The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-25
NEWS OF THE FARMING WORLD.

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Progress is Being Made in the Various
Sections in the Country.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
The Fish Commission sees no
reason why a farmer should not raise
his own fish as we'll as his own chick
ems or pork, and believes that the
cultivation of fish for market in the
interior will soon become a fixed and
profitable industry.
FISH FARMING IS POSSIBLE
wherever there is a pond or stream,
and the Government Fish Commits
sion will furnish a good supply to
start with. Fish ponds can be
created in villages and even cities
wherever there is running water,
and the Commissioner believes it to
be practicable for every housewife
to raise her own fish. 1t does not
require large area, although a fish
must have a certain number of cubic
feet of water, just as human being
must have a sufficient amount of air
for sustenance, but this is easily
regulated. He claims that it is no
more difficult to raise fish than it is
to raise melons or strawberries, and
that the farmer must use only the
same care and attention that he ap-
plies to wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco,
chicken or pork.
The construction of fresh water
fish pond involves only a little dig
ging, the erection of wire screens to
prevent the fish from escaping and
supply of vegetable and animal life
to furnish the fish with food. 1t is
scarcely practicable to furnish fish
with artificial food, and plant life is
much more desirable. After the
pond has been made and stocked
with the right varieties of fish it
will require about the same amount
of care and attention as a strawberry
patch or an onion bed. 1t is, of
course, much better TO utilize a run
ming stream wherever possible, and
this can be done by arranging wire
nets with fine meshes to prevent the
fish from escaping. In the cold,
clear waters of the North trout,
bass, perch and other varieties will
thrive, and the Fish Commissioner
at Washington is always glad to
stock private fish ponds and furnish
instructions for farming them. Sue
cess has been attained at many places
in the country.
Most farmers will be surprised to
learn that in spite of our enormous
export of wheat, we are compelled to
import hundreds of thousands Of
bushels of it
FOR USE IN MAKING MACARONI.
For this wheat we pay d higher
price than we get for our wheat
abroad. We mix it with our own
wheat, thus producing an inferior
quality of macaroni and also import
Is, 100000 pounds of what is useful
food. Professor NJ. A. Carleton, the
wheat expert of the Department of
Agriculture, says that macaroni
wheat can be grown with great profit
in many of the Western States,
especially Texas and other South
western States. 1t is one of the best
drought resisting wheats known,
and can be grown in localities where
the rainfall does not exceed ten
inches annually. For this reason il
should prove especially valuable in
Texas. Experiments already made
there have been very encouraging.
With the object of encouraging the
growth of the wheat, the Depart
ment of Agriculture has instructed
it's agricultural explorer, Prof. D. G.
Fairchild, who is now travelling in
Algeria, to procure several hundred
bushels of the Algerian macaroni
wheat, which will be shipped to the
Department and distributed in the
arid and semi i-arid regions of the
West. A B. MARRIOTT.
Washington, D. g.
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