THE CULTURE OF CARP.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2071, 15 October 1885, Page 3

THE CULTURE OF CARP.

Tiil niteiesting lnfoiin itiou conveyed in tin; follow mglettri which appealed in the Melbourne Lradei ovei the signative " If. Nave.ni, ' will apply in gre.it measuie to this colony, We commend it to the thoughtful eon>ulei.itiou of our 1 cadets . — Su,— lt appears to me th.it among the many different lnduslnes which arc tieated in your valuable paper one subject— and that a \eiy lmpoicant one — is wanting, nanirly, fr-li. Melbourne mtiy bo well supplied with fiosli finl) every day in the, yeai, but the Mnallfn tovvin and hamlets seldom taste any. Then 1 is not a coimliv m the woild moio suitable to the cultuie of fiesh water hsh than Yictoiia. How plr.iso-ut is it, wlien pel haps tlioro is a scai city of meat, when you may go to the. pond and lake out a cu p. 1 wondei how it is that there are no carp ponds in Victoria. In (Jemiany and in Aincnca, as has? been hliovvu by your special rej«oitei, e\eiy one almost nowadays le.irs his own caip. They ate easily kept. They do not need tunning streams. A dam m any paddock, providing their air no sheep in it, will do for carp splendidly. As the cai p eats almost cvei> thing, but chielly veget able food, it is will to h\\v a cup pond in connection with e\ eiy maiketgai den. They thuvo well on waste of eveiy kind of vegetable, as cabbage leave*, tuumjs and mangeh, &c. ; but to do well they_ must be served like any other domestic animal, that is, they must be legulaily fed twice a day, and dtu ing spawning time three times. They get by proper attendance so tame that they may be taken up out of the water. In Belgium people keep them after they are taken out of the pond in baskets in wet moss and fatten them by feeding them on bie.id soaked in milk. Few people know how piolitaUe they are. If one were to .stait a pond on .1 small scale, say about 120 feet long by HO feet wide, and 5 feet at the dei'j-est place, and put in two females and one male of I inches long, there would be no inciease the first year, but they would glow to !) inches. The second jear they would glow to about 1 foot longer, and the thud >ear they would be above 2 feet IJ inches long, weighing from 12 to 141bs. each, and there would be in all probability an incieaso of 1500 joung ones. The cup docs not do well m a hole sunk m the giound, but in a pond on the side of a valley where the deepest part is formed by a b ink of made up soil, in which allsoits of watei plants thiivc, theygeton well. It must be s«o constructed that the watei may be lot off onco a year, with wire netting fi\cd in tho pipe to prevent the small fish from escaping. It is not necessary to ha\ c tho pond m tho centre of a gully, nay, it is not good, for a flood might destroy the work ot yoars, but it is best if it can Ik> so constmcted that a stream may bo lot in sideways. It is delightful to watth tho cup, how they put their heads above tho water and feed olf the herbage at the lnnk as clean as the sheep. T am quite coit.uu if this thing were oner f.uily staited, many would see the good of it .md do likewise ; and as to spoit, when you tan pull up a carp from 10 to 1 Hbs wi ight, is it not better than to catch a blackhsh .'

flo\s K\Ts Stku, Ki.os.-Mr S. Jennings, of Dunin.uk Hill, writes to the Tniios: — "I can explain how tlio i.its remove the eggs w itliout breaking them, as that feat wai accomplished under the observation of .1 ftiend of mine, who related the same to me My friend was in the habit of placing In.s new laid eggs in the tea-caddy along with tlie tea, hut night after night they we 10 mystciiously removed, and veiy naturally the servants got the blame. One night, however, my Fiicud was, reading at a latu hour, when he heaid the scullling of rats ascending the sideboard on w Inch was the tea tadd^ containing eggs. The thought instantly flashed aeioss hn mind tli.it he h.id been perhaps unjustly se\eiu towaiels Ins servants, and silently he watched the proceedings. It was a .simple matter to remove the lid. Two or three ..its descended into the tea caddy, some remained on the top, and in a minute the mystery was .sohed. Oue»i.it clamping the egg was being hauled along by his companions, gently lifted and lowered to the floor, whence on his back, and still clasp ing the egg, they succeeded in safely c.urying it away ; and the whole of them weie removed without breaking one." Another conespondent of the Times says :— " One rat tikes an egg in his paws and clasps it to his breast, tin owing himself on his back. Another lat seizes the tail of the first one, and draws him sledgelikf* alonrj. " 11km I U rolls — "When .1 bo ml of eminent plijsiri.ins and chemists .inmiiim id the d s nurj th.it b) Lombining sonic well-known \.iluable remedies .1 most wonderful medium was produred, w'huh would curi'such a wiueriiiKe ot disi ases tliat most all other remedies could be dispensed with, m inj ucre skiptx •>!, but proof of its merits by attu il tn.il Il.il dispelled .iH doubt, .mel to d ly the disi o\crers e>f (hit uri.U medicine, I)r soulu b Anioru.in Go's Hop 15itters, arc honouud .md ble^sud by all as bencfar tors " He id