Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-12
Champion BROAD Jumpers.

Both frogs are agile, champion broad
Jumpers and difficult of capture by an
excitabe person, who slaps and grabs.
stirring the frogs TO unbelieva bile GYM
nastic achievements: also working him
self into sad state of temper. When the
young pickerel frog has been exposed to
the light several hours there is no frog
that can compare to him In brilliant
metallic luster; covered from the end of
his arstocratically pointed nose TO his
toe tips with iridescent gold and shim-
mering bronze, he makes a very conspicu-
Gus object. one that bass can see from
a. distance and find it hard to resist.
Strange as it may seem, wheu confined
in a dark place for any length of time
the frogs lose their brilliant cooring
therefore I find it good idea to expose
the bait to the sun, being careful that
the heat does not overcome them to ward
against which | change the water fire.
quently.
The keeping OF frogs. of all live bait.
is somewhat difficult unless possessed of
running water and a large wire cage.
The latter can easily he made of window
screen If you are possessed of the for
mer. Lacking these conveniences. two
candy pals provided with screened COW
ers can be made to serve: the covers
should be removable, not hinged. We
will suppose that YOU are possessed of
two dozen froes-about the right num-
Der for a candy pail.
You place a bit of board six inches
square in the pail for a float and fill two
thirds full of water. Now dump in Your
frogs and cover quickly. and that is all
for the time. The water should he
changed twice a day, morning and even
ing, for the excreta soon roisons 1t and
kills the batrachians. To change the
water. drain off all but two or three
inches. then remove the float and dump
the gynnastic gentlemen into the second
pail. which you have partly filled with
water and have ready.
The dumping of the frogs from one pail
to the other seems to wash and invisor-
ate them. Another advantage of this
method of changing water is that the
half-tilled pail gives the frogs no foothol1
for an escaping leap little matter, you
will appreciate when a dozen frogs have
all leaped in as many directions at once
and you have fruitlessly paved the air.
Before returning the frogs to the hrst
pail, see that 1t is thoroughly rinsed with
its attendant float, and from time to time
Scald it with hot water.
Food for the Frogs.
AS to food. of course frogs feed upon
insects and larvae, food that 1t is some
what diff1cult to secure. If you do not
plan to keep your prisoners over a week
or ten days, they will get along without
condition which makes them so attractive
to fish, neither will they endure the cast
ing as they would if well fed: Chopped
meat. bread crumbs and handful of
rasshoppers-when you can get them
will please your charges: but do not
overfeed so that decaying food will be
found in the pail. I must add that I
have found 1t impossible to keep the first
mentioned brown and gray frogs grass
toads) with any other species: why. 1
am not enough of naturalist to explain.
They should he kept in a separate pail.
In transporting frogs to the fishing
grounds there is nothing better than the
ordinary double minnow pail. The inner
pail can be lifted from the water. and 1t
is easier to get hold of a frog. though
one must be careful that two or three
do not escape in the operation. The in
ner pail also makes it easy to change the
water. an important matter when the
day Is hot. If going light" or where
it is difficult to carry pail a cloth sack