Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1912 — A Garden Pond. [ARTICLE]

A Garden Pond.

A garden pond is sometimes a thing of beauty and is certainly a thing of joy to the birds all summer long, but it brings the mosquitoes. A dozen gold fish placed in the water will take care of most of the mosquitoes, and they will'add to the attractiveness of the pond. A border of wefl selected stones next to the water and just outside of them a few aquatic plants, will also help. Very often frogs are attracted to these little ponds and will help the fish take care of the mosquitoes, and sometimes they become quite tame and make their winter bed in the mud, and are ready to greet us in the spring with their songs—if you like to call them that.