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...Rapidan, Va., summer camp President Hoover enjoyed the sight of 200 goldfish sporting in a pool...
These and other recent items of goldfish news were of special interest to a dark mustached little Japanese named Roy Nakashima as he went about his business of raising goldfish in Missouri's Ozark Mountains last week. Fish culturist of Ozark Fisheries. Inc.. Roy Nakashima last year raised and sold more than 500,000 goldfish. This year he expects to sell a million. Chief reason : Depression...
...Bennett Springs. Mo. Two years later he sold the club to the State and with Oilman Frederick Lawrence Bailliere of Tulsa, Okla. bought a new site nine miles northeast of Stoutland on which they began raising rainbow trout commercially. Trout raising proved unprofitable, so they decided to raise goldfish and went in search of a goldfish expert...
...David Starr Jordan of Stanford University, world-famed ichthyologist, found one for them. Roy Nakashima is an M. F. H.* from the Imperial Institute of Tokyo. He spent 20 years studying fish, two of them under Chancellor Jordan at Stanford. He went to Japan, returned with a stock of goldfish which he distributed about the 80 pools of Messrs. Furrow & Bailliere's Ozark Hatcheries. He introduced scientific methods for the control of protozoa flukes, fungi and other aquatic organisms, soon had a fast growing community of strong, healthy goldfish...
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...