The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-09-15
Farm and Home.
AND USEFUL INFORMATION.
FISH FOB FARMEas.
Every Farmer Should Have a Well
Stocked Fish Pond.
Cincinnati Comme-cial. /

CINCINNATI Commercial.
During the last four years there
has been much interest taken il the
cultivation of fish as an article Of
food. Through the labors of the
national and state commissioners
light has been thrown on the sub
lject of their cultivation. Among
other things it has been demonstra
ted that at very slight expense the
farmers may have at hand constant.
ly' a supply of fresh meat food that
will in some degree take the place of
animal food. Prof. Baird, United
States Fish Commissioner, declares
the carp to be, of all others, the best
adapted to the wants of farmers,
and calls it ''the farmers fish,
While trout and bass require not
onl y very pure but cool water. and
an abundance of it, and most of the
inferior varieties of fish require
water at least moderately cool, clear
and abundant, the carp is liz it's ele-
meat in water moderately warm and
requires but little of it. 1t prefers,
the professor says, pond whose
bottom and banks are composed of
mud, the mud affording it a shelter
in cold weather, and producing
plants which it relishes as food
The carp is not dainty feeder. 1t
will eat anything that pigs and fowls
relish, and will devour insects, small
reptiles, and meats OF all kinds. 1t
also eats nearly all kinds of green
vegetables, fruits and garbage. 1t
can be fattened on grain as easily
as pigs and turkeys are, and the
young are especially fond of sweet |
curd and liver. The carp possesses
a number of good qualities that rem
der it a valuable fish. 1t is thor
oughly domesiicated. 1t can be
transported easier and will live
longer out of water than any other
scale fish. 1t is exceedingly prolific,
a large one often yielding as many
as 100000 eggs. No Matching house
is needed. The eggs hatch in few
days, and the young, when not dis
grow rapidly. 1t is posi-
BILE that the future farmers may
raise carp as they now raise beef
and pork for table use and for mar
ket.
Staunton (Va.) SPECTATOR
We have frequently called atten
ion to the German carp as a fish
specially adapted to the farmer for
raising as a food fish in small ponds
IT streams. From the Winchester
papers we learn that in April last
Mr.. E. R. Thacker received from {
he United States Fish Commits
Iioner lot of German carp, the !
argest OF which at the time she re
eived them was not more than two
inches long, and weighed not more !
han two ounces. He placed them l
n the dam at his paper mill, and, t
7hen the water was drawn of re-
emily for the purpose of cleaning I
be dam, the largest of the fish was
ound to be ten inches long and /
,eighed one pound, and not one fish i
D the lot under eight inches. This i
Extraordinary increase was made in
,ss than three months. t
ew York Observer -
Mr.. j. sRaynal recently showed to o
Ir. E. G. Blackboard, the New York v
tate fish commissioner, a carp "
eighing four pounds, which was 8
ne of ten which had been received u
'om the United States fish com
Missioner on the 18Th of September,
87S. When the fish were trans
lanted they were less than two p
lches in length. Mr. RaynsPs [
ond, near White Plains, Westches- il
IT county, is seventy feet long, thir- Ct
five feet in width, and its extreme Il
epth is eight feet. It. has been in S
Sc as an ice pond. 1t is well sur ly
FUNDED by vegetation. The carp e.
ave never been fed.