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through it, (I should have stated before that my ponds are fed by springs, 

 the ponds being about one hundred yards below them) in this box my fish 

 wintered finely. After cleaning out and repairing my old pond this 

 spring, I took my fish out of the box on the 9th of May, and put them in 

 the old pond, and in two days after they were in they literally covered six 

 cedar brush, which I had placed there, with eggs, and in just five days 

 they hatched out. My carp in the new pond spawned a little on the 6th 

 of May, the water being a temperature of 68 degrees. I have provided 

 both of my ponds with the Cary plan for draining. The ponds cover 

 about half an acre each, depth of water five and a half feet at the deepest 

 points. In conclusion, I want to state that half day's labor that I spent 

 in procuring and putting into my pond of that barrel of native fish has 

 cost me two years benefits of my ponds. If I could have had that little 

 book that I received afterward from the State Fish Commissioner, and 

 your valuable paper to read at the time I made my first pond I would not 

 have made that sad mistake. DANIEL HEINEY. 



50,000 CARP SOLD IN FIFTEEN DAYS. 



EDINBURG, IND., October 24, 1887. 



I have been very busy the last three weeks in fishing out and restock- 

 ing my carp ponds. I had to build this year five additional store rooms in 

 which to place my surplus carp, making eight in all. I thought these 

 would be ample room for all I would have left after restocking my waters, 

 but I found, to my surprise, that I did not have one-half the room I 

 needed, so 1 had to use one of my regular spawning ponds in addition to 

 the eight store rooms for the winter quarters of my surplus fish. I started 

 to count all my carp, young and old, but the number of fry was so great 

 that I gave it up, and counted only those that I put back in the ponds for 

 another year. Of course I will be able to report the number of carp I used 

 for stocking my own pond, as well as those that I sell in the future. 

 Since October 8 I have sold and engaged 50,000, nearly all minnows, and I 

 have used 30,000 for my own waters, making up to date 80,000 carp of all 

 sizes. Two of my smallest store rooms furnished them and still they are 

 not half emptied, so you may have some idea of the vast number. This 

 may seem fishy to you, but if you will come out I will convince you that 

 I have a good many carp. V. STILLABOWER. 



TRAP AND AUTOMATIC FEEDER. 



EAST LYNN, 111., October 26, 1886. 



Let me tell you how I had a nice ten-acre pond with thousands of carp 

 in but could catch none to eat. It is three-fourths of a mile from my 

 house, so it was difficult to feed regularly in a trap to catch them. Last 

 winter I built a cheap 10x12 feet building on the ice in the middle of the 

 pond. To make the building I took four poles sixteen feet long and eight 

 inches in diameter for the sills. I laid two of them on the ice side by side 



