Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-05
WATER EARNING.
There Ii Profit in Raising Fish and Frog



There La Profit in Raising Fish and Frogs
For Market.
1t has not been many years since
water farming was added to the posi-
bilities of ''agriculture' in Indiana. 1t
began as diversion. 1t has become a
business Enough time has now
elapsed to demonstrate that water
farming may be made practicable and
profitable-at least as profitabl as some
other rural occupation, and more en-
ticing than the ordinary life of an agri-
culturist As much money can be made
land, including well-located fish and
frog ponds on the one hand and ordinary
farming on the other.
One of the pioneers in water farming
in Indiana is Mr.. Joseph Manlove, of
Milton. Seven years ago he bought a
small piece of low land lying between
the White Water Canal and White
Water (river). He determined to food
the lowland and to add to his posses
sions the ad Joining high land for park
purposes His place now includes four
teen acres of water and twenty-one of
land His business is largely with the
water and only incidentally with the
dry land. His first purpose was to
establish carp pond, from which the
fish market might be supplied. This
was accomplished in two years with
comparative ease. Now he has prac-
tically an unlimited quantity of this
variety of fish. However, the public
taste also calls for bass, and Manlove
determined to add this variety to his
supply. His lake is now stocked with
vast supply of black bass. They have
grown finely. and next year bass-f1shing
will be put on the market" Bass
promise so much better than carp that
Farmer" Manlove uses his young carp
as food for his bass.
Still another department" has been
added to the "farm" this season-frogs
-Four acres of shallow water, we'll grown
In flags, were set apart as breeding
place for frogs. They breed and grow
rapidly. Four thousand tadpoles were
put in this breeding pen early in the
spring. Many of them are now of a
marketable size. Next season they will
be giants-big ten-inch long cult
waited" bull frogs, worth 81. so and So a
dozen-Hot the little marsh frogs. but
the big fellows with Herr Fischer voicos
In catching them for market light at
night is used. They stare at the light
and can be caught and handled with
ease in its glare. In catching large
quantities of carp the lake is drained
of. In winter the marketable fish are
kept in small ponds.
1t is interesting to observe the water
farmer at his work. He can use horse
for side purposes, but he needs neither
pillow, planter nor reaper. Suppose he
has gone out to feed He has with him
middlings or some other grain. He goes
to the breeding pond, sounds a gong or
blows a whistle and thousands of frogs
come hopping from their shelter. They
| eat the food ravenously and become so
tame that the farmer handles them as a
woman does her pet chickens. The
same food is just the thing for young
and old carp Fish and frogs take to
grain and grain products" said Mr..
Manlove, like a boy takes to apple
dumping. Part Of the season 1t is not
necessary to feed my stock at all. The
water-grass seeds make the finest of
food for the fish, and at this time of the
year I rarely prepare fish for the table
that do not find him filled with grass
seeds. indianapolis News
-DUaruTng-nouse inmates soon learn
to appreciate tender meat, and will
eagerly seek the place where it is fire..
quently served. A Chicago man hit
upon an ingenious plan to secure a
clearinghouse where eating would be.
come pleasure instead of tiresome,
teeth-grinding exercise He asked a
butcher to direct him to the house where
| he sold the best meat The butcher
cheerfully did SO, and the man was soon
| thereafter Installed in a boarding
house where the delicacies of the table
are good and plentiful.
"A bolt of lightning in Kansas town
recently struck house and set it on
Are, and at the same time touched of
the FIRE alarm.
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