Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — Growing Bullfrogs for Market. [ARTICLE]

Growing Bullfrogs for Market.

There is a town in Arkinas called Al lints, at least there is a poetoffice by that name, and some houses are fOttered promi cuoutly through the miry vicinity'. Atlanta nettes snugly in the midst of a charmin; swamp, where enakesand toads are wont to congregate, and where such a thing as toil Clears the same relation to reality that an algebraic equa'i n bears to a known quan ity. The inbabi'ants doubt not there is soil under Atlanta, but the trouble is to get beneath the superficial stratum of swamp and reach the great dep hat which it is supposed soil might be found. Toe Ark n’as agent of the Ealy Merchantile Company, was asked to send in a report of Atlanta. He has just sent it, and in it he bring) to light a new industry. The swamp being unsuited to the growing of grain, the inhabitan’s have suited themselves to the circumstance, and now grow bullfrogs for market. They have excellent seed, and the growths have been magnificent un'il last year, when the whole crop hopped away before it was ripe. This was very discouraging but when the time came another crop was put in and at last reports it was doing wdl, though there areindicationrtha r.he p ecadeut set by the last crop may be followed ths year, as several of the more mature frogs have been peregrinating about the swamps already. When the field docs not take unto itself legs and hopaway, it is sold. Ealy’s agent is endeavor ing to make a contract for one thousand bushels to be delivered out of the first crop that can be detained until it thoroughly ripens.