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The Maryport Advertiser - May 5, 1882

THE POPE A FARMER.
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 How many people are there that know that the Pope is a farmer? Such is the fact, however, and there is reason to believe that his Holiness makes a very good thing of it. Leo XIII, “goes in,” however, neither for the growing of cereals nor the raising of stock, but for the breeding of fish.
 
 The lagoons of Comacchio are thus turned to profitable use. Eels are the staple, and several tons of cooked eels are sent from the lagoons every Lent. The fish come up in immense shoals from the Adriatic, and are fed in the lagoons on other fish provided for them, until they are nicely fattened, when they are killed, and cooked in a vast kitchen.
 
 The labourers on these water farms dwell in barracks built on an island. This is yet another instance of the strange use to which land may be put.
 
 
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