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will make great feeding ground. T do not think the Kingfisher does any 

 harm. He thins out the top minnows which are always on top of the 

 water. My carp do not come to the top of the water unless the sun shines 

 bright and no wind. J. J. THOMAS. 



WAUSAN, Wis., Feb. 11, 1888. 



I certainly should think many claims made for the carp "fishey," 

 had I not had some experience with them, and will candidly say that the 

 most extravagant claims made for them comes fairly within the limits of 

 possibilities and truth. Last year I raised 1,250 young fry, from 2 to 4 

 inches, from 11 breeders in a ditch 4 feet wide and about 20 rods long with 

 water from 1 inch to 18 inches deep, and cattle and hogs occupying fully 

 one-third this length in common with the carp, which made the water so 

 muddy that no fish could be seen. Don't think this is the home I intend- 

 ed for my carp; no, I was going to have a nice little pond of about an 

 acre, but the dry season prevented anything but the ditch from filling. 

 And now after drawing my pond ( or rather my ditch ) and finding all my 

 old fish (more than double the size,) and the 1,250 young ones; I 

 can take any carp yarn you can spin. One thing more that I have not seen 

 in your paper. It was late in the fall when I drew off the water and it 

 froze quite hard that night, and the next morning I found several fry 

 frozen in the ice in a small hole back some distance from the collector. 

 These I thought, of course, were dead, but I put them in a pail with water, 

 and to my surprise, when the ice was thawed enough to release them they 

 swam around as if nothing unusual had happened. A few were kept in 

 water to see if they had received any injury by freezing; they are well and 

 lively to-day, fully proving that carp can be frozen in solid ice without any 

 injury. R. E. PARCHER. 



FRENCHTOWN, PA., Feb. 27, 1888. 



1 have a carp pond of \y z acre. About 18 months ago 1 first put in 110 

 carp that were about 4 inches long, and 10 months ago I put in 7 spawners 

 that were from 22 to 30 inches lone. Last October I drained the water off 

 and was surprised to find more than 50,000 little carp that were from 1} 

 to 7 inches long; and the 110 small carp that I put in 18 months ago meas- 

 ured 16 and 18 inches long. On the day I drew the water from my pond I 

 sold $95 worth of the small fish. I assorted them in sizes under 3 inches, 

 over 3 and under 4j^ inches, over 4> inches and under 6 inches, and sold 

 them at proportionate prices. 



1 JOSEPH BRUNOT. 



SALE OF CARP FOR TABLE USE. 



EDINBURG, Ind., December 12, 1886. 



I am selling carp for food fish. This last fall and winter, and up to 

 the present time, I have disposed of about 2,000 pounds and have yet about 



