WILD DUCKS use Weavers’ ponds to raise their
young. Roy and Mrs. Weaver enjoy having them
around, and throw out liberal handfuls of feed for
the feathered brood daily. L. F. Photo
Farm Ponds has to keep after excessive
(Continued from Page 8) growth of waterweeds and fih
~ , mentous algae. Weaver has
Then, if you manage to deal - . ,
effectively with all of these “ ze ‘ hat and weed coitrol
Sodue? vou chemicals takes care of this
£ V e to worry about muskrats P roblem - As Houseknecht ex
ruining the pond itself by bur- ed ’ fertilizer (either a 20-
“ ~ 20-5 or 8-8-2 analysis) applied
rowing holes in the walls so J
the pond won’t hold water. early in the spring encourages
In addition, the operator the growth of microscopic al-
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lakes us about two sea
produce a marketable
'w,” he said, adding that
heard of it being done
time by some, but that
isn’t managed it.
fish are fed twice a day
■ them growing faster,
itched Mrs Weaver mix
- a batch of “home-made”
ior one pond which con
sisted of meat scrap, cotton
seed meal, middlings and wa
ter Sometimes this is fed wet,
and other times simply scat
tered in dry form on the wa
ter.
The fish are sold to bait
stores for resale to fishermen
Most of Weaver’s customers
come to the farm and haul the
bait in their own containers,
but in some cases Weaver has
to deliver the order.
The fish are “harvested” by
tossing in metal fish traps tied
to a line. These traps arg two
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to a depth of about 18
, they shut off sunlight
ation necessary to the
of waterweeds and fili
>us algae. You can tell
you have a satisfactory
ition of algae and plank
[ouseknecht said, by the
ish-green appearance of
ater.
FISH PRODUCTION
Ides dealing with all the
factors which try to
ie bait-fish producer out
;iness, Weaver has the
hemselves to contend
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basket halves which lock to
gether. He may pull in 50 to
150 minnows with each cast.
The traps are then emptied
into a homemade, portable
grader which sits in the wa
ter where the operator is
working. The screen on the
grader is designed to hold only
market-sized fish, permitting
the under-sized fish to escape.
When do you market fish 7
Weaver said he gets calls for
fish as late in the season as
December and as early as Feb
ruary. "It pretty much follows
the fishing season,” he said,
adding that “with ice fishing
getting so popular, it seems
the fishing season is getting
longer each year ”
The Weavers have also been
raising shiners, a larger bait
fish, but have found they are
consideiably haider to grow
than fatheads
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Weeds Choking Your Pond?
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Use a little Diquat in that choked-up pond of
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Diquat kills aquatic weeds like nothing you’ve
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water fern, pondweeds, coontail, southern naiad,'
waterhyacinth, elodea. They’ll all wilt, collapse
and die.
Diquat is easily applied Use it as directed.
It is non-hazardous to fish. In fact, it would take
twenty times the maximum recommended dosage
to be at all harmful to fish. After ten days, you’ll
even be able to swim in the water or use it for
spraying or irrigating. That’s all it takes for Di-
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successful fish business is a
reliable supply of pure water.
Weaver has a spring deliver
ing 15 gallons per minute.
This is piped into the 20x20-
foot, concrete holding pool,
and from there, successively,
to five ponds in a row. Weaver
said this was not the safest
way to handle the water sup
ply since contamination in any
one of the upper ponds would
be passed to all of those be
low it through the continuous
water supply.
Another important ingredi
ent in successfully operating
any pond is a nearby creek.
Weaver doesn’t use his creek
as a water souice for fear of
some contaminant killing the
fish However, he does use it
to handle by-pass water from
the spring when necessary, or
when draining one of the
ponds
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