FROG FARM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1938, Page 2

FROG FARM

AMERICAN CLOWN’S PLANS. English people do not eat frogs. But they may be doing so very soon, if Joe Jackson, famous American clown, gets his frog farm going. Joe, who is appearing in a London cabaret, has a frog farm in New York and he is thinking of starting one in England. He thought it would be a good idea to open a restaurant with a sign outside, “Here you eat frogs only.” “I prefer frogs to any other dish,” said Joe this week. “My family and I eat them nearly every day when they are in season. They are not the small frogs you have in England —my frogs weigh 31b. Of course, English people do not like them. When I ask my English friends if they eat frogs they say, ‘No, we leave that to the Frenchmen.’ ” Joe first got the idea of running a frog farm when he was doing his clowning' act in Texas. Now he owns ten thousand frogs —all croaking on his New York farm. “A frog lays ten thousand eggs,” he explained. “You can rear eight thousand of them if you take good care the mother and father do not eat them.” In France, land of frog epicures, Joe is regarded as the leading authority on frogs. “At first they thought I was being funny when I said I would teach them the best way to rear frogs,” Joe said. “But they listened to me—and then paid me compliments.”