The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-15
RECORD IS UNIQUE:
Total Number Of Frog Legs Con-
sumed in Detroit Is Immense.

supply Comes From Professional
Hunters In Michigan and Other
States and Those Who Raise
Them for the Table.
Detroit, Mich.-A tour of the COM:
mission houses who handle frog legs;
at wholesale and of the restaurants,
who deal them out rolled in cracker
crumbs with a dab of tartar sauce on
the side reveals the fact that Detroit
ers are the largest consumers Of frogs'i
legs in the United States, and that
Paris would probably be far down on
the list if complete statistics were
available. !,
Twelve and a half tons Of frog legs
were eaten in this city and immediate,
vicinity in the past year. Those well;
acquainted with the frog, alive and!
dead, estimate his legs at about one-i
fourth of the weight of his entire!
body. -Four times 12h is 50, is it not?;
Now, a composite frog made up of
all the frogs who contribute their legs
to the delectation of local gourmetsi
would be some frog. yes?
Or If all the frogs that died in the
last year on the altar of Epicurus tot
supply legs to Detroit and the road
houses adjacent thereto were to bel
resurrected there would be 6,000,000
of them, and were they to hop in al
mob on the city hall Police Commits!
sioner Croul's mounted men would
have their troubles dispensing the coldI
green horde.
Now, just suppose they were all to;
return to this earth and emit their
various croaks and peepings. They
could easily keep awake all who have
been in any way responsible for their
slaughter.
Frog legs have been known to the
French as a delicacy of surprising
sweetness for many years, and it may
be that Detroit, being a city Of French
descent, has inherited a tooth for
frogs. st. Louis, which claims second
place al the city where frog legs are,
popular, gets away with 100000.
The market is kept supplied with,
frogs by the activity of professional
hunters in Michigan and the southern
states, and by those who raise frogs
for the table. A lake near Lulu. Mich,
is the birthplace of $4,000 dozen a
year. The sole care of the proprietors
Of this frog ranch is to keep 1t from
being the mecca for all the black
snakes, hawks, owls, raccoons, skunks,
mink and stray cats in the lower
p%eninsulas.
A mother frog lays between 1894
and 5,327 eggs at a time, perhaps a
few NOR or less.
Some frog fanciers go out and dip
up the baby frogs and fatten them in
their own door yards. The hunters
pounce on the little meadow frogs as
they leap %innocently through the
marsh hay or creep up or the below
ing bullfrogs, dazzling them with
search lights as they sit on a sunken
log and boom the noon.
There are frogs of such proportions
that they can be dressed like chick
ems, not only the saddles but the fore
quarters and back being available. But
the flesh of these giants is not es.
teemed by the cognoscenti. A 1.-THE,
tender young meadow frog is said to
have the sweetest lower limbs of all.
| Here and there on the outskirts of
civilization are persons who would
as gladly eat turkey buzzard as frog
They are poor, ignorant natives who
need the home missionary efforts OF
Sauna ~ooS ohoP ~ ooruorf Thorn IN the
proper way of thinking.
City dwellers who steer delicately
shy of frog legs profess to do SO or
sentimental grounds.
cute sparkling eyes-it seems a shame
to destroy their happy, care-free lives
remarked one young woman, tears
welling in her lustrous eyes.
Have cheer, fair one! A frog is the
meanest, greediest, most vicious ami
NAL that hops, walks. crawls, flies o
ewfms. bangle a hook with a bit O
red flannel attached in front Of a frot
and he will probably stuff it down hi
throat with his front feet. Give hin
his liberty and repeat the experiment
and he will continue to grab the hoo1
as long as he has any mouth left t
grab with. That's how greedy he is.
Capture a large frog of trust mag
nate appearance and cut into his tum
my. Here will be found the remain
Of small frogs, dear little fish, prett,
moths and ven q small Harmless
snake now and then.
Among the active enemies of tn
frog is the man who uses him for fs!
bait. He fastens a kicking frog to
bass hook and then f1ips him careless
~ through the air, smacking hir
against the water and pulling him !
again until a fish snatches him an
the hook or the poor frog tires and r.
fuses to kick any more. This Is yer
trying to a frog, especially on a he
day. But what annoys the true lover
Of frog legs Is that the frog, ono
used, Is tossed away to be gobbled u
In his WORKOUT condition by some m
rine foe. A movement Is afoot to con
pel the substitution Of rubber frogs !