Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-06-03

Farmers Club.
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Fishes are vertebrate oviparous creatures,
having heart consisting Of one ventricle
and one auricle. They are capable Of
breathing water, their air-bIaddcrs perform
ing the duties Of lungs, and the gills OF
respiration The water, taken in their
mouth, instead Of entering the stomach,
passes through the gill apertures and cs-
capes, leaving behind the air contained in
it, to act upon the blood Fish are about
the same specific gravity as the element
in which they live, but by means of their
bladders, which they can dilate or contract
at viii, they vary their gravity, and descend
or rise with the same ease that a bird does
by expanding or contracting its wings, and
are able to pass through the water with
great rapidity, using as propellcrs members
called pectoral, vcntral, dorsal, and caudal
fms The bodies Of large portion of fish
are covered with scales, and their teeth are
the organs of prehension.
have eight ponds on my farm, all arti-
fetal and fed by springs; they are, with two
exceptions, fourteen feet deep, and con-
tain forty-fve varieties of fresh and salt
water fish; a portion of which, together
with their habits, | intend to describe, and
will commence with that most highly priced
by sportsmen, the Trout .Salnto Fario).
TIE TRoUT is the only fish that comes
in and goes out Of season with the deer;
he grows rapidly, and dies early after reach
ing his full growth. The female spawns
in October-at a different time from nearly
all other fish after which both male and
female become lean, weak and unwholcsome
eating, and, if examined closely, will be
found covered with species, Of Glove
shaped insects, which appear to suck their
substance from them; and they continue
sick until warm weather, when they rub
the insects off on the gravel, and imnedi-
atcly grow strong. The female is the
best for the table. She may be known
by her small head and deep body. Fish
are always in season when their heads are
so small as to be disproportioned to the size
of their body. The trout is less oily and
rich than the salmon the female is much
| brighter and more beautiful than the male
they swim rapidly, and often leap, like the
salmon, to great height, when ascending
streams When | first stocked my trout
| pond, | placed fifteen hundred in it, and
was accustomed to feed them with anglo
worms, rose buds, crickets, grasshoppers
&C., which they attacked with great voracity
to the amusement of those looking on
They grow much more rapidly in ponds
than in their native streams, from the fact
that they are better fed and not compelled
to exercise Trout are the only fish known
to me that possess voice, which is per
ceived by pressing, when they emit mur
muring sound, and tremble all over.
THE CARP (Cyprinas Ca,pio).-Of thi
delicious fish / have a great abundance
having obtained my original stock from
Captain Robinson, of Newburgh, fourteen
years since. They breed twice each year
producing about forty thousand each tim
and grow to the length of fifteen inches
Ihave seen them on the banks of Lake Go
mo, in Italy, weighing one hundred AM
seventy-fve pounds; | feed them with bread