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Show Minnow Farm Shows a Good Profit ARDMORE, Okla. J. D. Ray of Ardmore is one ol the most unique farmers in Die midwest. He's making a full-time business of minnow farming on a 20-acre tract near Ardmore. Ray has three minnow ponds 6 feet deep, 100 feet long, and 74 feet wide. He estimates that each pond produces 600.000 minnows, each worth a cent wholesale to bait dealers. That means a gross income of $1?,000 annually. He sells his minnows to visitors at Lake Murray which draws approximately ap-proximately 2,000,000 fishermen each year. He thinks the business busi-ness should be good almost anywhere any-where in the ration. He says the minnows spawn eight times a year and have a mortality rate of less than 2 per cent. |