VA ur-TIionc CAL!FORMA. 
40’ 
A DISTINGUISHED IMMIGRANT PRO¬ 
FESSOR BAIRDS EUROPEAN CARP. 
In INTO, Professor Baird, United States 
of tin- up iv Bill, with which, before Ion", 
mom df mu leaders will doubtless tm- 
<Hiimi more directly Acquainted. 
Tla- < •£»!•)> Iwlotigs to the family known 
iiioriik], having been introduced many cen- 
tui ies ago from Central Asia or China, 
whein it is native. Cnrp aooti become 
... . .... . JH* « ni|> neiooga w Hie mmuj Known tame and oat from tho hands of (heir 
( omnuwioner of Iislicneis.having fora Inn" to naturalists ns the Cupiinidtr, mem Iters keeper; Dr. lfcs-nl handles those in the 
itovornment ponds ns if they were tamo 
kittens, and suvs that they come to him 
"hon lie whistles. Their fecundity is 
gi'cnt. A fish weighing four or five pm'iiul* 
lavs 400,000 to r.oo , 000 or more eggs, 
and one of ten or fifteen pounds about 
1,500,000. In Mid¬ 
dle Europe they 
spawn from May to 
August, and the 
breeding season an 
pears to be nearly 
the san ip in Wnsh'- 
ln 1H7!) 
. .. . W aim III IIIISLM lift ini' » ^inmff'r, IMt'ill I »C*i K 
time understood die importance of nceli-j<>f which arc to l.e found in c very stream 
mating the Carp in tins country , engaged and pond in North America. Good ex 
an eminent Gorman fish-cuRiirist, l>r. ample* of (hi- family arc the common 
Rudolph lies-, I, to bring over a supply of | Goldfish, and the familiar brook species 
I.Ik best varieties of this favorite Eii-J known everywhere bv such names as 
iopenn food-fish. The first experiment, iu 1 “ Dane ” 
May, ) 87<>, was un¬ 
ited-liu," 
Chub," 
Fall- 
» • * 
successful, and oat 
of 300, with which 
lie started, only 
four survived in 
May, 1377, Dr. 
Hcssel returned 
from o third trip, 
bringing to New 
York 34') young 
carp, 2'i 7 of which 
were of the varie¬ 
ties known as the 
"Leather Carp" 
and " Mirror Oarp,” 
and 1 IS of the eom- 
m on or "Scale 
Gul p. They I In live 
and increased rap¬ 
idly in size, and in 
May, 1873, ui)n hun¬ 
dred a ml twenty 
were removed to t he 
Government Cnrp 
1‘omls. built for them on the Washington 
Monument Reservation, in the City of 
W Hsliiii-dou. These ponds, n plan of the 
essential portion* of which is given below 
me constructed after the best German 
e!*, and cover about twelve acres of 
hind, the vicinity of the Washington 
Monument. ° 
'l l,,, /, , ... meimuuons: U u 
mi extent LT- n ° W T. t,,5 ,e ^ lo su,,, ‘ propagate t 
io?ko/:isTribil" P °“ ,1,1# *° b ^ uthe domMstUri in E 
jug them. The 
introduction of 
< liis new food-fish 
will be of great 
interest and im¬ 
portance to all in¬ 
land eomuuilics; 
W there is no 
ditch, pond, or 
mill-dain, or any 
boggy, muddy 
spot, which cun 
be converted into 
“ pond, iu which 
tlioy will nd 
thrive. It will 
be strange g t 
“■thin twenty 
Vi uis.curp do not 
become as com- 
m o u domestic 
animate as ducks 
* 1 pigeons. 
Through the 
t'-DJ of JTuf 
Rand we are able 
Tig, I. rue: r.cisu-Ms i'*nv [ClprinM C.irpin.) 
fish," and " Shiner " The " Buffrtlo- 
. ‘i °> lb** West is also said to rcaomhle 
it hi many respect*. The Carp, however, 
is the king of hi* tribe, amt those who 
know, do not hesitate to any that, us a 
food-iteli, it fur excels the beat of them. 
J . I > 1 i o, ^ ||r y 11 L“ 
nm/ rr/inul. It has been and insect-Inrvm, which 
urope from time mime- the mod nod nil W„.K 
I' present nn ex 
cellent engraving 
cling to plant,a and 
twigs, liu tolling in 
from nine In eigh¬ 
teen days, accord¬ 
ing to temporal ii^. 
The actual rate of 
l n (■ r v a a o is very 
great,owing in part 
to the fact that the 
parents do not de¬ 
vour their young. 
, . , , , The one hundred 
and twenty hd. brought to Washington 
two years ago have increased to. nt least 
twenty thousand It te IIuim nbl to ]joihi/i,I,) 
II hoil't <ij umlrr hi tlm /’ulUtsl v-rtant. ( „Uk r 
l ' ,r majority of Aunrmao food-JMrs, thru- 
JntS:& h fi % yrp <* 
<1 Itliri'li. It ban lll'ftTl ft 11 si lnumiLlnH...., ... 1 ,: 1 |. # j | ^ 
of refuse matter, 
such as the o/J'ul 
of kitchens, 
alaughti-r-liouaes, 
a ti d breweries. 
R y 1 ea h oD of 
these habits, //*»•»/ 
un: ho mi Inm lo 
“IO' r Jit'll' . i„holi- 
ilimj tin • luim, nm. 
Ova. 
Thr f’ui-p {g 
oilnfiii'il to i-rri/ 
vnritd cUmttlij, 
oml mill thru;- 
u mlar fond it ion a 
Uiifui'orulilrlo nm/ 
•'tptaUy pii I a I a- 
l‘lr Aiiirrii'iiu fish, 
It i.i von/ ho fill/ 
m till hIio/i'h if 
'trawl h. •'•Thu 
G«rp i„ aide," 
mi.vs Dr, 1 fosse!, 
" to live in watei 
m horo oilier fishes 
could not possibly 
exist; foriiislaiiea 
in the pmds of 
teig meadow w nr 
' "• Tartu i. l h ,Z.. V* TZ"""* 
. e.o.om, r,r,>:.' u L;t' wt 
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