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Fish Master Nakashima raises many varieties of goldfish. Prices range from $2.50 per 100 for small common goldfish to $25 each for rare veil-tails and fringe-tails. Other varieties: comets (slightly larger and fancier than common goldfish), wakins (Japan's common goldfish, new in the U. S.), shubunkins, black moors (a black Chinese fish with big popeyes), calico fantails (mottled blue & red, with long, flowing tails). Ozark Fisheries also sell tadpoles, Japanese snails, baby turtles, fish food, water plants.

Goldfish spawning time begins in March, lasts three or four months. Females produce from 3.000 to 5,000 eggs a year, from which Roy Nakashima raises 500 to 1,000 fish. Eggs are spawned in moss & water. Ten days later the fish are put into separate pools, where they grow during the summer. Young goldfish are brown. In the autumn they are big & bright enough to be sold. They are bailed out of the ponds, sorted in troughs, placed in cans for shipment. During the trip the water in their cans is changed every eight hours. Ozark goldfish have stocked President Hoover's Rapidan camp (choicest varieties were kept in the White House), the Woolaroc ranch of Oilman Frank Phillips, the Bureau of Fisheries' aquarium exhibition. Fish Master Nakashima does not raise his goldfish for scientific experiments, but some of them may find their way into laboratories.

Roy Nakashima lives & talks goldfish 51 weeks a year. During the other week he watches the World Series baseball games, cheers diffidently for St. Louis when St. Louis is represented. He is in his late 30's. At work he wears rubber knee boots and a huge straw hat. He has found that the goldfish business booms with Depression because goldfish are a cheap form of amusement. He is now experimenting with diets to determine how much influence feeding has on the color and marking of the fish. Next winter he will go to Japan to seek new and strange varieties of goldfish for U. S. bowls.

Again, Ogopogo

"Ooooh! The Ogopogo!" cried a woman tennis player, pointing her racquet at Okanagan Lake. And again, last week, news readers throughout the land were reminded of British Columbia's fabulous lake-serpent. A gentle monster, 30 ft. long, "with the face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog, four flippers and vegetarian habits," the Ogopogo has appeared in Okanagan Lake every summer for the past six years. Usually it is sighted by a newshawk.

Like Lewis Carroll's Snark and several other mythical animals, the Ogopogo was first heard of in London. Some seven years ago in a musical show, Co-optimists, Jessie Matthews sang:

I'm looking for the Ogopogo,

The funny little Ogopogo—

His mother was an earwig,

His father was a whale—

I want to put a little bit of salt on his tail.

Two years later touring members of the Vancouver Board of Trade were guests of the Vernon, B. C., Rotary Club. Someone sang the Ogopogo song, the Rotarians picked it up, went Ogopogo hunting. But long before that Indians had seen the mysterious lake-serpent. Most likely explanation is that the Ogopogo is a mother otter followed by her pups swimming in tandem.