The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-24

them without success. There was generai ex-
as now practised became generally known. Every
body liked 1t because It was to be profitable ana Oe-
Wnse the 20 re that one female
contains $1,000 ova, almost every one Oh wmcn ~
tine present process OF impregnation, can DC uevei-
Oped into. nne, delicious three-year OLD trout.
worth 81 in the market, he will comprehend
the financial attractions thereof Mark well that
local disturbances may give the trout the disease
OF the gills or II after being hatcheo the
Young are not properly ied ana sized" they
Let us suppose that man Ii perfect trout cul-
turst; that he has spring that never ceases 20
stream, its nterinkng ponds and tts pebbled bot
tom BY turning loose 100 600 oil the young. which,
If he should not choose TO raise he can buy for $50
thousand or sum total OF $5,000 after three
years he would have slo0Oo0 worth OF the choicest
OF table daintIess No one, OF course can hope for
for trout iced on their kind. when the larger takes
mean advantage of his size. Still an approach
can be made 70 these figures. N~e4
CALEDONIA SPRING
Is yrenarkable instance. 1t would seem that
Providence made this brook for the express site
OF q State matching house and then created seth
Green to become its ultimate master. The water
bubbles up from the earth and never freezes, not
even during the coolest weather. .-
DRIVE TO THE STATE RESERVOIR.
Come" said Mr. Green, 'let's go out on tue
Wide Water and see eUf the state dshing insti-
tutions." Then we began TO descend through
the splendid marble corridors OF Powers million
dollar budng-the pride OF the Rochestrians.
Truly 1t is noble ediice and though al kocnes.er
might burn 10 con.d fiddle, Tor his structure Is
saalnander- clad. Mr. Powers. later IN the day.
explained the construction, and mention TINS
fact for the benefit OF the New York municipality
anC gingerbread architects IN general Mr.. Green
and walked across the street IN quest OF car
rage TO drive over the ice TO the haulingn holes
where they were SEEMING bass. PIKE ana many
species oil coarse fish. - .t#
.Take my carriage, Mr.. Green know you!"
Seth looked sharks. .
.'Take mine! I've driven you beiore"
Seth looked crocooiles.
"Take Inine!" a4N
"And nine ~ ---e
.And mine p and seth put on his flercest pisca-
torial visage, dove through the crowd and finally
Jumped into carriage, anu we went out OF Rocnes-
ter behind pair of Sharp-shOd horses. We talked
OF Rochester as the capital OF our States agrcul.
rure, as the metropolis OF Anne rican nurseries, and
then the fn-i-cal city OF our State. Our OBJ
jective the wide water OF the canal, IS simply
deep and wide pond In the dow OF the Erie Canal.
When the water was drawn oil In former years 1T
was found that the fish from Lake Erie settled In
this reservoir, and when In the Spring the Ice
quantities Of fish rotted In the sun. 10
utilize this depository, 1t was taken .by
the state, net was stretched ac. .s Inc Inc
Winter holes were cut IN the ice; the nets were
set. Every day quantities of black bass, white
bass, Oswego bass and pike were taken out and
assorted AS we arrived on the ice the men were
just hauling in the nets. fair supply was OBJ
tanned. The bass are generally assorted N their
. space cut in the ice. When Applications are
made Tor bass they are sent to all sizes and 1,O0O
splendid specimens OF their speces-these bass.
BASS.
tIt Is now only fourteen years." said Seth Green
to me, that fourteen bass were put IN the POtO-
mac River by an Englshman and to-day 1t ID the
greatest bass stream in the world. See how they
multiply. Another case: Only twenty-f0ur, were
put In a lake ia Orange county four years ago, and
now over ton OF bass has been taken OUT
"What do yon call the mature age Of the hsh, say
Oi all species, Mr.. Green ?"
'.All iish-there are exceptons-arrivc at ma
turity, our ge',ats homo twenty-one, when they
are three years OF age. They should be eaten
HUDSON RIVER sHAD. .M
"Shad, It seems, are troubled good deal by the
Hudson River fishermen ~
''ies. That is an evil that can only be stopped
by legislation, and think in time the Legislature
will pass a bill requiring the fishermen along the
Hudson to draw IN the nets from Saturday night
to Monday morning, III order that the snad may
run rom The sea TO their Spawning ground without t
seemed, and 1t will not be long before the supply
win be exhausted. The fishermen are too greedy
and unrcstrained by any thought OF the future.
They running the fisheries OF the State"
When we returned to the city Mr.. Green handed
me the following circular, which viii be interesting
HoRAIIo ssr4oun, Utica; EDw.ap SMITH, Rochester;
Fisheries Of the State Of New YORK.
DIRECTIONS.
ha,cns house the following rules have to be obeyed
Only public waters and private ponds, can be sup
The impregnatcd spawn Of salmon trout and white fish
be sent IN osonsr to such as ,, have
is can 'o ONLY be- delivered At uaedona and ali
persons wanting living iisa Of any KIND must send
speak Of streams and rvcrs and the means at the dis
attempt TO deliver sh at the expense Of the slate TO
avoid jealousy and dissatisfaction no exception VIII be
for the iish viii be MY cents caledonia and 81 At
Young white @ are in condition 70 transport from the
st 70 the ION Of February from the 18th
a esGS or Y ss s S
Milk are used for carrying VIII re FISH and salmon
trout and milk cans and pounding barrels or other
m an f hs sa s
600 salmon trout twenty to one hundred OF the
be e the under
and must ,s ha n ze 10 os
stating whether The ponds have rocky or muddy bot
pse hAS ss psSas wa
%eF S are IS a w
bass perch strawberry bass and buheads will only live
also snds 1T oand
IL almost stock rivers oysIow b hss
stranded by the rsGsdns waters and get into pond holes
All sh should be deposited near the head Of the lake
% 6 not no qSs 9SS 9s S as
be deposited during the night when most large fish do
and will md sh eans gnfs esSss
Once ,onr. cce y Mortimer street! Eoihessr 4
r. NJ.
"Mr. Green, have heard that you went out to
TAKING sHAD TO CALIFORNIA.
Eyes, went out there and took with me $1,000
young shad and turned them loose In their rivers
delivering INTO the Pacific. IL was great labor to
transport them over the Pacific Railway-so many
changes of water and little Of Ii along the r0ute
but worked with my own hands and succeeded in
getting through. This Is the first time shad have
ever been sent to the Pacific coast. Letters from
California inform me that they are doing well. So
have been at work oil over the United States
rying hundreds OF thousands OF small Try to stock
the waters OF tine country. My experience among
the Yankees was not 50 pleasant What do you
think OF New England generosity-the States OF
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New
Hampshire each made special appropriation OF
$50 to pay my labor and expenses In making per-
feet success IN shad hatcnlng; and they sent en-
voys who came 10 offer me the 5000! ! set loose
10, 900, 900 in their Connecticut River In one
year,
GLOW, then, do you sum up the general result Of
your abors 20
A FEW FIGURES.
''Shad have been chea2encd all over the coun.
try We are stocking streams, lakes and ponds
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