The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-11

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ALL ArDDT TROUT EsD rsour pr,,n., &.
L. "a. b. Fuller, Malone, III. Il j,ava 8. 3,
Experimenting with trout for twf, ve s.ar :
and find u can learn something all She TIM,
| Make your ponds as flear OBJ you poasif,iv
can Us nature makes them give them All
kinds Of bottom; mud as well as gravel.
Sand, grass banks, old stHmps. hy1silss.
roots, ind old logs, all hold animal life, aiad
evefy fTout In the pond Is on the lookout
for ANYTHING that moves. Ponds with CO.
tmei,t walls viii not afford much natural
food. i think many gentlemen VINO build
such ponds, and try to make them look fine
lby, building nice walls, starye their trout
| by feeding only such food IS is fed dead. I
| think they require some live food though
they will do well for time on chopped
meat, curd, and the like. Beginning with
the small fry, have fed eggs, ard-boiieds
I'm, putting in O half egg of. q time. Wet
the net and squeeze it WeR with the hand,
and rinse of the little particles that come
through; they float along and are caught
By the fry. Sour milk is full as good. Cur.
died blood is too heavy, and OF too dark
color. Great care must be taken in feeding
| ID, as the boxes Soon become foul. Turn
out the little fellows as soon as possible into
good pasture they will do better than
when fed by hand. Keep as near nature
IS you can, and protect item from their
natural enemies-old trout, kingfsbers,
minks, and Water-mice. turned out our
not fed them anything since. They are
now two inches iong-as: smart as the old
ones. These, yearlngs had not been fed
when I took them out to make room for
the little ones. They were four to six
inches in, length. InoW feed them chopped
meat and sour milk in addition to What
they catch, and Il take pains to introduce
any insect or cPawlers, that will live In
water, that q trout will eat. Our fresh
water leech Is a very sweet morsel to o
trout, and can bescasiiy propagated where
trout can feed on them. CLAIMS make good
feed; little more trouble to open and feed
them, out, but they are better than liver.
The question of cheap feed is one of great
importance to those engaged in fish c1lture5;;
everything that will grow with the trout
that he can use as food must be taken care
of. do not think any one can depend en-
tirely on butchers meat or curds. We have
been very successful in getting our ponds
stocked, and have had very few deaths
among the fish. / attribute our success to
the make Of our ponds as much as to the
care. We have built open walls, plenty
hiding places, and good shade among the
stones. We have Il, 600 old trout, and are
now prepared to stock other ponds began
work October, 1858, with thirty two-year-
| old trout. We have 100000 young ones,
start on trout, our study now is cheap feed,
and any new light / may get on the subject
shall be glad to mpart to new beginners
or others, either directly or through your
Club. ] Chased the kingtisher among the
enemies of the trout, but am not satisfied
that he is one. Last year tried to drive
them away from the ponds; but this year
let them nest in the bank near one pond,
and have watched them closely, and have
never seen one dive into a pond, and am
not sure that they catch trout. Others say
they do, but think so much of anything
| in, the bird line that want to keep the
kngisher II I can. I would advise all be-
ginners to visit some one engaged in the
business and get practical knowledge be-
| fore starting; it viii save much time and
texpense. See how they feed and the guam
| tity. =, Eef - sl
| i.aP@ HOW TO COOL stEEPING-R0oMs.
J.. M. Burdick, of Ilion, N. Y, wrote
that sleeping-rooms might be made tolerable
in hot weather by simply saturating nap
kins,, towels, newspapers, etc., with cold
water and leaving them to evaporate. (Dr.
lJ.-V. G. Smith said that the practice was u
good one, but a few pounds of ice in the
room was better.) The same gentleman
advised cutting Of potato,,blossoms, as the
growth and maturity of the seed-balls sub
| tracted considerable from the amount OF
nutriment that the roots furnished. He
also suggested that q piece of raw beef hung
in q bedroom would attract the mosquitoes
from the slumberer, very much to his re-
lief. ~ ~
49,. -. ABOUT CROWS.
Gilbert Smith, Of Highland, N. T., wrote
i" 1t is q great mistake to suppose that
crows will condescend to feed on such COM
mon stuff as caterpillars, OF grasshoppers,
or any other troublesome insect, so long MS
they can find young birds, OF turkeys, or
chickens. / have caught them more than
once in the very act Of breaking up nest
of young robins within . few rods OF my
house. Like sneaking thieves, as they are,
they come before you are up In the morn
ing. l have been aroused by the agonizing
cries of the old ones in their efforts to save
their young, but generally just in time to to
| Iiunder.1
Mr.. Fuller sc He is wrong about grass
hoppers. ] have found them In the sto-
machs of crows repeatedly. do not be-
lieve they eat young BIRDS" 81.
And Mr.. FULLER is wrong. These ras-
cally crows will intrude themselves into the
barn-yard, and walking socially as they will
allow them among the chickens will In the
| most stealthy manner pick up the young
chickens and swallow them. So they will
rob all the birds nests they find except
those of birds who whip them away.-Dis-
patch.]