Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-10-28

/ fish and the high prices demanded here for
delicacy which is the commonest food anc
principal manure of the Chinese.
The first part of the article in HaTper ::
Magazine, which will he found to contain al
the information needed to build ponds and
hatching-houses and practice the art success
fully, gives a brief history of fsh-culture
from which we learn that the art has come
To us from ths Chinese that the ancient
Romans practtopd it largely: that the artl-
fetal impregnation of fish ova was hrst
practiced in modern Europe by monk, who
cultivated fish with all the selfshness of a
glutton, only for the qualification of his own
and the apletites of his associates in his
monastery; that the art was re-discoyered by
Dutch soldier; subsequently lost, and
again re-discovered at the opportune moment
when our requirements made it invaluable,
by a couple of illiterate French fishermen
The second part of the article tells " how
fish are artifcially bred, and contains full
and elaborate directions, accompanied by
valuable illustrations of the process of :. fish
farming" Most of this information is not
new, but is a compilation in brief space, OF
all the practical information contained in
more compendious documents, and written
les for the benefit of pisciculturs,s than the
instruction of such of the general public as
The writer says in his Introductory to this
part of the article that '' any farmer in the
United States possessed of good spring can
at the expense of few dollars, construct
ponds of sufficient area to raise trout by the
5en thousand;' and then proceeds u write
n such a way that any farmer can compre-
lend, the illustrations and descriptions being
,mple and easily understood. The most val
liable information contained in the article is
full description, with an IL lustratiOn. of
stephen ii. Ainsworth's Matching apparatus
,r race, which combines all the advantages
IF the best system of artificial impregnation
With that OF natural culture, and which,
With the experiments of Seth Green in shad
breeding, also fully detailed, will materially
improve all systems of fsh-breeeing A
third part of the article details the operations
10 the latest dates of the private fish farmers
and the various Fish Commissioners through
put the country. 1t appears by the state
ment of this writer that there are large fish
factories where trout, salmon, shad, and
black bass are manufactured for market by
tens and hundreds of thousands, at Mumford
and West Bloomfield, n. Y; Bloomsbury,
\. j., and Charlestown, Concord and Mer
idth Millage, \. ii.
The Legislature of Vermont have as yet
out slightly encouraged this important
branch of industry. Most of the laws
far enacted, inure more to the benefit of the
sportsman than any other class, and while
these should be enforced with the utmost
rigor, it seems that the time has come when
State aid should be largely granted. The
results of protraeted, scientific experiments
in other States, and in foreign countries
clearly demonstrate that every dollar ju-
expended would be returned t.
thousand fold. The companies which own
dams on any of our streams, should be re-
quired to build ishways at once. Our COM
mssioners are full of zeal and possessed with
a thorough understanding of the whole sub
ject. Give them but the means to work
with, and the luxury of the few will become
the sweet. wholesome food of the many.