Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1913 — FROG HARVEST IN MILROY TOWNSHIP [ARTICLE]

FROG HARVEST IN MILROY TOWNSHIP

Farmers Find It Profitable to Gather Jumpers—Many Shipped From Rensselaer. N. E. Dignon and Geo. E. Caster, of Milroy township, brought four boxes of live frogs to Rensselaer today and shipped them to Chicago by express. They estimated that there are about 125 dozen frogs in the four boxes and they expect to receive from 15 to 22 cents a dozen for them. The frogs were mostly caught in the day time, but Mr. Caster states that they can best be caught at night. He counted a dozen or more lanterns Tuesday evening and each lantern was being carried by a frog catcher. The frogs generally are found in small clusters of four to six at night and blinded by the lanterns they arc easily captured? The frog catcher puts on a pair of rubber boots, takes a lantern intone hand and the other is free to grab the frogs. Often at night four or’ five are caught at a time. The frogs that are caught are the small grass frogs. The bullfrogs are not found very often. They are worth $2.20 a dozen. The frogs kept up such a mournful sound at the express office that, Manager Timmons found it necessary to take them out of the office. He said that a few hours in confinement with four boxes of live frogs would set any person crazy. Mr. Caster stated that he believes some persons caught as many as 100 dozen frogs Tuesday night. They usually shipped them from Lee and the Dignon & Caster shipment is the only one that has been sent from Rensselaer. \