AND OF STILL WATERS. \\ 



Europe, he decided in favour of experi- 

 mentalizing on carp, and began operations by 

 importing some from one of the breeding esta- 

 blishments in Germany. Captain Milton Pierce, 

 Secretary of the American Carp Cultural Asso- 

 ciation, gives a most interesting account of the 

 breeding from these imported German carp, 

 and the efforts to improve on them, until at last 

 these efforts were crowned with success by the 

 production of the scaleless American carp. 

 " It has been our aim for years." says this 

 triumphant carp culturist, " to breed from those 

 specimens having the least quantity of scales, 

 and this scaleless carp is simply the result of 

 this careful breeding. It is practical evolution 

 from full scale to scaleless types." 



The Americans are the first who have devoted 

 so much attention to this question of scales v. 

 no scales. This sublimated and scaleless type 

 of carp, which should be " as smooth as a frog," 

 is peculiarly the result of American breeding. 

 The Germans have three kinds of carp, which 

 are known as scale, leather, and mirror carp, 

 but none of these are as perfect either in shape 



