MISCELLANEOUS APPENDIX. 



The purpose of this appendix is to place the reader in direct com- 

 munion with some of the persons who have succeeded in carp culture, 

 and many of them beyond their highest expectations. Their inexpensive 

 ponds, and the simple methods by which they attained success, cannot 

 but be interesting, instructive, and encouraging to others. Our difficulty 

 in compiling this portion of our work arose from the superabundance of 

 material. In selecting from it our sole desire has been to serve the very 

 best interests of our readers. From many letters then we have taken only 

 a brief extract, touching some particular phase of the subject, while 

 others we present in almost their entirety. Because of several subjects 

 touched in the same letter, it was very rrard to classify them. But each 

 one will speak for itself and all are worthy of reading. 



It is but just to say that the writers of these letters are all of them 

 subscribers to our monthly publication, "American Carp Culture," and 

 all of them acknowledge the great aid they have received from it. Where 

 not otherwise specially stated each of the following communications was 

 addressed to us: 



INCREASE OF CARP PRICES HARDIHOOD, ETC. 



MT. MORRIS, Pa., May 7, 1885. 



My fish are doing fine. Drained Nos. 2 and o ; No. 2 contained eighteen 

 three years old. No. 3 had twenty-four two years old in it. We took from 

 these two ponds of last year's spawn 3,634 fish by actual count. I did not 

 drain my large pond, No. 1 ; in this pond I have my four and five years 

 old fish. We are cooking them pretty freely now. Some say that carp is 

 unfit to eat? 1 (sour grapes) ; they are too lazy to build a pond. I am well 

 pleased with the taste of my fish and all that eat them are delighted. 



J. W. LONG. 



BEDFORD, Ohio, June 13. 1885. 



Nearly every one in constructing ponds finds he lacks something or has 

 made some mistake ; I have three ponds and have sold 2, 000 fish this spring. 



J. C. ALEXANDER. 



MARTINSBURG, O., October 20, 1885. 



I drained one of my ponds the 16th, and had, actual count, 4,323 young 

 fish, besides several hundred that got through strainer box. We had for 



