122 PRACTICAL CARP CULTURE. 



slow; keep adding on butter, so they won't burn. They are good enough 

 for me. JOHN N. BROKAW. 



TURNING OUT THE HOGS TO MAKE ROOM FOR CARP. 



WASHINGTON, KAN., May 12, 1885. 



I have been experimenting with cnrp ponds for the last three years. 

 I first made them in small streams that drained my farm and stocked 

 with IT. S. fish, but so far the results have been pro bono publico, for an 

 occasional very high freshet would permit the fish to go to other ponds, 

 and, like the boy whose tea-kettle fell overboard into the sea, I know 

 where they are and went to, though I can't put my finger on them. In 

 Europe and in England, as a disciple of Walton, I have occasionally and 

 rarely hooked a carp, in the Thames and its tributaries. They live in the 

 streams with other fish, even the pike, but not in large numbers, having 

 so maoy enemies to contend with. They attain a large size and are highly 

 prized as a table fish, coming next to speckled trout. This year I am 

 making my ponds in low places on the side of small streams or where the 

 rainfall on the hills will fill my ponds without overflowing. I have no 

 doubt of the success of carp culture in Northwestern Kansas. The French 

 political economist counts fish raising a very important factor in furnish- 

 ing food for the people. In fact I have turned the porker out of my lots 

 and am substituting fish ponds in their place, and expect to reap a reward 

 by a larger profit in money, and in improved digestion by their use at the 

 table, for when the Jews of old tabooed pork for centuries there was 

 wisdom in it, for we are apt to become as gross as the diet we feed on. 



CHAS. WILLIAMSON, M. D. 



On April 15, 1886, Mr. Williamson writes: I shipped fish last year in 

 June, of ttoe new hatch, 125 miles, that were only three-fourths of an inch 

 long. They survived the trip and have done well. I shall ship 1,000 in a 

 can in the same way this season to stock other ponds, for I do not want to 

 pay too dear for my hobby. 



WATER SUPPLIED BY WIND MILL BOTTOM PUDDLED BY HOGS. 



TAYLOR, OGLE Co., ILL., April 13, 1886. 



I wrote you last summer that I was going to sink a well and put up a 

 wind mill and lay pipes to supply two ponds, the ponds being sink holes 

 that the hogs had packed or puddled the bottom so they held water. I 

 went 84 feet for water, put in a three inch cylinder and a ten foot wheel, 

 and could raise the water in one pond three inches a week without any 

 rain, the pond 100 feet across. The ponds are no deeper now than they 

 were when the ground froze last fall. The edges freezing expanded the 

 soil, and when thawed left them loose and the water soaked away. I got 

 a few fish the 6th of July, and they grew so fast that I got 600 of their 

 brothers and sisters the 19th of August out of spring water. My fish are 

 all right this spring. The first ones that I got are 11 to 12 inches long and 

 weigh 13 to 15 ounces, the last ones are nearly six inches long and weigh 



