Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1901 — A Frog Story. [ARTICLE]

A Frog Story.

| A writer of the Wanatah Mirror says the number of frogs caught 'on the Kankakee marsh duriug the winter months is enormons, j amounting to hundreds of thousands. One summer two men captnred between 120,000 and 124,000 j dozen, which they shipped to Chi- ! cago receiving an average of nine ! cents a dozen for them. The writer concluding says he knows of one German family in particular ! that were in close circumstances financially. The mortgage on their little home was Jfast closing upon them, aud they were unable even by working night and day jto meet there obligations. When 1 the Chicago frog market opened, they let there farm and marsh hay go and went to catching frogs and the result is to-day that they have hundreds of acrea of that ; noted marsh land and all free from debt and they simply got it by catching frogs. It is not an uncommon thing in the winter for two men to go out and catch iin one day to net them the neat sum of sls to S2O.