SECTION VIII. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



CHAPTER XL. 



FROG CULTURE. 



About once a year the story of a mythical frog farm, 

 where much wealth is harvested every season, goes the 

 rounds of the newspapers. Seth Green started it in an 

 article on raising frogs, published in one of the Re- 

 ports of the New York State Fish Commission, stating 

 how easily the spawn could be gathered and hatched ; 

 but he went no further ; he was widely quoted and that 

 was the end of it, if not the object of his paper. He 

 was right. They can be hatched in any quantity in 

 pools of still water at summer temperatures, and the 

 tadpoles can be fed and grown if protected until the 

 transformation into a frog comes, and then they leave 

 the water and catch insects ; it is impossible then to 

 feed them and they die. I speak from experience, hav- 

 ing been a student of the frog during a long career of 

 fishculture, covering thirty years. In the early days I 

 read of a successful irog farm near Nutley, N. J., and 

 went there, but no one knew of it, nor could I find the 

 man. A similar experience in Indiana made me skep- 



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