The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-12

pond, had. It came to me copied in a
score of papers, and my name was only
mentioned in it, quadrupled my cores
pondence at once and has kept it lively
ever since. 1 believe that it has put
twenty fish ponds in Georgia where
there was one before. My orders are
pouring in with a marvellous rapidlty to
give you some idea of what 1 am doing,
1 will give you the names of the men
for whom I have just stocked ponds in
the small place called Jenesboro, inst
seven miles below Atlanta. In that
village stocked lakes for Mr.. J. Davis,
W. ID. DeVaughn, Mark Johnson, Alb
ner Camp. W. III. III. Worm, r. W
Munday, Mr.. Simms, Mr.. James Bailey,
and perhaps one or two others. / put
an average of 5000 fish in each pond /;
80 that you will see 1 have put over
300, 900 fish into Jonesboro on this one
trip.
have Just stocked eight or ten lakes
around Atlanta, and are kept going all
the time. The interest taken in the
matter is wonderful"
THE PROFIT OF FISH RAISING.
Correspondent What does it pay
yon to stock pond p
Col. Youge-" Well, sir, from $50 to
S75. Icharge fer impregnated spawn
$40 per thousand young fry $40 per
Thousand breeding fish SIS per pair. I
suppose will stock at the least esti-
mate this year IS ponds; possibly 40 ::
I will get an income of $1,000 from
stocking IS ponds"
Correspondence you not sell the
grown fish, in the cities for food ?"
Col Yonge-"I have not done SO
extensively yet. but will do SO this sea-
son. [ hav, just invented, and had
patented, tank for shipping the fish
to market alive. 1t is quite simple, and
will keep the fish hearty and fresh for
days. The tank has a spout on the side
like a coffee pot, and the fresh water
being put in at the top, presses the dead
water ont through the spout, and thus
keeps the fish healthy nd fresh.
1 Will arrange to make constant ship
ments of live fish into Atlanta, Colum-
bus, Macon. and Montgomery. When
get this scheme at work, nv profits
will be immense. I can take from my
pond. without running down my stock.
THREE BUSHELS OF FISH PER DAY.
These fish, put live, fresh, and deli
cents a pound. They will command
to the bushel, Mt 20 cents per pound,
day, have a net income of over 90
dollars per day. I feel that have Cd
independent fortune in my pond. If
every man in Georgia could become
aware to morrow of the incredible, and
yet inevitable profit in fish raising, to
say nothing OF the pleasure and enter
tainment derived from the pursuit.
would have more ORDERS in six months
than could fill in six years. The re-
vival has opened, however, and in three
years the whole state will be dotted
with thriving and abundant ponds"
TIE TROUT, THE Dream AND THE RED
HORSE.
Correspondent sort of fish
do you consider the best for southern
farms
Col. Yonge.-'1 prefer the trout, the
Dream and the red-horse. I have ex-
perimented largely, and I find there
much the best. They are harder, grow
faster, breed more reliably. and are
better for table uses than any fish have
yet seen. OF these three species, the
Dream gets its growth the fastest,
though the trout will take on pounds of
flesh sooner than the Dream. A pond
stocked with these fish, will yield you
all you want with hook or seine in nine
Or twelve months. L notice that heavy
attacks were made upon your article by
northern pisciculturists. because you
said that trout might be eaten in six
and that they frequently grew
10 weigh IL pounds. DR.. Bachman de-
clared that trout never got to weigh
more than two and a half or three
pounds, and would not average over
one and half pounds. This difference
may be reconciled by the statement that
IL is only n difference of nomenclature.
What DIR. Bachman calls the brook
trout never lives this side of the Blue
ridge. 1t is a small, delicious fish,
and does not attain great size. The
1ortherners give our trout the name of
pass. That's the difference. I have
scores of trout in my lake, as can
show you in a moment, that will pull
ne team down at eleven pounds, and
some that, think, will weigh fifteen
pounds. I have put trout on the scales
often that weighed over ten pounds.
There is besides these species
A PRETTY ORNAMENTAL LITTLE FISH,
sailed the dace "a sort of perch that
adds to the beauty and iveliness of
pond, but for substantial purposes, I
the Dream, the trout, and
The red-horse"
Correspondent-'Do you feed your
fish ?"
Col. Yonge-''Not at all, sir; they
i've on each other. Ihave them in such
enormous quantities that am enabled
10 allow them to do this. My son super
intends the pond, and that is all the
expense have"
Correspondent '.Have you ever made
any very large catches of fish in any
1ne day~
Col Yonge-"No, sir. I might do
70 if I wished, but I never slaughter
hem unnecessarily. might put fifty
men with barbs and poles around the
pond, and they might pull fish out till
hey were exhausted and they could
not tell the difference after weeks of
fishing. But I generally take out only
enough to answer my purposes of table
n courtesy.
STOCKING THE RIVERS.
wish very much we could have law
passed in Georgia. looking towards the
'tocking of our rivers with fish. By
ev dollars expense, and stringent laws,
which would prevent the fish being
roubled in spawning time, you could
nave, ~ lew years time, every river IN
Georgia absolutely teeming with de
lcious fish. I am inclined to believe
that our speckled trout is the best table
fish, both as 20 favor and convenience
in eating. that lever saw. 1t is as GER
tain as any thing can be, that in very
few years our rivers may be made to
swarm with these fish, if the legislature
will only take hold of the subject, and
determine that it shall be So"
BEAUTIFUL FARM.
tter the conversation had ended,
correspondent took a stroll over
nge's farm. 1t is doubtful if
is a better appointed or more
t)lete farm in the south than his.
de has a vineyard, that is of itself a
Tonder. He has a dairy, and herd Of
he very best of blooded cattle, with
yes as lustrous as a woman's and coats
Is fine as silk !; from which he puts