Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-05-04
FISH FARMING

An acre OF water may be made to pro-
duce more food than twenty acres of
fallow land, while there will be no ex-
pense except for the planting. There
is no blowing, digging, fencing, etc.,
to absorb labor and capital; but simply
seed time and harvest. Stocking rivers,
lakes and ponds with fish is no longer
an experiment; and with the same care
which is bestowed upon the subject in
some of the eastern States, the lakes
and streams of Indiana might be made
to produce the best of fish for table use
of value equal to all the beef raised
in the State. A recent communication
from citizens of Canandaigua lake
shows how quickly and thoroughly the
work may be done. They say that the
lake had been almost depopulated of
fish, especially salmon trout. The very
free use of seines, gill nets and all 9TH
er appliances for catching fish seemed
to have nearly exhausted the supply.
Trout were so scarce that the most ex-
perienced fishermen frequently labored
whole day with hook ard line with
out catching more than one or two fish
and sometimes not any. In 1873 a few
of those taking an interest in such mat
tiers took upon themselves the task of
restocking the lake by transporting
the young fish from the state Matching
house at Caledonia.
After raising by subscription, funds
sufficient to defray expenses of trans
portation, they procured and placed in
the lake about I00, 900 salmon trout fry.
In 1874 they deposited in the lake $780,
900 and 10000 whitefish, and in 1875
about 10000 trout, making total of
$4,000 young salmon trout and 10000
whitefish in three years. In the spring
and summer of 1875 the fishing in Ca
nandiagua lake was such as had never
been known before. 1t was not remar-
kable to make catch of eight or twelve
trout in a few hours, and some were
fortunate enough to take even more
The largest catch of any one person in
a single day was twenty-one fine sal
mon trout taken with hook and line by
trolling. This very decided increase,
taken in connection with the fact that
very many of the fish were uniform in
size, justifies the belief that they were
Of those placed in the lake in 1928
there were about 10000 trout put in, in
1872 by other parties and that great
er portion of the fish, we have put in
are yet to come ON as sizable fish for
catching.
SilaS Brown says that twenty-five
years ago he dipped shingles in large
kettle of lime wash to which salt had
been added, and the whole kept boiling.
A few of the shingles were dipped in
all over at time, long enough to soak
them well, and then thrown aside to
dry. In short time all the shingles
were thus prepared. Although what
are termed ''sap shingles they have
lasted twenty-five years, land may do
so for years to Gomez Several expert
ments of a similar character have been
made since, with very successful re-
Subsidiary Cult,rator
The Sultan of Turkey employs in his
palace 5000 servants of both sexes. He
pays and feeds 800 cooks, 300 gardeners,
500 coachmen, and 600 more to do odds
and ends about the house. To feed
these people and their hangers-on / 200
sheep and 1000 fowls are killed every
day, and $1,000 francs for lights are ex-
pended. No wonder they call him the
sick man of Europe.