The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-11-02
Fish Culture.
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Tie result OF the experience as idr as
it has gone. Last January obtained
from the Agricultural Department at
Atlanta seven German carp and
placed them in a pond at this place.
Near the last OF April the pond was
emptied through we'll Constructed
flood gate over winch wire seiNe
was carefully placed to prevent the
escape Of the fish. Only five OF the
seven were found and they were do
ing well. They were only three
inches long when placed in there in
January, in April they were five
inches long. Cen the tenth instant
! the pond was again emptied and they
were found to have grown to the
great size OF touteen inches in length,
1 eleven inches around the body aud
the three largest weighed within
fraction of three pounds each--the
three weighed together eight and
half pounds. They were weighed in
presence of thirty or forty ct the
guests of the hotter and quite nuns
Der OF citizens and were said by all
to be the most beautiful fish they had
ever seen. They are OF the Mirror
species Of carp and in perfectly clear
water look black and lii bright mud
dy water have a golden color. They
eat anything that chicken OF pig
will eat, but have avoided feeding
them with anything that has salt in
it, as salt is poisonous to fish. The
food they seem TO prefer most. is
roasting ears or corn in the milk stage.
Tie grains should be split down the
row and. then cat off the cob for
them.
The pond is seventy-fve feet in
diameter, and is four and half feet
deep, and is supplied by springs in
its bottom. There is no branch runs
Mug into it. 1t was excavated Tor
swimming pool, but was found TO be
too cool tor bathing purposes, and
was converted auto fish pool. The
coolest springs IN it have tempera-
ture OF titly-iour Fahrenheit. 1t has
a muddy bcttom-exccpt in one
corner where 1t is rocky, and where
there are some very cold and very
bold springs. The bottom is full of
water plants, which grow to the top
of the water. And, strange to say,
in the same pond / have the Red
Speckled mountain trout-or proper
iy speaking the 'Land Locked Sal
mon." l had ten OF the trout brot
from neighboring stream in the
mountains and placed in the pond on
the End day OF July last, and on the
10th day OF September they were all
found alive and dong well, and were
more than twice as large as when
they were put in on the I'd OF July.
The German Carp are said to res
quire warm sluggish, muddy water,
and the Red Speckled trout Gland
locked Sallnon) are SAID to require
pure, clear, cold and rapid streams,
hence the seeming success of both iu
this pond presents problem for
those who profess to be authority on
fish culture. The Land Locked
Salmon, OF, as it is called in the
mountains, the Red Speckled Trout,
are very abundant IN the New Eng
land STATES, but are not tonpd III the
South, except in this immediate por.
ton OF Georgia aud iu portion of
North Carolina; and iii the southern
country can exist only, il Is SAID, III
streams that are three thousand feet
or more above the sea level.
This winter | shall remove the carp
to another pond Immediately below
and adjoining this, and will give
up this one to the trout, aud will
have three hundred OF them brought
out OF the mountains near by, and
put them IN there TO ascertain II they
will produce young ones IN it. The
experiment has already demonstrated
that they will live and grow finely III
this pond, and l will now experiment.
10 see if they will spawn and produce
young ones therein. A pond OF these.
trout will be fancy and expensive,
but a pond OF carp will be interesting
and profitable. This summers growth
OF tie carp satisfies me, tina. at one
year old L can have them Tor table
use at the hotel here weighing three
pounds each, which is large enough
tor use and believe lheyawill weigh
ten and twelve pounds at two years
old.
give you this communication that
your readers may know what can be-
done in this county with fish.
HENRY L. FARRoW,
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