Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-04-01
The FTsh Farm az lima.


Mr.. David G. Pot,le of Alma, to whose
experiments We have previously madc
some alluSion, i gradually charging hi
operations i'm uout-brccling, building
new ponds. and by each seasons export
cnce becoming better acquainted with the
wants Of his Gnny tlockS, and more Ger
tain Of hi> success in rearing them. Mr.
Poulc'S ponds are situated in a rayinc on
the south slope of a sandy HILL \ spring
OF pure water, in unusual volume, gush-
Is cat from the hill side and ru>heS down
the rayiue, being Joined by several small
er springs coming from .ac banks ca
either hand \ number of subst,uiia.
wooden dams thrown across the rayiuc
form pond, in " which trout and Schoodic
salmon OF various ages are kept, and pre-
vented from mjuslirg with each other hy
gratings acro>> wa>;e-wayS of each dam
SIX OF these ponds, VARYING in size from
a thousand square yards ARIA to ,,>> than
q hundred, are already completed and
occupied; TWO or three more arc in pro
cess oi formation; and not Tar OF, ON a
larger brook, NJ Pou,y has several,
more Of a larger size that can be used
when necessary.
The water coming from the large spring
is first red through a series of troughs in
snail house; in these trough, the fish
are hatchld from eggs taken and dcPoS-
lied here in October and November, and
- warm is the spring that eggs which
in ordinary brooks wouId uo, hatch until
April hatch here in December and Jan
uary. Al this time lMarch) the winters
hatcLing i all over. and host, Of little
trout are croWdiug in dark corners or
hunting about lUr food. They ale sui
tciout.y yomCiou,. no, hc>i,atiuZ, Tics,
little fellows les than an inch long. Ia
attack angle worms twice their >jze-o,
course in vain-and the larger Of their
brood even attempting % swallow their
Younger brethren No food has been
given aym Yet, although some OF them
are nearly three months odd For the fir,
SIX or eight weeks of their life neither
trout or salmon req ire any TODD. indeed
they Will not eat it. being at that time
nouri>hc by the yo.k o. tie egg, which
remains attached - a great sack 10 the
body oi the Young fiji after Matching, uu-
Ill il j. gradually absorbed In scpa-
rate trough are some of the Schoodic sal
mon, that Matched later than the trout,
and are s,.., cucumbcrel with the yclk
sack These salmon ate only about one
inch long. Vet next December, If they
thrive aS well - those haichcd last wear.
they viii be tye or >iN inches in length,
and will weigh a hundred times a.
much as now. even if they have nothing
to eat but curdled milk.
Outside the Matching house are the
ponds where fsh of various sizes are
maintained. So great is the volume OF
waterfall flows from the spring that when
We visited the place early in the present
months, four # the ponds were aImos,
entirely free from ice. In one of them
are one hundred and twenty grown trout
kept a. breeders. and it is a sight WORT
going 10 see, when the whole school
dashes at a handful of meat thrown in. Ii
another pond are two thousand yeariins
Schoodic salmon. The young salmon an,
trout. having become accustomed h In,
bonny- clsbber that has been given then
three or four times week, DO not en-
meat so readily. bat the large front. afle
the first trial. are greedy lorit. They al
thrive, however. GA bonny-clabber Nj
Pottle has this winter been feeding par
of them on horses drowned at Gardine
early in the winter. IL is unceytai
whether this Frenchy diet will tend :
make Frenchmen of the trout, but at an,
rate it is iatteuing them up wonderfully
Here certainly is a use for the worn.ou
horses, so many OF which have to be kille
at the beginning of every winter.
The Schoodic salmon are apparent