6 FISH—CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
water. There it will remain, for trout would scorn to go to the 
bottom for food. My notice was attracted to the fact that just 
as soon as I commenced to feed, two companies of fish could be 
seen—the trout on the top with their backs out of water, and the 
carp on the bottom with their heads down, rooting like hogs for 
the fragments that might escape the princes of the pond. 
In this way I discovered that carp will eat chopped fish with 
a relish, for my trout are never fed on anything but the young 
of the goldfish—discolored ones—commonly known as silver 
fish. My carp have no other food, and it is settled in my mind 
that they liked it, and that it agreed with them. 
I never saw fish so fat, and there are gentlemen in Brooklyn 
who had the pleasure of dining on some of them, who will 
verify my testimony in this particular. None of the six carp 
showed at any time the slightest sign of spawning. 
During the first week of November I took them from the 
pond, and they weighed from 5 to 7% lbs. each. Three of them 
I killed for my epicurean friends, and the remaining three I 
rolled up in a wet bag. I started with them for Brooklyn at 
3 P.M., and on my way met Mr. James Ridgway, counselor-at- 
law, and Messrs. Page and McLean, of the Zag/e, who carefully 
examined them. I gave the dead ones to my friends, and placed 
the living ones on the roof of my house, with two wet bags over 
and beneath them. There they remained all night. Next day 
at 2 p.M. I took one of them to the Zag/e office, and there showed 
him still alive and in good condition, but as the tender-hearted 
Kinsella thought some of Mr. Bergh’s men ought to.be sent for, 
I made my escape, and went to New York to Messrs. Middleton 
& Carman’s fish establishment in Fulton Market. These gentle- 
men were more consistent, and instead of calling on Mr. Bergh 
they proposed to give the carp a drink after his long journey. 
That suited us all, and for the first time in twenty-four hours 
Mr. Carp was in his native element, and it is needless to say that 
he enjoyed it. 
The New York Suwz noted the fact that of the fish distributed 
by the United States Commission, this was the largest one yet 
found in our waters. It turned the scales at 73 lbs. 
The other two still remained in the wet bags in Brooklyn, and 
