The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-06

One Of the new industries in which
our enterprising townsmen are entering
upon, is the raising Of the Carp Fish fol
market The City Council have partly
stocked pond, and tBo or three citizens
have put in limited number of this eel
ebrated Fish in small ponds. We learn
with pleasure, that our fellow citizen, Mr.
John w. Wood, (for thrt' nine years
with Messrs. Cox & Markley. has built
and filled two extensive lreeding ponds
near town with the genuine German full
scale Carp. We haze heard from time to
time some particulars, but it is from the
columns of the Atlanta Constitution we
get our fullest information. Their spe-
cial went down TO sec Mr. Wright in Grif-
fin, the person who supplied Mr. Wood,
and he gave the following:
When did your breeding fish begin 10
spawn? asked.
Las, April, was unable to see the eggs
but being firm in my Lclief that they
would spawn that month, had kept a
constant watch, and one morning was
rewarded for seeing thousands Of tiny lit
tie fellows not as long as ones finger nail
swarming along the banks in the shallow
est water.
Did they grow fast?
Well, you could almost see them gov.
In three weeks they were over an inch
long, and in two months or less, had
commenced to ship them from two TO four
inches in length. The ones that first
hatched are now seven, eight nine inches
long, bu, here's letter from Mr.. J. W.
Wood, Of Greenville, S. c., which shows
that fish shipped him last June from
the same spawning have ou,grown mine
great deal.
/ took the letter and found it dated
November 10Th, 1881. Mr.. Wood says
the Carp procured of Mr.. Wright, five
and half months ago, then very small,
are now from fourteen TO sixteen inches
in length, and that another lot received
July 18th, are twelve inches long. This
would seem to argue, said Mr. Wright,
that the fish thrive better when removed
from the fostering care Of their mothers
and fathers. Perhaps there's truth in
this, but cannot say. Mr.. Wood feeds
his carp we'll, and that may have some
thing to do with it.
What do Carp thrive best on?
feed mine on stale bread and crackers
mostly, with occasional bits OF beef liver,
but they like almost anything. They will
cat anything that hog will eat. Their
peDse, when it is necessary to feed them
at all. 1t is not always necessary, but do
it rs much as matter of personal satisfac-
subsist on fungus or any kind Of vegetable
matter that may happen to be growing
or is placed in the water. | have filed
my pond with water lilies and lined the
banks with all kind Of grasses, SO that
they never go begging for something to eat
guess Dir. Wood must give his plenty
of liver to make them grow 40 rapidly.
Have you shipped many Of you- fish
Yes, indeed altogether, hav, sold
over five thousand at twenty dollars per
hundred. l have sent them into five
States already.
b1r. Wright explained that Of the third
we'll known kinds of Carp, namely,
Leather, Mirror and Scale carp, the latter
is the truly valuable kind. The reporter
had one fine fellow served up in an At
lanta restaurant, and found the flavor
something like shad, and every way g fine
table luxury. ii il very free from bones,
too.
Mr. Wood has been in correspondence
with our representative in Congress, Col.
Evins, and the Hon. Spencer i. Baird,
our United States Fish Commissioner.
Col. Baird's last letter is dated JAN l4th,
and reads:
Mr.. John w. Wood, Greenvlle: Dear
Sir-Your letter Of the 1lth has been re.
ceived, and 1 am glad to learn Of the
successful growth of the Carp which you
purchased in May last in Georgia. I
would like very much to have yon send
me on fish. Would suggest that if
wrapped up in wet moss, soon ns taken
from the water, and shipped by express
to the Smithsonian Institute, it may ar-
rive alive. have been obliged TO sus-
pend the distribution of Carp, before
sending an additional supply to Col. But
Ter of South Carolina. We are not dis
tribatng at this time any other fish suit
able Tor ponds in your latitude.
Yours truly,
SPENCER F. BAIRD