118 PRACTICAL CARP CULTURE. 



All the above temperatures was taken six inches below the surface of the 

 water. June 12, 8 p. m., thermometer was 65 deg. in open air; three feet 

 below the surface of the water 72 deg. ; June 13, three feet below the sur- 

 face, at 6 a. m., 70 deg. ; temperature in open air 60 deg. ; at 4 p m., four 

 feet deep, 72 deg. The water was seven feet deep at this place. In my 

 pond No. 1 the carp spawned April 21, May 11 and May 22. In my pond 

 No. 2 they spawned May 22 and June 7. In pond No. 1 I have six and 

 ten-pound heavy carp, and in pond No. 2 I have four and five-pound heavy 

 carp. I have scale carp. 



At our Eastern State hatchery they had to watch the old carp day and 

 night so they would not destroy their spawn. I am sure that my scale carp 

 did not eat a single egg. My scale carp always spawn a month earlier 

 than the leather carp do in my neighborhood. A carp hatched in April 

 will be much ahead of a carp hatched in May or June, not only in the first 

 year but in all after years. D. N. KERN. 



TO PREVENT EGGS BLOWING OUT AND DRYING UP. 



DRESDEN, Tex., July 7, 1886. 



Let me tell you how to prevent the eggs from blowing out on the sand 

 and drying up in the sun, for I am out on the high prairies and not a tree 

 or shrub about my pond, and the wind has a fair sweep, as the water is 

 about level with the prairie around. Take strips of old grain sacks or 

 bagging a foot wide and six feet long, and nail to strips or sticks one inch 

 square by two feet long; small round poles will do, sharp at lower end, and 

 stick these down in the mud in the edge of the pond, so that six inches of 

 the bagging or cloth will be above water. The eggs hang on to the rough 

 cloth and the cloth will remain wet for two or more inches above water 

 and the eggs will hatch if they should be above water. 



B. F. CARROLL. 



LAKESIDE, KAN., Feb. 3, '87. 



This winter has been a hard one on Kansas carp, on account of ponds 

 getting so low in the fall and freezing solid. The native fish in the 

 creeks have fared no better. Some places, for long distances, nearly all 

 are dead. I have watched with interest the results of cutting fish out 

 of the ice, and have been able to hear of two carp, of about six pounds 

 each, being caught that way out of the creek and river several miles 

 from here. My carp went through January (ice was all out February 

 1st) without the loss of over one dozen, as I have between 50,000 and 

 100,000. I think that is doing very well. I have increased my ponds 

 in number and size until I now have three ponds, covering nearly 25 acres 

 of ground, stocked exclusively with carp. I shall make another pond this 

 fail to cover 15 acres, thus giving me 40 acres in all. Carp raising is no 

 longer an experiment. It is a reality. I can sell all I have for market 

 for 15 cents per pound live weight. Have sold Home, and the almost unani- 

 mous verdict was, "as good as I ever ate." What better do we want thuu 



