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dinner three two-pound fish, and all said they never ate better fish. They 

 have all grown beyond expectation. Young fish were from three to eight 

 inches long. IRA H. EWART. 



BLAKKSBURG, Towa, March 25, 1886. 



Complaint has been made of carp not living through our long, cold 

 winters, and that they are a tender fish, difficult to winter, but I know them 

 to be as hardy as we have in this part of Iowa. I have two ponds stocked 

 with carp, and last fall I planted 450 young carp in those ponds, that had 

 been shipped 500 miles in November, and they wintered all right. I have 

 the same old spawners that came safe through the winter, while the native 

 fish, grown by farmers in ponds along the creek, are dead such as bull- 

 heads, sunfish, suckers, red horse, chubs all our native kinds of fish. 

 Further, I have not heard of a single carp dying this winter that was not 

 hurt in handling in the fall. The carp is just the fish for the farmers to 

 grow. W. A. DAY. 



UTOPIA, Texas, May 24, 1886. 



I built me a pond in February which covers two acres. I cleaned the 

 small brush off and broke the land with turn plow, then harrowed it and 

 leveled the dam. Not a living thing in pond except a few trees. On the 

 9th day of April I put three German carp in. I saw no more of them till 

 lately. There were hogs, cattle, 34 ducks, 23 geese, and turtles, snakes, 

 crawfish, and frogs ; all went in all the time. On the 22d day of May, by 

 accident we found a young carp in a little neck of the main pond ; we then 

 began taking out, as I intended turning the water off, to stop some holes 

 that leaked water; we picked with our hands 324 carp three inches long; 

 don't know what is in the main pond ; will drain pond to-morrow. Those 

 fish had be%n laid, hatched and raised to that size in forty-three days. I 

 am 600 miles west from mouth of Mississippi river, 1,500 feet above sea 

 level, in the mountains. B. F. BIGGS. 



PULASKI, Tenn., April, 1887. 



I have four fish ponds with 2,800 carp that will spawn next season. 

 Started eighteen months ago with five carp three male and 'two female; 

 have from them handled and counted 4,000. 



THOMAS S. PITTA RD. 



McPHBBSON, Kans., April, 1887. 



Got twenty carp from Washington in November, 1882; they have never 

 been fed; have multiplied wonderfully. There are many six-pounders 

 among them, and small fry too numerous to mention. 



E. C. WELLS. 



WEST RICHFIELD, O., September 20, 1887. 

 In December, 1882, I received my first carp; lost all but eight. In Oc- 



