S££S-T!ME AN» HAHVEST. 
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thought of a carp pond, but did happen to 
make it so it answers a very nice purpose 
for both the water reservoir and fish pond. 
It is five feet deep in the centre of the pond 
and covers about half an acre of land. 
Eighteen months ago I put twenty carp in 
the pond, received from our national fish 
hatchery in Washington, free, by 7 express, 
none of them as large as my finger, and now 
we have thousands of them, all sizes, up to 
perhaps one pound. We have Lever fed 
them anything until about two weeks ago. 
We hauled gravel from a creek near by and 
made a nice bed to feed them on, and now 
we feed some waste food from the kitchen. 
We shall catch ours mostly with a seine, 
then confine what we wish in water boxes 
in the pond where we can get them bandy, 
unless we desire some rare sport, when we 
will procure plenty of angle-worms, hook 
and line, go down to the pond and sit in the 
hot sun, spit on the bait, fight musquitoes 
and catch fish. Oh, it’s fun! But you fin¬ 
ish the pond and the children will do the 
rest of the business.” 
NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
The World’s Fair. We have received a 
copy of the Premium List of the Depart¬ 
ment of Horticulture of the World’s Expos¬ 
ition of Industry, which is to open at New 
Orleans, La., September 1, and continue 
throughout the winter. This, it is thought, 
will be the grandest exposition ever held in 
America. The building for the horticultu¬ 
ral department alone will be six hundred 
feet in length and one hundred and fourteen 
feet in width, the walls and roof to be cov¬ 
ered with glass. It will furnish table room 
for twenty-five thousand plates of fruit and 
forty thousand square feet of table room 
for the exhibition of plants. The govern¬ 
ment of Mexico will fill five acres of this 
space. The states of Central America and 
other countries besides our own are to be 
represented. The premiums on hundreds 
of single fruits and collections range from 
$5 .00 to $250.00, aggregating many thous¬ 
and dollars on fruits alone. Hon. Parker 
Earle, of Cobden, Ill., the “strawberry king” 
of America, President of Miss. Valley Hor 
ticultural Society, is chief of the Depart¬ 
ment of Horticulture, and communications 
relating to this department should be ad¬ 
dressed to him as above. Excursion rates 
will be issued in all parts of the Union, and 
this will afford a fine opportunity for any 
of our friends in the north to pay the snnny 
south a visit. 
The vacation season is here, and the city 
boys, released from the restraints of schools, 
delight in “going a-gunning,” which means 
to roam through fields and pastures, often 
knocking down walls and banging away at 
an occasional robin or woodpecker. Like 
the men who trespass in the same unwar¬ 
rantable way later in the year, prowling 
about after quail, snipe and partridges, it 
can be said of them: “You have lived too 
long, if you persist in killing the innocent 
birds, and instead of a marble stone you 
deserve a white birch slab with this epitaph: 
“Here lies at rest 
A worthless pest 
Who had no soul to lose or save; 
And these four words, 
He killed the birds, 
Proclaims his worth who fills this grave.” 
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