136 Fishing in North Carolina. 



such as liver, or meal dough, and although I 

 think their sense of hearing is deficient they 

 can be taught to come to the "bell" at a certain 

 hour everyday. 'For hundreds of years the carp 

 in the pond at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, 

 Germany, have thus been fed. 



The ten acres, more or less, devoted to the 

 fish pond, after the second year will annually 

 return more dollars worth of food, saying noth- 

 ing of the sport, than the original value of the 

 acres plus the two hundred dollars cost of the 

 dam, and the value of the farm will thereby be 

 enhanced. 



Any kind of dam besides the one recom- 

 mended will answer, the great desideratum be- 

 ing strong and tight, such as log or rock, which 

 muskrats cannot interfere with. A dirt dam 

 can only be protected against the rat by using 

 cement or vdre, imtil the roots of trees have 

 webbed it firmly together. 



In the open land, the pond should be well 

 ditched so as to prevent surface water from en- 

 tering it except through the natural channel ; in 

 thf woods, this does not matter so much. 



