Frog-Legs
My reference to frogs a few months ago has brought me an article from the New Yorker, forwarded by E. E. Hoyt of Ames, Iowa; and, reading it, I have discovered some wonderful information on America's frog population, frog-eating, the market for frog-legs and other statistics as to the distance which various species can jump. It seems that there was a plague of leopard frogs in Wisconsin last year, and that in the vicinity of Oconto it was estimated that they had seventy-five million frogs. Although America is ,a great importer of frog-legs from such places as Japan and Cuba, the market was not affected by the plague because frogs only come to maturity in their third year. I was amused to read that the world's record for three successive jumps—sixteen feet four inches—was set up by a bullfrog named Maggie in 1934 at Calaveras County Fair in California, and that, while the athlete Jesse Owens jumped four times his own length in 1935, a cricket frog can jump thirty-six times its length. The flea, however, can spring fifty to a hundred times its length, which is a sobering thought for the fastidious.
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