Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-03-03

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spawn. am sure that there are fully 1000
fish ponds in California and adjoining States
to day that are stocked with carp from the
FIVE little fish brought out by Mr.. Pappe
The yield of all these ponds is enormous.
The greatest compliment paid to the carp,
however, was the order for full supply from
the Sandwich Islands, where wealthy resi-
dent who knew the virtues of fish had prepared
one of largest carp farms outside ofGermany.
The Pappe ponds do not have the same
demand for young fish as formerly, but they
Weld a fine revenue from the market de.
mand for fish for the table. Carp raising has
become favorite industry in California, and
Mr.. Pappe's adventure has added largely
to the wealth Of the State. do not know of
a carp pond tnat has been abandoned, and l
do know that the presence of one on place
that is offered for sale adds handsomely y to its
value and attracts purchasers.
"Are the Pappe ponds devoted entirely to
carp?"
dAll except one pond, and that is used for
the breeding of gold fish. This is the most
profitable pond of the lot, for gold fish sell at
fancy prices, and are very prosperous. Gold
fish are shipped from this farm all over the
country"
So this is the history of the FIRST experiment
with carp in this country-and surprising
result it is. And yet the results reached are
not more surprising than those reported by
Professor Baird, of the fish commissioners
experiment. From ninety fish as start, the
second crop allowed for the distribution Of
$4,000 fish, besides stocking the government
ponds. The third crop of the government
ponds alone will be over 100000 fish; and
the original are many Of them twenty-five
inches in length and weigh over twelve
pounds.
These are the figures of two experiments.
I am satisfied that hundred similar expert
ments made in hundred Georgia ponds
would bring the same results. Some of the
experiments would, of course, fall below these
figures, but to do one.tenth as we'll would be
to score a profit. I have seen Professor
Baird since wrote my last letter, and he
confirms the estimates of fish that he will be
able to furnish next year. / hazard nothing
in saying that he can furnish sufficient
stock for FIVE hundred ponds in Georgia next
summer. think he would agree with DR..
Cary, our excellent fish commissioner, to fur
nish fish for 1000 ponds if they were made
ready to receive them by next summer. Con-
gresham Blount called on him last week for
1000 carp, and l understand got them with.
out any trouble The fish will be forthcom-
ing if the ponds are already made ready.
There is no similar industry for which the
way can be paved with so little trouble and
expense-which can be maintained at such
small COST and produce such rich results.
Leaving out of question the market ques-
tion-promising that not single fish can be
sold-it would pay any farmer to establish
him pond. There is no healthier food than
6sh-none more savory or palatable. Our
farmers eat too much bacon and hog meat,
and "died of frying pan" has already been
written as the epitaph Of many pale'faced,
thin.blood pork eater. I doubt if there are
ten counties in Georgia in which a farmer
can 90 out and feel certain of catching q
mess" of fish, even by giving whole day to
the work, and riding seven miles to reach
water-unless he fishes in private ponds.
The fish have almost gone from our running
streams, and is scarce article in the bill Of
fare of our country houses. If carp ponds
buying of thousands of pounds annually OF
bacon, shall have thousands of more chickens
to send to market, more veal and mutton to
spare from the farms, every town and village
supplied with the fresh fsh at low price,
our farms made prettier and more pictur-
esque, and our people healthier, and better
fed. think the establishment of fifty carp
ponds will do Georgia more good than if we
had elected Hancock. had rather see
dozen established than to see Georgia gain
congressman in the apportionment, and that
is why have written more about fish than
politics. Politicians are usually fshy any
how, amt they? H. W. &.
We ALL HAVE FAULTs.-He who. boasts
of being perfect is perfect in folly. l. have
beer good deal up and down in the world,
and I never did see perfect horse or per-
feet man and I never shall till two Sundays
come together. You cannot get white -four
out of coal sack, nor perfection out Of hu.
man nature; he who looks for it had better
look for sugar in the sea. The old saying is
"lifeless, faultless." Of dead men we should
say nothing but good, but as for the living
they are all tarred, more or less, with the
black brush, and half an eye can see it. Ev-
cry head has a soft spot in it, and every heart
has its black drop. Every rose has its prick
les, and every day its night. Even the sun
shows spots, and the skies are darkened with
clouds Nobody is so wise but he has folly
enough to stock a stall in Vanity Fair. When
I could not see the FOOLS cap, have, never
theless, heard the bells jingle. As there is
no sunshine without some shadows, so is all
human good mixed up with more or less evil
even the poor law guardians have their little
failings and parish beadles are not wholly of
heavenly nature. The best wine has its lees.
All mems faults are not written oD their fore
heads, and it's quite as we'll they are not, or
hats would need wide brims; yet as sure as
eggs is eggs, faults of some sort nestle in eve
ry mans bosom. There's no telling when
mans sins may show themselves, for hares
pop cut of ditch when you are not looking
for them. A horse that is weak in the legs
may not stumble for mile or two, but it is in
him and the rider had better hold him up
well.--John Ploughman.
Gum ARAB1c.-The most familiar objects
about US are often the least understood, and
probably few pause to ask the question,
"Wbat is gum Arabic, and whence comes it Z"
In Morocco, about the middle Of November,
Chat is after the rainy season., a gummy
Juice exudes spontaneously from the trunk
and branches of the acacia. 1t gradually
thickens in the furrow down which it runs,
assumes the form of oval and round drops,
about the size of pigeons egg, of different
colors, as it comes from the red or white gum
tree. About the middle of December the
Mors onoomn an tho hor1ar of the forest