Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-14

matters should be addressed to the Outdoor
Amusement Department u
TIE TOURNAMENT. = Communications
from several relative to the Forester Club
Tournament are received. The subject has
been very thoroughly treated, and we do
not think there is necessity for further
replies and charges, or discussion at this
time. The right will prevail, and the
friends of fair dealing.
CARP CULTURE-A CORRESPONDENCE
George Moshier Of Stockton addressed Levi
Davis of Forestville, Sonoma county, Cal,
the well-known carp cuIturist, recently,
asking him several questions. We publish
the letter and Mr.. Davis reply, as embody-
ing facts Of interest to carp culturists
STOCKTON, July 20, 1850.
Levi Davis-Dear Sir VIII you please
answer the following questions, and make
such additional remarks as you may deem
necessary TO assist any one in the culture
of the carp. You are thoroughly and by
experience posted Oh the culture OF carp.
Therefore | viii have to impose upon your
kindness to give me some general informa-
ton upon the subject. l lost twelve of the
fish received from you before got to the
city, but the remainder are doing nicely.
They have spawned, and from the appear
ance of the small fry they are quite numer-
GUS
l. How often ought they to be fed
3 What would be the best food and the
different kinds
3. Are vegetables good for them?
4. Is cracked wheat or the screenings fit
for their food, and if so, how would You
feed it to them?
5. What kind of carp is mostly raised
g. How often do the fish spawn?
7. Is there any danger of the old fish
molesting or eating the spawn of the
younger fish, or must they be separated and
put in different ponds?
GEORGE MosHIER.
Mr.. Davis replies as follows: 81 have
Just returned home from camping tour in
Mendocino county, where game and fish
and berries of all kinds were plenty and TO
spare. | presume that there is as good
trout-Gshing in the streams up there as can
be found anywhere. a Mr.. Miner told me
that he took over 400 trout on the Attn of
July with hook and line. That is hard to
beat, and | think that | can show the best
OuOh- ball Ou CA SG-h. Vic IeAi1 anu bealAOn
on it weighing one and one-half pounds
after being dried. l found several letters
awaiting my answer, yours among them.
l am sorry for your loss of the carp, but
attribute it to your mismanagement in
some way, as | have shipped them to Ore
gon and Nevada and all over this State,
and have not lost greater number. feel
proud OF your success with the remainder.
You have plenty OF fl h lett, and the next
thing will be to know where to find room
for them. will copy short article taken
from the Germantown Telegraph of July
Sth. The writer says to the editor :;
Your article in last weeks paper regard
ing the carp induces me to give you a.
translation from German periodical,
which says: One of the largest female
carp was found dead in the outer basin of
the Berlin fish exhibition, and owing to its
enormous size was opened and weighed.
Its weight was % pounds, of which II
pounds were roe. By calculation, after
weighing a portion Of the roe and counting
the same, there were s, $50, 600 eggs Just
think of that. ! remember your astonish-
ment when | told you that you might
count on 1000 or l,500 from one female
iish- / now want a pond of 80 or 100 acres,
and will have it very soon, too. But to
your questions First-I might answer
! his by asking you how oftC n ou OF your
morse or stock should be fed ? l presume
hey want to eat at least twice each day,
as see them feeding evening and morn
Sng. But to save time and trouble you
may give them enough at one time to last
them as long as the food viii keep good,
never giving enough to sour the water or
create gases. The next three questions |
will answer as one The carp likes, above
all things else, vegetable matter, such as
cabbage, lettuce, potatoes, turnips, pump
kins, melons, the refuse OF malt from
breweries and distilleries, the refuse of the
kitchen and stable, chopped grain of any
kind, and, in fact, almost anything that a
pig will eat. All hard substances should
be boiled / prefer feeding at night.
E'ifth-0ur carp is What is Called the scale
carp, and were brought from Rhinefeldt,
Holsteiu. Sixth-It IS said that they
spawn two or three times in the year.
Seventh-They are not cannibals, and can
all be kept together.
MAUD S.-The critics who saw Maud S.
finish the third heat of her match race
with Trinket at Chicago in 2:l3l are not
all of the same opinion. Some contend
that the young mare could not have bet
tered the record more than half a second,
while others contend that she could have
stopped the hands of the watch at PIP.
BAR does not pull the mare when going at
her best. He uses the lines as if they were
two cotton threads therefore we do not
Law much stress upon the fact that he was
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the grand stand. He might have been
sitting thus with the six-year- old doing just
as well as she was capable of dong. She
trots on her mettle, and so does not require
urging and lifting. In fact the quickest
way to rattle her is to subject her to little
of the old school urging. Our own opinion
is that Maud S. could have gone faster.
We do not say that she could have beaten
DIP. nor do we side with those who insist
that there was not quarter of second
left in her. We believe that she was cap
able of edualing, If not beating, st. Juhen's
2:l23. Nevertheless, we are frank to say
that the prudence Of Bair was commend
able. He was afraid of straining and per-
manently injuring valuable piece of
horseAesh, consequently did not urge her
when he felt her faltering, dying, in his
hands.-[Turf, Field and Farm.
EXCELLENT RULES. The following reso-
buttons have been adopted by the State
Board OF Agriculture
Resolved That in all trotting and pacing races,
and all running races. drivers and riders shall be
neatly clad, and appear upon the track in apparel
unohjeetionable the judges. That in running
and trofting and pacing races drivers and riders
shall caps and jackets OF distinctive coors, cap
and Jacket 70 be OF Ike color.
Resolved, That the Superintendent Of the park
procure one dozen caps and knit jackets, Of dis
tine.iye color, for the of drivers in trOtting
races the 10 be kept in the Secretarys office
at the park, and taken therefrom and returned
thereto daily after by such drivers do not fur
rish their jackets and caps, or those not OF
proper color.
Resolved, That the names OF all racing horses
trottinz, pacing and running-be plainly displayed
over the door Of the box or stall OF each OF such
horses.
A large blackboard will show the name
of each horse in the race. his position in
each heat, and the color of the drivers cap
and jacket. II will be so large that the
letters can be seen from all parts OF the
stand. The board will be set between tall
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