Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1888 — Gold Fishes. [ARTICLE]

Gold Fishes.

People who buy gold fishes are easily deluded by designing dealers, as a general thing, because they are not familiar with the characteristics of the life of this specimen of _the finny tribe. The gold fish is white when small, but turns to a beautiful gold color at a year’s growth, and will probably remain this color for three or four years, when old age again turns it a cream like white color, and its fins and tail by this time are very beautifully developed. The fish of course sells for the highest price when it is of a gold color. When it is white the customer is told that it is a very different fish, and sometimes sells it for a silver fish. There is a genuine silver fish. Sometimes one will have a gold spot on its head, and then it commands a much higher price, as the customer is made to Knlinvfl tlmt. it in a amirl finK UCIIC TC vllCVt it ID Cm Cv/IU 110X1 ,