Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-02-26
The Culture of Fish.

in tho State and to recommend such
methods Of improvement as might occur to
them from their Investigations, hive mado
thcir report to tho Legislature. An interest
ing portion of tho document is devoted to the
consideration of the subject of trout culture.
On this subject tho commissioners say of far.
mcrs and fishermen: "Ccrtainly they would
not hesitate to begin this industry did they
know the little labor needed and tho consid.
cradle food and profit to be derived. They
should know that the skim milk of ono good
COW turned into curd will plontifully feed 500
pounds Of TROUT, and with what they them
selves pick up will cause them to grow rapid.
ly. Now will it feed 500 pounds of pork7
The trout are worth at least $3.50; the pork
moro than $50. Il bit of curd tho size Of
tho finger, rubbed and washed in o bowl Of
water, is enough food for 10000 young trout
fry, just aftor absorption of tho sac Cape
Cod is especially adapted to the culture Of the
finest trout; for it is not tho celebrated Marsh
apec river alono which is capable of producing
thom. Every tiny creek or rill that ompties
into salt water is available for their culture"
In regard to salmon tho experiments of
last year were not as successful us was hoped.
Tho spawn procured did not oil hatch, and
many of the young fish died. Future pros
poets arc more promising. Tho views of the
commissioners concerning pickcrcl arc 30
tcrsely put that We quote them entire:
"Having spoken of several species worthy
of cultivation, it may DO fitting to speak of two
that should DO cultivated only by throwing
them on land and cutting their heads off,
These arc the mud and pond pickercls (Esor
oraatus and aeticutotus.) Moro abominable
animals there arc not. And the best proof
that our people crave fish is that thoy are vii.
ling to cat pickcrel. To raise other fishes
near them is like trying to raise poultry under
a hawks nest. They penetrate oven to cold
trout brooks, and dcvour the young of every
species that comes in their way; so that thoy
utterly d%epopulato the waters and convert
thousands of tho finest fishes into their W
soft, muddy-tasting flesh. If the State would
offer a premium of five dollars a CARLOAD for
Thorn it would be money we'll spent. Instead
of this these ogrcs are actually protected by
laws, and may be taken only in certain ways
and at certain times, under penalty Of one
dollar for each offence. Yet there is not a
fifty cent pickcrcl that has not swallowed ten
dollars worth Of better fish himself"
Tho commissioners urge with great force
that food fishes ought to be protected as prop.
crty. The needed Legislation is thus pre-
scribed
/. Great ponds and minor tidal streams
shall be controlled by their riparian proprie.
tors, so far as concerns tho taking of certain
fishes.
2. The commissioners Of inland fisheries
shall, under certain conditions, have power to
set apart water for breeding fish, and to pro.
hibit fishing therein for stated time, or at sta
ted seasons.
8. Tho putting of drugs and dyestuffs or
dcleterious products of manufactures into
ponds and streams shall DO prohibited.
4. There shall be q certain and uniform
number of days in each week of tho fishing
season whom fishing shall be prohibited.
ADVERTISING TEsTED.-An Atlanta paper,
in the course of an article on the value Of
advertising to business men, says:
A merchant in Macon, who had been sue
oessful for years, concluded at the beginning
of one year that he would try the virtue Of
advertising. That year ne spent eighteen
hundred with the printers, and his W tcsti-
mony is, that he did three times the amount
of business that he ever did before in the
same length of time. He still keeps his name
and business prominent in the papers, and
finds his profits steadily increasing. Other
merchants in Macon, witnessing the success
Of this house, followed its example, and now
the Macon papers arc among the best patron.
jed in tho State, and the business men of
that city are among the most substantial in
the South.
We happen to be able to testify to the
truth Of this statement in every Particular
For tho size of the place, there is more nd.
vcrtising done in Macon than in any other
city of the South, and hence hor extraordinary
prosperity since the close of the war. The
name of nearly every merchant and business
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