The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-03
WATER FARMING.
here L. Profit in Raising Fish and Frog,

here Is Profit in Raising Fish and Frogs
For market.
It has not been many years since
Fater farming was added TO the posi-
|ilities of agriculture" in Ind ana. It
logan as divers. on. 1t has become a
BUSINESS. Enough time has now
lapsed TO demonstrate that water
hrming may be made practicable and
rofitable-at least as profitable as some
ther rural occupation, and more en-
lie ng than the ord nary life Of an agri-
ultur St AS much money can be made
y an acre of water as off an acre of
and. including well-located fish and
Fog ponds on the one hand and ordinary
arm ng on the other.
One of the p oneers in water farming
a Indiana is Mr.. Joseph Manlove, Of
Milton. Seven years ago he bought a
mall piece of low land lying between
he VIII te Water Canal and White
Mater (riverl. He determined to food
he lowland and to add to his posses
ions the ad ming high land for park
purposes His place now includes four
cen acres of water and twenty-one Of
and. I'll business is largely with the
bater and only incidentally with the
ry land. III first purpose was to
9tablish a carp pond, from which the
sh market might be supplied This
Fas accomplished in two years with
Comparative ease. Now he has prac-'
fcally an uni mited quantity of this
ariety of fish. However, the public
hste also calls for bass, and Manlove
determined to add this variety to his
npply. His lake is now stocked with
vast supply of b ack bass. They have
rown finely, and next year bass-fishing
Till be put on the market" Bass
romise so much better than carp that
Farmer" Manlove uses his young carp
3 food for his bass.
Still another department" has been
dded to the farm" this season-frogs.
four acres of shallow water, well grown
q flags. were set apart as breeding
lace for frogs. They breed and grow
hpid!y. -Four thousand tadpoles were
ut in tn breeding pen early in the
peing. Many of them are now of
Marketable size. Next season they will
be giants-big ten nch long ''culti-
ated" bull frogs, worth $3.50 and So
ozen-not the little marsh frogs. but
he b g fellows with Herr Fischer voic s
(n catching them for market a light at
light is used. They stare at the light
nd can be caught and handled with
ase in its glare. In catching large
uantities of carp the lake is drained
f. In winter the marketable fish are
fept in small ponds.
1t is interesting to observe the water
|armer at his work. He can use horse
klow, planter nor reaper. Suppose he
as gone out to feed. He has with him
hiddlings or some other grain He goes
% the breeding pond, sounds gong or
flows whistle and thousands of frogs
8me hopping from their shelter They
at the Toou ravvuUuoly ~..d Leovl.o
anne that the farmer handles them as a
Foman does her pet chickens. The
anne food is just the thing for young
md old carp. Fish and frogs take to
Frain and grain products" said Mr..
Aanlove. like a boy takes to apple
tumpIing. Part of the season it is not
Necessary to feed my stock at all. The
kater-grass seeds make the finest of
|ood for the fish, and at this time Of the
bear I rarely prepare fish for the table
that do not find him filed with grass
DEEDS "-Indianapolis News
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