The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-19
SHRIMP FARM NEW INDUSTRY Savannah Man Has
 Unique Plan. POPULAR WITH CITY MEN Gives Them Good Sport on Worst
 Days. Georgian win Cultivate old Farm Under Five Feet of Water
 First of Kind in

it seems likely will have Its beginning at Isle of Hope, says The Savannah News.
 It is an infant industry, all right, for so far as is known 1t has never been attempted anywhere else. Capt. J. F. Hallman Is the originator of the idea, and proposes to make an experiment on a large scale along this line dur ing the winter.
 The idea first occurred to him when in the course of his boat business his attention was attracted to the trou- ble of the city business man who gets off for a days fishing in the winter, and then discovers that because 1t Is cold the shrimp are all down in the mud and he can't get any for bait at any price. So to alleviate the mental anguish of such business men in such predicaments. and incidentally to make something out of 1t for himself, Capt Hallman proposes to give the plan "a thorough test.
 His first efforts were made last winter and proved successful beyond his fondest hopes. But he had start ed too late in the season, when the shrimp had already stretched out in theire mud for the cold weather. and so he couldn't get enough to stock much of farm.
 Farm Under Five Feet of Water.
 Capt. HalIman fenced off a portion of the bottom of the river near his wharf where the water was about five feet deep at low tide and covered the bot tom under the mud with fine mesh wire netting. The shrimp were placed in this inclosure and so could be scoop ed out of the mud with net when wanted.
 The demand was heavy from the start. In the winter few shrimp appear where you can reach them with net except on the very warmest days. but those who are fond of a day off with rod and reel soon got onto the farm racket. The shrimp sold rapidly at a fancy price. All of the stock in the farm were soon exhausted.
 Capt. Holman hasn't started his farm yet, but he has a month or two before the shrimp begin to disappear into the mud. He has been laying his plans and proposes soon to fence of a god-sized strip of bottom close insnore in front of his property with a wire mesh net. With this heavily stocked with shrimp it will be no task on the coIdest day to scoop up sufficient number for asmess of bait ma Few minutes. k,s 4s, sesCi
 For uniqueness sthe shrimp farm might prove a counter attraction to the famous Barbee terrapin crawls were 1t not for the fact that the shrimp remains beneath the mud This leaves nothing but the sight of the mud bot tom for thS tourists eye. Capt Hall man doesn't anticipate that 1t will become one of the noted sights of the Isle of Hope for this reason.
 Affords Best Food.
 The captain has lived around the water nearly all his life. and conse- quently knows a thing or two about shrimp, terrapin. and all things that live in the water. And by his little preliminary experiment of last winter he has made some discoveries regard ing the habits of the little crustac- ceans.
 He has discovered that they thrive on cornmeal or on cracker crumbs. If a sack of either is thrown into the water where they are kept they will soon get out of the mud and will be all over the sack, absorbing the proper ties of the food through the cloth. Ills practice is to scatter the meal over the mud in the bottom. They find the par ticles easily. He has never attempted to teach them to eat from persons hand. but he considers them quite tame It is commonly supposed that shrimp can get enough food out of the water with the changing of the tides. But capt Hallman has found that they thrive much better when allowed plenty oi ordinary food.
 First Farm of The Sort.
 NaturaIists call sin rimp of the spe- cies found here Crandos vulgaris, SC technically 1t would be a Crandos vul- saris farm. After due consideration Capt Hallman has. however. decided to drop the higher-sounding name and let it go as simply a shrimp farm. The shrimp themselves refuse to notice the long name conferred upon them by the naturalist fraternity, and pay no at- tention whatever when called by it.
 Capt Hallman's experiment proved successful last winter and If the more extensive experiment planned for this winter pans out as we'll he will make a speciality of the business gradually enlarging the size of his farm as the business builds up. So 1t seems qRite certain that Isle of Hope Is to have the distinction of having the first real shrtnnD farm in the world.