The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-02-22
Preparations fer stocking sIichigan
Lakes with Whttesish.

In the course Of three or four weeks
The precise time cannot be stated
there IL every reasonable hope OF lib
eral supply OF whitcfsh for distribu
ton in the inland waters of the state.
Parties desiring them for stocking
their lakes are requested TO give heed
to the following, compliance therewith h
being prerequisite 70 obtaining the
1sh:
l. A correspondent aud deposi.
tors address plainly written for each
lake.
2. The name OF the lake.
3. County and township where To-
Gated.
4. Acreage a-sa, as nearly as may
be.
8. Extreme. and average depth OF
water, as nearly as practicable.
G. Railroad station at which il 4.
desired to have the cans OF fish ship
pad.
Z. The commissioner eau deliver no
fish except at railroad stations.
The supply for each lake will in no
case be less than 5000. aud ranging
from that to $4,000.
All depositors will receive notice OF
shipment from two or four dsys in ad-
vance. And it is most earnestly en-
joined upon depositors that they pre-
sent themselves at the baggage car
door on the stoppirg OF the train, that
they may receive from the party in
charge OF the cans instructions in re-
gard to the deposit, and that they may
assist in removing the cans from the
cars aud so occasion as little delay to
the train, aud trouble TO the employees
Of the road as possible. The roads OF
the state are very kindly moving our
fish free of charge, and hence every
consideration OF honesty and fairness
requires that we should facilitate the
transit OF the cans by every possible
means and agency at our command.
Again, persons consenting TO become
depositors must not forget their en-
gagement with ths superintendent;
they must come 10 time, meet the cans
on their arrival, though the heavens
fall. Should sickness or other calami-
ty befall the regular depositor. q good
substitute must be supplied. else the
fish will be dumped TO the platform,
meeting, nor meriting the pitilsss fate
OF
Those whom mady fathers sharc
Rarely know fathers care.
Depositors also must make il their
personal business to see that the emp
ty cans are Immediately returned to
Detroit, where the fish are, for except
this be 'dono the work will necessarily
be suspended aud the lakes unsup-
piled.
Depssitors, too. are requested to
make sharp work OF the deposit. Come
prepared TO 60 directly aud Immediate
ly from the station to IL the lake-no
matter what the hour, though il bo the
dead hour of midnight, all the better
for the fish, since at such time the wat.
er wolves and jackalls have their jaws
closed in obedience to Nsturs's great
mandate that assursth rest and securi-
ty alike to the hyena and the lamb.
Besides, no good depositsr will leave
his charge a single hour, and he may
as well-better, even-be vhistling bis
way 10 the lake than 10 bs at the sta
tion or at home lowering and shivering
over his cans OF fish through tho long
and weary hour.
Just ono thing moro. Should the
applications for fish exceed our supply
contingency hardly likely TO happen
in such event the ultimate selection Oi
the lakes to which the fish will be ship
ped must be left with the commission,
they assuring one and all that in max.
ing the selection and appointment only
one desire and purpose shall govern
their action. namely, to place the fish
where the field is the most promising
the chances Of success, the greatest
and, furthermore 10 plant exactly
where no party, section or interes;
shall DO remembered, nor none forgot
ten.
"yerDum sat, sapieuti"-ireely rem
dersd, trust MS and keep your powder
dry. GEORGE II. JERo2;r,
Superintendent State Fisheries.
Niles. February /. 1876.