Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-09-07

and about fifteen thousand are from
Sebago Lake, Maine, and are known
as the Sebago or land locked salmon.
The true salmon is an ocean fish that
runs up into fresh water to spawn.
and afterwards returns to the sea, and
the Sebago fish is pure salmon that
has in some way lost its instinct for
salt water and remains in the lakes
and rivers of Maine throughout the
year. They are very handsome, dark
above, as all fish are, palo greenish
yellow on sides and belly, and mark
ed with seallops good deal like
rattlesnake. These two schools only
belong to the State, the rest of the
property being Mr.. Palmer's own.
For these the State is building ponds
at Madison to which they will proba.
bly, be removed during the current
month. i
OREGON SALMON
occupy the first of the series of out.
door ponds, being the species that has
been put upon the market, canned,
so extensively. They were Matched
in October last, and have attained
length Of from four to seven inches.
The salmon kinds are not so fierce as
the trout, which occupy the next
pond, arc quieter, not SO shy, and are
considered more gamey. The COM
mon
BROOK TROUT
in the second pond lay concealed
under the stones and water weed,
aud We're hard to get good sight of.
They were Matched in February, aud
were perhaps 81 inches long. The
other ponds contained larger fish of
all these varieties, some of them three
years or more old. They lay conceal
ed in the holes at the bottom of wa
ter too deep to see through, and would
not come out, with strangers present,
even to feed.
THE PRICES
at which the fry are sold vary with
their age. The eggs sell at five dol
lars per thousand. Young fish when
they begin to swim and gather food
are held at ten dollars. From this
point onward the figures are graded
in proportion to their fitness for the
table. The latter are disposed of 10
such as choose to pay the cost, at
fifty cents pound.
Mr.. Palmer has been
THIRTEEN YEARS
in this business in this neighbor>
hood, aud has used the present sys-
TEN of ponds some eight of them.
His sales of eggs include orders from
Tennessee, Montana and Colorado,
and he claims that eggs can be-
packed for England if ordered. and
safe live delivery guaranteed They
are put mp in wet moss, and carry
without risk One part Of the ponds
must not be omitted, and that il
THE SPAWNING RACE.
This is a box set into the ground,
eighteen inches square, and twenty
or moro feet long The water flows
quickly through il, and the top is
covered with Stat grating which
largely shuts out the light. At the
proper time the fish go from the
pohus Up lntO lnls expecting TO ma
a quiet lace. Gates arc then shut
down to prevent their egross, the
gratings are taken off, the fish taken
out with dip-net, the eggs then go
into the patching troughs described
above.
The Importance of
STOCKING RIVERS AND STREAMS
with food. and making the wator IS
well as the land aid in supporting
our population can not be over-esti-
mated. There is no care required,
no feeding, no tiilage, no harvest
hands, no outlay whatever except
the first cost. The crop is sure, is
nourishing, is abundant, and volnn-
teers may always be found TO gather
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