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FROGS 
Few people realize what a large amount of frog meat is marketed 
annually in the United States. One southern state alcne reports near- 
ly a half million pounds valued at $290,276.00 average per year for 
five years, to the ircg fishermen and several times that amount to the 
consumers. 
It is rather surprising that frog raising on a commercial scale has 
not been further develcped. 
A small pond, easily made sufficiently water tight or even a large 
tank filled with water and some mud to support a few water plants 
will provide ample space for one or two pairs of jumbo breeders that 
will lay and fertilize from 8000 to 12000 eggs each pair, mcst of which 
will hatch into tadpoles. 
Tadpoles are easily provided with food, decayed vegetable or 
animal matter, boiled potatces or meal. Some breeders claim that by 
providing the tadpcles with ample food they will develope into frogs 
the first season instead of the second summer. 
As soon as the tadpoles develope legs they must have live food, 
bugs, worms, beetles, then as they grow larger, smaller frogs, tad- 
poles, small turtles, reptiles and even young ducks are not too large 
for a three pound bullfrog to swallow whole. 
When frogs are kept as breeders, pets or curiosities they may at 
first be fed angle worms or force fed, then by dangling shreads of 
liver or meat at the end of a pole and moved to imitate something 
alive they will eventually overcome their fear and even get tame 
enough to take food our of hand and the males may be taught to 
croak when desired. 
Unless raising more tadpoles to feed more frogs can be termed 
successful, our twenty years study of the proposition prompts us to 
say that in the northern states there has been no means devised to 
feed frogs on a commercial scale profitably even at the ridiculously 
high prices asked for frog legs in northern markets which are not 
one per cent supplied. Some southern advertisers claim crayfish and 
surface swimming minnows can be raised in sufficient numbers to 
onswer the purpose, we leave that for people living in the southern 
states to decide for themselves. 
We think we have a better plan, something after that which 
muskrat farming has developed into. 
Our plan only requires a mere fraction of the expense necessary 
by other plans. We will furnish giant breeders weighing from one to 
two pcunds not yet full grown but large enough to produce and fer- 
tilize from 8000 to 12000 eggs each spring for $5.00 per pair (not 
each) and for $5.00 more a bound volumn of instructions and other 
details as required, by correspondence. 
When your stock developes 'to the point they must have live food 
turn them loose in your nearest pond or lake and let them hunt their 
own focd without any trouble cr expense on your part. 
If this plan is practiced by a few hundred, individuals or groups of 
sportsmen or state game and fish commissioners in each state there 
is every reason to believe in a very few years the greater part of 
the millions and millions of % or 1 ounce frogs we now have in our 
10,000 lakes and ponds will be replaced by the one to three pound 
southern jumbos. The difference in value would amount to many 
millions of dollars and provide millions of pounds of the finest meat 
ever eaten. 
These jumbos from the south, in our experience have no more dif- 
ficulty in wintering in Minnesota by burrowing into the mud and 
becoming dormant than our own northern frogs. Tadpoles likewise 
will live in the mud and water if not frozen in the ice. 
Lake Sarah Specialty Farm 
ROCKFORD, MINN. a 

