The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-08-18
BY SETH GREEN.

SAID TO feed upon vegetables, cook
ed and soaked corn, also bread
crumbs-anything they will cat
should be good bait to catch them
with. If they are accustomed to
being fed | should fish for them
with the same food / had been
feeding them on. 1t does not
make any particular difference
how near pond is to the house,
only for personal comfort in mos
quito time, as good carp pond
win breed large quantities of in
sects, and a good share of them
are liable to be mosquitoes. All
kinds of insects are good carp |
food. A simple way to make q
pond is with a plow and scraper.
1t should have a deep place in the
centre and be very shallow on the
sides, since il the sides are square
the young fish will have no pro-
lection against the old ones, for
an old carp has no conscientious
scruples against taking in one OF
its own progeny. When you com
mence scraping, take the earth as
far back as you intend making the
lower outside of the embankment.
Keep scraping until the pond is
from four to six feet deep in the
centre. If the pond is in local
ity where the ice freezes thick, it
should be deeper, aud holes must
be kept open through the ice du'
ring the winter to keep the fish
from smothering.
If the embanllment is nicely
rounded and pounded down, and
is sodded or sown to grass, the
water can be raised so you Will
not have to dig the pond but three
: feet in the center to get six feet
of water. The whole pond should
be seeded to some kind of grass
| or water plant, except a space OF
fifty to seventy-fve feet square in
the centre. The grass or water
plants make the spawning ground
4 breed food, and protect eyoung
!. |. If the grass gets too thick it cal
p be raksd out. The United States
+ Fish Commissioner, Professor Is
It Baird, at Washington, | believe
furnishes carp to all applicants il
season,
/ have had great many argu
!. ments in regard to fish's ears AM
= their hearing, and from very care
full observation aud numerous eS
|, periments tried, ] claim that the
RI have no ears and cannot hear.
N Many writer's about fish tell u
le to avoid all noises around thel
ponds, lest they frighten the fisl
n.
and to be particularly careful nc
to fire gun on the grounds, lei
IS the delicate ear of the fish shoul
be too much affected. Fish cal
not hear the sound of a bell, nc
J even a whistle, neither will the
stir one fraction Of an inch at II
sound of a gun fred one fo'
~ above their heads, but the sigl
,s of most fish, and especially tt
or trout family, is very keen. IL
or enemies are to be avoided by Il
- aid of his eyes, and they will sta
and run at every sudden motto
= whether it is the shadow OF Il
, !, angler or the falling of a leaf up
= the water. They are also starti
", bv concussion by blow upon {
water or q heavy step upon t
ground; but win mind no moi
:, that is not accompanied by sol
8 demonstration that he can eth
see or feel. The apgIer may =
as loud as he pleases, but he mt
approach the bank of the trc
brook ON tiptoe, and hide behi
bush OF tree. Fish are uudou
edly brought to the shore at !
time they are accustomed to bel
W fed by the ringing Of q bell, but
- is the motion. not the SOU
which attracts them. L the
ksr tendant vii stand ont Of sight light
q the. fish. he lhaylring q ldng Il
d. before they viii put IN On appe
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