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5,000 pounds on hand, which I am holding for the Lenten season, when I 

 expect a readier sale and higher price for them. What I have sold have 

 given good satisfaction, except a few that were small, not weighing more 

 than one pound each. I would recommend no one to offer carp in market 

 under two pounds in weight; three pounds and upwards would be better. 

 I sell at from 12> to 15 cents per pound. V. STILLABOWER. 



DORR.ANCE, Kans , March 6, 1887. 



My pond is only 250x25 feet, with a spring, which is very rare in this 

 part. I sold a good many fish for table use, last October, for fifteen cents 

 a pound, and folks come to my place to get more; they say they never ate 

 any fish that were as good. In January last, when the mercury was about 

 20 degrees below zero my under drain got damaged and let the water out, 

 clear to the bottom. I could not get to the fish as there was eighteen 

 inches of ice; and I never expected to see any of them alive again, as there 

 was very little water coming and I could not stop the leak for three days. 

 But when the ice broke up I found all alive, with the exceptions of one, a 

 four-pounder. The rest were all half that size. 



W. BUNKER. 



WAVERLY, Ohio, Jan, 7, 1888. 



Last March (1887) I sold an express load of carp in the rough for 

 cents per pound. They sold like hot cakes. I had but one complaint and 

 that man said they were too fat. W. B. LEE. 



CATCHING CARP. 



CLAYTON, Mo., November 8, 1885. 



Make a thick mush of corn meal, put plenty of salt in beforehand, 

 cook it well, take pieces of cheese cloth 1} to 3 inches square (which is as 

 large as can go in the fishes mouth) tie the mush up in this, pass the hook 

 through the cloth to the inside, being careful not to let it come out on the 

 opposite side of the ball, fasten lines to your hook about 2% feet long, take 

 a small wire long enough to reach along the dam of the pond or along the 

 deepest and straightest edge of the pond. Tie your lines to this wire at 

 about four feet apart, and stretch your wire so that the bait on the hooks 

 will just touch the sloping side of the dam or bank. I have found this 

 place mostly frequented by carp in search of food, and the bait being on 

 the ground and not suspended in the water, they can better find and take 

 hold of it, or in feeding they get it in their mouth. I use the bass hook 

 for this purpose; care must be taken in landing them, as they are very 

 tender and will tear out their mouth. I have caught several that weighed 

 from 2> to 3 pounds in this way. E. B. BROUSTER. 



MOUNT UNION, July 19, 1886. 

 To catch carp take au old bone-dust or coffee sack, a hoop from. a bar- 



