Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — Millions of Eels. [ARTICLE]

Millions of Eels.

Fish culturists will be interested in an enormous eel-pond—the largest in America—on a farm in the town of Riverhead, Mass. It covers five acres, and is so full that the eels can be raked out with an ordinary garden-rakes Ab«ut 2,000 dozen eels were put into the pond five years ago, and their number has now increased to millions. They are fed regularly,every third day .on “horse-feet, ” a peculiar shell-fish, and at meal-time a crack from their owner’s whip will bring thousands of them to the surface, and so sagacious are they that they will appear for no one else.