Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-09-07
WHOLE NO. 1742.
THE FISH PONDS OF A. PALMER
AT B0SO0BEL.
How the Ffnny Tribe Live and What They
Bat Where they tome From, and What
They are Like.
fFrom the Muscoda News.

How the Ffnny Tribe Live and What They
Eat Where they tome From, and What
They are Like.
From the Muscoda News
Fish breeding has for years been
under discussion in America, and
has Seen gaining ground steadily in
popular appreciation and favor.
Where maLy of us as boys used to
angie with Il home-cut rod and "min-
ME" hook for sinners, the sportsmen
now fingers with reel and basket,
every now and then landing great
speckled beauties of trout or the
darker aud sturdier bodied bass
There is point of economy IN this,
for the long journey into the wilder
ness is saved, with all its attendant
expense, and the pleasure seeker has
only to cross the hill and whip the
brook that flows from the moss
rooted spring house where he used
surreptitiously to dip his fingers in
the cream and lick them off in early
hoyhood There il another point
too, and a grea one in tins fish rails
ing by hand.
AS A NATION.
we eat too little fish food, The care
and rush and worry Of business are
overtaxing us all, and we are worn
out and haggard in body and rest
less and nervous in mind before we
reach our prime. TO help carry the
burdens Americans take upon them>
selves in the desire to prove as capa-
bic business men as those about
them many call in the artificial slim
ulus of liquor, and wind up in a
drunkard's grave instead Of on the
heights OF success. With the stock
ing Of our streams with good table
lish, with reduced prices and improv-
ed quality,
A FISH DIET
would be far more general. It's pc
culiar adv antagos lie in tho uourisb-
ment such diet , fl ,rds tho brain,
through its h1sphorous. We may
be too sanguine, but it is our earnest
that more general use of
fish at table would do mach 10 stay
the curse that is sweeping seventy
thousand men yearly into the tomb.
Waving the question OF temperance
however, there is an appetizing sug-
gestiveness in the warm delicate per-
fume of freshly baked trout or sal
mon, as it is waited through the
doorway from the eating room
where you expect momeutarily to
make its closer acquaintance, which
alone would make every lover of
good eating favor any and all legiti-
mate means for its repetition at fire.
quent intervals. Your Imagination
notes the lightDess Of the rnre
creamy or yellow flesh as it flakes
off under the knife, and imagines
with almost distracting Vividness
ho 81 a thousand favors appear and
vanish like shadows af dream as it
melts in your mouth, leaving you
only the more keen for another taste.
And when the supreme moment does
actually come, how far the expert
ence transcends-but enough. There
be men who cannot appreciate baked
and they will scoff. We will
proceed at once 30 visit
MIR. PALMER's POND
These are seven in number, beside
the Matching house, and contain fish
Of every size up to fifteen or seven>
teen inches. The water comes from
q spring and the overflow of each
pond is led into the next until it eso
capes at the end of the series. Each
pond contains thousands of fish, and
when food is thrown to them the
water seems to be perfectly alive
with them. Their dark backs and
cleaning sides presents a curious
sight as they dart swiftly hither and
yon in a confused mass and the sur
face of the water as they "break"
presents its usual appearance in a
heavy rain storm.
IN TIE MATCHING HOUSE
are troughs of zinc, III which the eggs
are Matched. These are some twelve
feet long by eighteen inches wide and
perhaps six inches high. Every foot
or more an upright ridge an inch in
height runs across the trough, and in
the center of the pockets made by
these are tufts of clay sod or water
grasses. There is always more or less
tendency to fungus growth on fish,
and they keep it down by scraping in
and out among the roots aud against
the clay. Parties who have kept
gold fish viii! remember the black
spots and splotches that made their
on them, and grew in
size whenever the water remained
a little longer than COM
mon. The water comes into these
in a stream nearly an inch in
diameter, and flows down a gentle
incline about an inch and half
in the length of the trough, and
out through fine wire netting The
quantity of water determines the
number of fish that each trough will
contain.
THE FERTILE EGGS
are placed in these troughs and re-
quire no further care or attention ex-
cept taking out those which turn
white and thus prove themselves dead
until the young fish make their APP
pearance, usually in about six weeks.
They lie quietly on the bottom of the
trough tor abouttwo months, deriving
their nourishment from the yolk sac
which remains attached TO them. At
this ace they begin moving about in