been 

 placed on the market alive for table use. Many have been sold alive at 

 the ponds and a great many have been carted to market and sold in the 

 ordinary way dead and at prices ranging from 10 to 20 cents a pound, 

 and those persons once eating them clamored for more. But we believe 

 we are on the eve of the transition period. The chartering of a stock 

 company in Illinois referedto (page 32) is evidence of it. That. time will 

 come when the supply is ready to keep market tanks stocked. The 

 method of getting them alive to such depots will have to rest largely 

 with each individual culturist. In Germany the plan is to place them in 

 tanks on wagons and rush the wagons to the nearest navigated water 

 course, empty the tanks into boats with perforated bottoms, and in these 

 boats transfer them to the market towns, where they are placed in the 

 tanks of the .dealer. In this country railroad cars will have to take the 

 place of boats. But when the supply is ready and the demand created, 

 railroad companies, ever ready for fast freights, will afford facilities in 

 the shape of tanked cars. The one question then is their transportation 

 alive to the railroad stations, at that time, and to the local markets in the 

 meantime. This may be done in barrels and casks, or better in water 

 tight boxes from 2 to 2> feet wide, and long enough to slip comfortably 

 into a wagon box crossways, and of any height to suit. The advantage of 

 such boxes are that they fit close together and no space is wasted, and in 



