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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife419181919baus (find matches)
Year: 1918-1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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118 •aquatic ILiiz pleted the ensemble. One morning I was startled to hear a shout from my little son, "Mother! Come see the funny little things in the water. They look like fish." And, sure enough, there were hundreds of baby goldfish. Let me say, for the benefit of the inex- perienced, that I had never before seen a young goldfish. In planning the life for the pond I had endeavored to repro- duce natural conditions. The result was a rank growth of submerged plants, lilies other ills and natural enemies, but there is not a sick fish among the hundreds I have at present. The secret is to simulate nature. The same principles have been applied to a larger pool, fifty feet long and four feet wide, constructed when the original pool became too small to handle the number of fishes needed. They were looking at the kangaroo at the "zoo," says the Boston Transcript, when an Irishman asked his neighbor in
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The Author's Garden Pool and cat-tails, among which the young fish had hidden and found protection. The babies were all of six weeks old, and had subsisted entirely on the foods naturally found in the water. About four hundred were successfully reared. That was the beginning of four suc- cessful years. A market was found and the demand now exceeds the supply. But this has not been without ups and downs, for I have battled congestion, fungus and the group: "Beg pardon, sor; can you tell me phwat kind of a crature is that?" "That," said the man, "is a native of Australia." "Good hivins!" exclaimed Pat. "And me sister Julia married wan o' thim."— The Youths' Companion. Those who boast that they never take water may find themselves between the devil and the deep sea.

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