Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28

All About Fish.-DEAR NEWs.-On Monday, the 1Tth inst, Salisbury was en- rlched by 10000 land locked salmon, whose cash value is $2000. These fish were se- cured through the efforts of the Salisbury Bird and Fish Protective Company from the state fish commissioners These com missioners are W. M. Hudson of Hartford, Robert G. Pike of Mlddletown and James A. Bill of Lyme. Their work has neces- sarily been small. because the appropriation for their use has not been sufficient to ac- complsh very much. They are among the few officials who, to use the old phrase, cut their coat according to the cloth ; but with their limited funds they have done a work that in few years will bear rich fruitage. In no way can m6ney be as well invested as in pisciculture, and in no other way can such great and speedy returns be had. Our commissioners have been ham pered in the past, and owing to an ignorant prejudice will, fear, be hampered for some time to come. There is no more trite or truthful an axiom than, continual sub traction surely exhausts the principal If we always take fish and never replace, we | shall ere long have waters as devoid of life as the Dead Sea. If we will only encour- age and protect Nature in her efforts at re- production we can have the same waters teeming with life. Ours is the choice. If we do not SOW, SO surely shall we have nothing to reap.
 Perhaps word in regard to the value of the fish crop of portions of the United States may not be amiss, as people gene rally are not accustomed to give the ques tion thought. As statistics are dry, only offer one viz, the value of the fisE taken on the Pacific slope. In the year 1874 it amounted to six millions of dollars in 1875, after little Judiclous care and leg islation, the catch of salmon only in tho Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers amounted to the modest sum eff $l, ,297. .5S7 50, and these two are by no means tho principal fish producing rivers of the Pa cific slope. Many of Natures gifts are ca pablo only of exhaustion, so far as mar is concerned; such is the case with he minerals and precious stones. Here WI have mine of wealth, which if judicouslJ worked is incomparable in richness, inex haustable in quantity. With the people only lies the decision, whether or no th, fisheries shall be a source of health pleas ure or profit, or barren waste. The littl salmon that put in an appearance on Mon day were fifty days old when deposited il the streams leading to the respective lake the upper of the Twin Lakes and tn Wononsconamoc. They had been treated to ride from Canaan behind the spankin team of one of our staunchest members Mir. Ebert Eggleston-who means bushes in this line, as he does in everything b undertakes, and also had the pleasure o the company of Mir. George .Jelliffe, super intendent of the Westford Matching Assc ciation's works, which is of itself quite a
 inducement to life, as good company a ways makes life pleasant. Mir. Jelliffe is , genial, pleasant gentleman, and from th fact that not one dead fish could be foun F among 10000, should say that he under l stood the care of fish as well as any ma beneath the canopy of high heaven.
 CRoToPHAGA.