The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-04
TIE FIGURES.

worth, has estimated the profits of his opc-
rations as follows:
TIE FIGURES.
Debt.
Cost of buildings, dams, etc.............. 5000
Cost OF trout for spawn .................. $500
Labor for four years. Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Feed, 100000 for four years ............ 10000
Feed, 100000 for three years .......... 10000
Feed, ,000,0O for two years ........... 1900
Feed, 100000 for one year. 1000
TOtal. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $4,000
CyedH.
Value, 100000, years, b each. .. 100000
Value, 100000, years. y ID each. ..... 125,000
Value, 1,000,00O, years, i ID EACH. G2,50O
Value, l,0OD,0OO year, % ID each. ..... 1880
Worth of trout at end of 4 years -. s,75O
Deduct the price OF growing. ....... 47,l0O
Total profit ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. s42l, $50
With such profitable profits as these be
fore the eyes of the Spectator. it is no
wonder that the business is growing so ex-
tensively. AS late as 1868, when mention
was made of the interest, rather as a pros
pectiye one, in the Government Agricultu-
raj Report, its development was hardly
begun Mr.. Ainsworth had already estab-
lished his trout works successfully at West
Bloomfield, N. Y; and there were also the
private establishments of DR.. j. III. Slack,
at Troutdalc, near Bloomsbury, n. J.
IIoyt J. Robinson, at Meredith Village, N.
II. Messrs. George Stark, Edward Spauld-
ing, Charles Williams and o. III. Phillips,
at Nashua, n. H.. the Rev. Livingstone
Stone, at Charlestown, N. H. and a num-
Der on Long Island. where an investment
of about 100000 had already been made,
though the return at that time had been
light. except in the sale of eggs and young
fish.
Among the establishments then under
way the following may be mentioned.
They are still in operation, and are gener-
| ally meeting the most sanguine expectations
of their projectors.
The Sportsmens Club, having property
at lslip, of sixty to seventy acres, with
natural streams improved by art. This
property was then estimated to he worth
$4,000, and has since vastly increased in
value.
The Stump Pond" owned by Phillips
& Wales, and fished by the Walton Club.
The property covers two hundred acres.
Maitlands Pond, near the last. The
property cost $50, 000 and includes forty
acres of land.
a fine stream west of the Sportsmen's
Club preserves, owned by Stillingworth Il
johnson. Two hundred acres of land and
the Improvements cost 5000
A fine trout pond at South Oyster Bay,
the property of Timothy Carman. This is
now considered one of the most valuable
preserves on the island.
NEW PONDS.
Since the date of this report numerous
other extensive preserves have been estab-
lished, having all the most approved meth
DDS and appliances for successful trout cul-
ture among others those of August Bel
mont, and more recently those of eX-Con-
gresham Roosevelt of New York city, Mr.
Lorllard, Mr. Bishop of Brookhaven, Ma
thanicl Miller of Brookhaven, Nelson C.
Hawkins of Bellfort, "A. j. Hines of Patch
ogue, Dayton & Gregory near Patchogue,
Robinson Brothers near Swan Creek, Rob-
ert Bland OF. Swan Greek and others whose
names do not now occur to us. All of
these are on the south side of the island,
along the region so successfully opened up
within few years by the South Side rail
road. The facilities for trout culture are
known to be equally good on the north
side, however, and we already hear of ex-
tensive movements on foot to make them
available at the earliest practicable mo-
ment.
TROUT BREEDING IN MAspETH.
The success of Mr., William Fuman, of
may well serve as an incentive to new eff
forts in this direction. He was the flcst to
introduce fish breeding on the island on an
extensive sbale, and his pond, spawning
grounds and nursery are doubtless the most
complete in the country. The pond is an
artificial one, covering an area of about
five acres, and has good half mile of cast
ing ground. The stream, passing through
"A marshy tract, was at first small and slug
glsh, and Mr.. Il. conceived the idea of ex-
tending it in curves, like the letter S. The
experiment was regarded by many as doubt
full, but springs dubbed up from the sandy
bottom, and its success was at once assured
The bottom of the pond, as well as of the
clearinghouse, is covered with washed
gravel and pebbles, and the sides arm lifted
with heavy planks to prevent the burrow-
ing of musk rats. A large dam with flood
gates shuts off the surface water from the
pond. The hatching-house ad joins the
pond and tbs trout readily run in and spawn
in Il natural manner, not a fish being han
died. The trout run into the honse in
pairs about the latter part of October or
the first of November, dropping out again
into the pond about the first of January,
after spawning, the house then being
closed until the ova is Matched Mr.. Fur
man has in his hatchng-house nearly a
million of fish of this years Matching, and
full as many in the nursery of last years
Matching, while the pond is filled with fish
of older growth, weighing from one to
three pounds, and some even heavier No
fish are taken from the pond except with
the fly. Mr.. Furman few years ago built
one of his Matching houses on the Smith
town river in Suffolk county, and the
stream now affords fine fishing
| soIrru SIDE poNDs
Taking the line of the South Side railroad
after leaving Bushwick, trout streams and
ponds will be found along it entire
length. The first is the Brooklyn City
Water Works pond at Jamaica. Near by
the pond connected with small stream, Il
fine pond was made two years ago, and