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Show I Mi Iarm, Ainoog the live abxk farms lbt are CArrieil on with j roflt nnd j leainro why tlioullwe not Include water farms for tho ralMnaof finny llru ntock? It Is a mutter w kkh few ha e thou(,lit of sufll-chnt sufll-chnt Importance torptn 1 time orr, yet eery farmer In tho land init,ht hae his own (Uh ouU anl rcallxe a, troflt from tin m. Inthonaoof two kinds of food that are among tho mot lunltliful and nour Uli It ff tho raco can utlllxo tho Auicrl cans are nway hehlud. Tlieso are flali an I frulL It has ht-cn calculate! that ono acre of ground will maintain for i year a hot f animal we)hlntf COO poundst hut au ncroof water will In tbosame timo produce 10,000 pounds of food In tho fonn of oysters and not to linpovcr ffhinl lu tho eHgliteit, while tho land Krownlwn) jwrcr lu tho manner In which it Is usually cultivated Tho cultivation of fUli food Is not yet een In Its Infancy in this country. H has not been Ix-guti, except by n few enthualaats who are trying to turn public pub-lic attention to the Immenao iOMIbUilei of water farming In America. Tho Chi nee are far iiiough ahead of America and of 1-urope in flah culture, as well thiyneod to bo to supimrt thm hun dnd millions of peoplo on a territory nmrly u million tujuare mil. -a has in extent than the area of the United Butts. If tho Chinese hal America every little lake and stream would be teeming with fliJi food, and on the shore woull Lorut goo! and duck ralalng itabllshments Noj It Is certain wo are b. htn I the Clilnew In the civlIfution width cncslit lu knowing how to farm tho wnters. |
