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this season of the year. They are taken sometimes by 

 beating them with long poles as they sit on the banks of 

 the streams and ponds. The extreme voracity of the 

 frog is easily taken advantage of, as it will leap after and 

 seize almost anything that floats on the waters near the 

 banks, having the appearance of life, and in motion. A 

 hook and line, baited with an insect, or covered with a 

 piece of red flannel, serves as a good tempter to the frog, 

 who will generally seize it without hesitation or difli- 

 culty. After being caught, they are preserved in large 

 frog ponds, or froggeries, as they are called, until they 

 are required for the market. There are a number of 

 these froggeries on Long Island, in Westchester county, 

 and in New Jersey, from whence the city markets are sup- 

 plied. The proprietors of these froggeries send the frogs 

 to market at regular intervals, and they are kept alive 

 until the customers purchase them. The principal places 

 where they are sold in quantities in New York city are 

 Fulton, Catherine, and Washington markets, where they 

 can be obtained from a number of dealers. The prices 

 range from 50 cents to 2 dollars per dozen, according to 

 the size, appearance, and quality; but when they reach 

 the restaurants their valae becomes much greater, de- 

 pending upon the purses and appetites of the customers. 

 Several of the hotels and large restaurants are supplied 

 directly from the froggeries, and do not purchase from 

 the market dealers, but the majority obtain them from 

 the marketmen as their demands require them. 



A correspondent in a Troy newspaper states that he 

 watched two men catching frogs in a swamp. "They 

 would strike them with clubs where they could reach 

 them, but most of them they caught with a wire snare. 

 They had a large basketful, more than a hundred pounds 

 in weight. One of them said he made a good deal of 

 money catching frogs for the New York market, having 

 in one month last season caught 1,600 lbs. of dressed 

 frogs, for which he got 30 cents a pound, making 480 

 dollars for his month's work. Part of the time he had 

 two boys to help him. One week, near Hudson, he 



