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rel, fasten it inside of the sack at the bottom and another one at the top of 

 the sack, with a short pole for a handle; put some corn, wheat or bread in 

 the sack and sink it under water. You can catch fish of any size in it. I 

 took four in this manner to-day; had orieVor dinner; weight 2j^ pounds; 

 very good fish. CHAS. F. JOHNSON. 



BROOKLYN VILLAGE, O., August 22, 1886. 



To catch carp in small ponds have a box (of size to suit) with bottom 

 fixed to feed the carp upon, and have six or eight inches open at the bot- 

 tom of the sides for them to enter, and the top to come out of the water 

 with pulley and rope to raise and lower the box, and on the inside have 

 another box to let down and close up the opening for the entrance of the 

 carp and if thoy are in, and when the water passes out you take out those 

 you want and put boxes and fish back again. 



JAMES GAY. 



BROWN'S VALLEY, Ind., February 21, 1888. 



To catch large carp and not small ones, bait with corn after being 

 soaked in water for ten or twelve hours ; put the hook through the point of 

 the grain and throw out along the edge of the pond at sundown; line tied 

 to limber switches stuck in the bank; go for your fish in the morning. 



PETER JAMES. 



CARP IN MINERAL, SULPHUR AND SALT WATER. 



IN SULPHUR WATER. 



WOODS CROSS, Utah, June 30, 1885. 



I have a carp pond containing one and-a-half acres. December 8, 1884, 

 I received twenty German carp from Washington. Eighteen I placed in 

 the pond for the winter, and two I put in a tank holding about 150 gallons, 

 fed by an artesian well. The water contains a little sulphur and iron, with 

 a temperature of 54 degrees Fahr. They wintered all right, although the 

 prevalent idea is that water containing mineral is injurious to the carp. 



JACOB GIERISCH. 



IN SALT WATER. 



BLTJE, Utah, March 31, 1886. 



December, 1884, I received twenty-one minnow carp, mirror variety, 

 of United States Fish Commission. Kept them in a pond 10x15 feet the 

 remainder of the winter. Early in the spring I found that they had grown 

 but very little, and removed them to a pond of about two acres, made by 

 draining a swampy piece of slough land and turning a mountain spring 

 into it. Late last fall I drained this pond and got thirteen (muskrats and 

 snakes got the other eight) carp measuring about fifteen inches in length, 

 and weighing from two to three pounds each. There was a thin scale of 



