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ice on this pond when I drained it, and as the water lowered about half of 

 the fish tore more or less of their scales off running through this scale ice. 

 I then placed them in a deep pond which I had made for them to winter in 

 and fed them some. They did not * hole up," but were feeding all winter 

 whenever the pond was open. This spring the thirteen are all alive, but 

 the ones that were hurt in the ice have fungus growth bad. The others 

 look fine. None of them have grown much this winter. I have made a 

 good hatching pond and placed them in it, hoping to get some young this 

 season. During the winter I bought fifty young and three spawners, scale 

 variety, shipped from Ohio. The express on the lot was about twelve dol- 

 lars. They all arrived in good order, and I kept them by themselves. I 

 have on my place a large,- deep pond of very clear, very salt water, with 

 lots of rushes around the sides, is fed by large salt spring, and is full of 

 small wild fish and snails. As an experiment I placed one of my small 

 carp in a small pail of this clear salt water, and changing the water daily 

 kept him in it until I was satisfied that he would live and do well in this 

 salt pond. I intend, with giant powder, to kill the small wild fish of this 

 pond, and after my mirror carp spawn shall rub the fungus off the affected 

 fish and place them in the salt pond. Will it kill or cure them ? And will 

 not fish be firmer and finer-flavored in the salt water than in a sluggish 

 fresh water pond ? My salt pond never freezes. 



IN MINERAL WATER. 



MORENCI, Mich., March 15, 1888. 



My neighbor, Mr. T. T. Baker, has a pond supplied by what is known 

 here and in Northwestern Ohio, as a fountain. That is a hole bored in the 

 ground, a gaspipe with a strainer inserted, from which the water flows. 

 The water appears to be impregnated with iron, or at least everything with 

 which it comes in contact becomes the color of iron rust. His pond is made 

 by excavating a ditch around a piece of land, leaving the center covered 

 with the native sod, and raising a bank outside and letting the water in 

 until the center is overflowed a foot or more and the water in the ditch is 

 four or five feet deep. It covers about 100 square rods of ground. In the 

 fall of 1885 he stocked it with a few spawners and 100 or more small fry. 

 In the summer of 1886 they spawned in May, and again later, and by fall, 

 1887, the pond was full of fish. In 1887 he commenced to use them, catch- 

 ing all of the first large ones, and some besides. The ice has been off his 

 pond for some time, while the ice on my pond, which is fed by a small 

 brook, is a foot thick. Last week he caught a mirror carp, with a hook, 

 weighing over four pounds and it must have been one of the small ones put 

 in at first, as his spawners were all scale carp. 



A. COMBS. 



GREAT VITALITY OF CARP. 



EIGHT HOURS OUT OF WATER. 



CHARLOTTESVILI.E, Va., March 18, 1884. 

 On Saturday evening I caught with a hook a carp which would weigh 



