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of the pool to get their food at the ringing of a bell. They should be fed 

 regularly. The best time is just at the rising of the sun, but any other time 

 will answer, but it should be done about the same time every day. 



Mr. D. Richardson, of Baird, has a small tank built expressly for carp rais- 

 ing, and speaks in the very highest terms of his success. He has been sup- 

 plying his neighbors with young carp, and wherever they have taken care of 

 them they have been successful. One of the principal objections brought 

 against the carp is that it has an earthy flavor; it tastes like the mud. This is 

 largely due to the want of care in dressing. The following instructions should 

 be followed in cleaning a fish: "Take off the scales by scraping and scrape 

 the skin thoroughly so as to remove the mucus matter. After removing the 

 entrails the cavity should be thoroughly cleaned of all fatty matter, and the 

 white, bladder-colored skin with which it is more or less coated taken out. 

 When thus cleaned place the fish in a moderately strong brine for six to 

 twelve hours. When taken from the salt water if it be intended to fry the 

 fish it should be cut into suitable sized pieces, wiped dry, salted, and rolled 

 in corn meal, and then placed in a pan of hot boiling lard and cooked until 

 thoroughly done." 



The State has done very little towards protecting the fish in her territory, 

 and the laws passed have been "dead letters" on the statute books. The 

 practice of killing fish in the streams with dynamite is reprehensible in the 

 highest degree, for it not only kills those of suitable size for food, but de- 

 stroys the smallest minnow that may be in reach of the explosive. 



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Very little time has been given by me to this subject, either in the way of 

 making observations or collecting specimens, and the work done and the 

 specimens collected were more a matter of accident than otherwise. That the 

 field will be very interesting and will be rich in specimens there is every reason 

 to suppose. It is thought by those who have given this matter some atten- 

 tion that the mound builders of the East probably had a line of travel between 

 their settlements along the Mississippi and other eastern rivers, to South 

 America, passing somewhere through Texas, and that probably they bad 

 numerous settlements along the way. Before anything like definite conclu- 

 sions can be reached and expressed on the archaeology of the State some 

 systematic work will have to be done. 



The country everywhere gives evidence of its once being the home of the 

 more recent tribes. Flint instruments are found scattered about the country 

 everywhere. Along the rivers and creeks and near the permanent water 

 holes and springs the ruins of ancient villages are found. These villages often 

 cover as much as one-half mile square. About such villages these flint instru- 



