PRACTICAL CARP CULTURE. 



appeared to be alive and when placed iu a dish of water splashed the water 

 over the floor and swam about apparently little worse for its journey. 



DO NOT HIBERNATE. 



CATCHING CARP THROUGH THE ICE. 



SHELBY, O., January 25, 1886. 



I constructed a pond of about an acre late in the fall of 1884, put in 126 

 young carp. They did no good. Again iu April last I put in 200 more. 

 They did splendidly. I caught some in the fall weighing from three to 

 four pounds. I also put iu the pond in the spring six brood fish. I now 

 have plenty young fish six to eight inches long, being twice as large aa 

 those I got in the spring for stocking. Do carp burrow in the mud in win- 

 ter? I say they do not, as the following will show. A few days after the 

 cold wave we had in December last, I cut a hole through the ice, put down 

 baited hook and caught six, some small and some large. Again on Jan- 

 uary 21 caught with hook and line some more. Again on last Wednes- 

 day, January 20th, I cut through six inches of ice and soon caught a three- 

 pound fish with hook. The bottom of my carp pond is composed of muck 

 and sand, so carp could get down very readily. The water in my pond is 

 chiefly surface water. My experience is that carp in mid winter lay still 

 on the bottom and in the deepest part of the pond. My pond has six feet 

 of water. I find I can only catch them in the deepest water and nowhere 

 lse. If carp burrow in mud in winter, how can they be caught with hook 

 and line. If any doubt let them coine and try themselves. 



C. C. Los**. 



PftBHllfU- THROUGH THE KJB. 



COLUMBIAN A, O., February 19, 1886. 



On February I2th I took two fifteen-iuch carp in less than fifteen min- 

 utes out of four feet of water with bait hook and line, through a hole cut 

 through six inches of ice; mercury 34 degrees. Again, on February 18; 

 mercury 23 degrees. No hibernation here. As to the different types of 

 carp, so far as edible quality is concerned, we consider there is just as much 

 difference as there is difference in beef of red, white, black and spotted 

 bullocks. But when it comes to the cleaning we prefer the full scale, they 

 are so much easier cleaned, one great advantage in their favor. As to 

 growth, there is a diversity of opinion; in my experience with the differ- . 

 ent types, should place it in favor of full scale carp. 



JAC. KNOPP. 



IS WARM WATER NECESSARY FOR CARP TO GROW WELL? 



PRINCETON, Ills., January 17, 1887. 



On Christmas day, 1884, 1 saw six large spawners swimming abreast in 

 my pond, which was covered with heavy ice, except a small place ten feet 

 in diameter at inlet. Again last week (January 13, 1886) I saw through 



