The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1871-01-19
FISH CULTURE.

whose labors 10 fish Matching have beer
remarkabl successful, writes as follows
All the water Of this country can b.
filed with fish adapted TO them Ever,
acre of water is worth two acres Of lant
if properly iarmed Most persons sup
pose that il can be done at trifling ex
ponse. Il can be done cheap. but il
cannot be done for nothing Spend
one thousandth part of the sum spent
10 tilling the land, 10 cultivnting the
water, and fish may be sold in our mar.
kets at two cents per pouad.
81 Matched about FIVE hundred thou
sand trout last season, and sold about
five hundred thousand impregnaied
trout spawn. Those who followed my
directions Matched fair proportion.
send the spawn to any part of the
United States, by express, and have
sent them to the Rocky Mountains by
mail and express. The young fish can
be sent almost any distance. if sent in
January o. February. In hot weather
they do not carry we'll. have trout
growing in almost every State in the
Union. All the spring streams 10 the
country can be stocked with trout.
spent two weeks on the Hudson River
aud Matched few shad, but | cannot
do anything without legislation"
Mr.. Green gives the following direc-
lions for handling the spawn:
"Pick the moss carefully off from the
top of the spawn. Then put the box in
a pan of water and turn it nearly bot
tomside up, and pick the moss out
carefully. The spawn will sink to the
bottom, aud you can pick the moss out
of the pan. If there is little left it
will do no harm. Then pour the spawn
in your hatching trough, by holding the
edge of your pan under water, and place
them, without touching the spawn, by
agitating the water with the bearded
end of a feather. The dead spawn will
turn a milk-whitc color, and should be
picked out. Your trough should be so
arranged that the water will run in it
about twelve feet per minute. The
water should be filtered by running
through gravel or cloth screens. to
prevent the sediment from reaching the
spawn. ! run about one inch Of water
over my spawn, and if any sediment
gets on them and is allowed to remain
there long, it will surely kill them.--
Remove all sediment with the bearded
end of a quill, by agita'ing the water,
without touching the spawn.
Large ponds with but little water
get too warm in summer and too cold in
winter for trout to do well. 1t is dctri-
mental to have any other fish with
trout. Any kind of fish or fish spawn
is good for feed. The young should be
fed twice per day, very slowly; if fed
fast the feed sinks and beiouls the
trough. and the trout will sicken and
die. If fed regularly and the trough
kept clean, with good change Of water,
aud not kept too thick, they viii live
and do well. If neglected they will
surely die.
The sun, sediment, rats, snails, craw
fish, and many water insects, are death
to spawn. My troughs are twenty five
feet long, and fifteen inches wide. The
water that feeds each trough would 90
through halfinch hole with three.
inch head. Use fine gravel that has
no iron rust in it. NJ troughs IRE
three inches higher at the head. The
average temperature Of the water is
forty.five degrees, aud the fish hatch in
seventy days. Every degree colder or
warmer will make about six days differ
ence in Matching. Trout hatch the
soonest in warm water. The sac on
their bellies sustains them Tor forty or
forty-6ve days after Matching, then they
need food.
When the fish are Matched, raise the
water in the troughs about four or FIVE
inches by putting on a piece Of board
of that width on every crosspiece, thus
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plenty of food for small trout and large