Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-08-04
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From book entitled Home Fishing
and Home Waters" and written by that
excellent authority on fish culture, the
Hon. Seth Green, we take the follow
ing paragraphs on the subject of carp
culture:
To construct q pond, first stake out
your land the desired dimensions; then
take pillow and scraper, and with them
make the necessary excavation. The
pond should be about five or six feet
deep in the center, gradually sioping
up to the edges. The object in having
the pond deep in the center is to pro-
vide the fish with q place to settle dur
ing the winter, without danger of the
water freezing solid and thereby killing
them, as would be the case in cold eli
mates If the water was all shallow. The
reason for having the bottom sloping is,
that thereby the fish may have access
to plenty of warm, shoal water, and also,
that in case the old fish are not taken
out after spawning, the young will have
the protection of the shallow water
along the edges, into which the larger
fish cannot swim if they should feel in
clined to make q meal on some of their
younger relatives.
The outlet should be about three feet
wide, and so constructed that it can
be well screened to prevent the fish from
escaping, and so as to admit of the
water being drawn off when it is de-
sired to remove the fish or to cleanse
the pond. The screens may be made of
wire netting, and painted with gas-tar
mixed with one-third turpentine, or to
the consistency of paint, and applied
with an ordinary paint-brush. The wire
netting should be tackled to strong
wooden frames, made to fit the space to
be screened. To screen carp pond
efectually, three screens of different
meshes should be used. These should
slide in a grooved frame work, so that
they can be taken out easily and
cleansed. The coarser screen should
be placed first, or nearest to the pond,
so as to catch the principal part of the
drifting matter, and prevent the clogging
of the lower and finer screens. About
eighteen inches back of the screens the
outlet boards should be placed, fitted
to slide in groove. They should be
about six inches wide each, and made
to fit closely, as it is by these that the
overflow is regulated.
It is advisable to have the top boards
narrower than the lower ones, so that
the water may be raised or lowered to
any level desired. If galvanized wire -
which is the best, although more ex-
pensive-is used for screens, it need
not be painted with gas-tar. For pond
containing large carp only, the outlet
screen may be made of states about
three inches wide, with half-inch open
ings between the Stats. If a leaf strikes
against Stats of this width it will pass
between them without obstructing the
flow of water, as it cannot lap around
them, as it would do if the Stats were
smaller. In all cases the screens
should extend nearly to the bottom of
the pond, so as to present as great q
surface as possible.
Carp can be raised in well water, but
water from brook is preferable. They
will succeed in the Northern States, if
the ponds are deep enough not to freeze
to the bottom in winter. Carp do not
require feeding in winter, as they bur-
row into the mud or hibernate, until the
ice disappears in the spring.