Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1912 — PUT END TO FROG-FARMING [ARTICLE]

PUT END TO FROG-FARMING

Audubon's Scheme Might Have Been Good but for One Small, Unforeseen Incident. There is an amusing story told in connection with the first veiiture in frog-farming ever made in the United States. Early in the last century Audubon, the great ornithologist, went down the Ohio river from Pennsylvania in a little' steamer of his own, stopping at various points to obtain specimens of little-known birds. While at Hendersonville, Kentucky, which he made his home for some time, he built a mill and proposed to raise frogs on a large scale, preparing for that purpose a pond near the river. The frogs multiplied wonderfully, and on warm summer evenings it was the practice of Audubon to sit under a tree near the pond, listening to the concert given by his stock, and calculating the amount of money he should derive from the sale of the grown frags. But one night, when, the frogs were nearly grown, they heard the booming of bullfrogs In the Ohio. Their curiosity was aroused, and hopping oat of the pond, they made their way to the river, into which they plunged and disappeared!