Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-20
THE FArhER OF F1sH.CulruRE.

THE FAwhER OF FISH.CULTURE.
sstA Green's ideas About tn. Finny Tribe
ana SONS ~ His Varied Ex-
Y~riences.
fyurf, Tssli and Farm,l
How did you ever come to devise this
II have been working at it ever since I
was large enough to bend a PIN"
Ihe above remark was addressed to Mr..
Seth Green, the veteran fish culturist, who
IS known to the entire world, and his reply
indicates the extent Of his labors.
+;n when l was quite young" he con-
that reached out over the water entire
afternoons watching the movements of the
fish and studying their habits. In this way
discovered many characteristics which
were before unknown. saw, as every OBJ.
server must see, the destructive elements
that are warning against fish, and I real
ICED that unless something were done, the
life in the streams of this country would
become extinct. To counterfeit this disas.
trous end became my life work, md l am
happy to say 1 have seen its accomplish
"Were you successful on the start?"
mo, indeed. Up to that time all arti-
hcial attempts to hatch and raise fish from
the spawn had failed, and l was compelled
to experiment in an entirely new manner.
u -WOIh was u CdT0Lul anu Jealous O00s
but l finally succeeded, and to-day 1 am
able to hatch and raise fully seventy.ive
per cent. of all spawn"
Enormous! Why, that is a larger per
centage than either the vegetable or ami
aif;o kingdoms produce in a natural con-
~ know it, but we exercise the greatest
care in the START, and guard the little fel.
lows until they become able to care for
themselves"
The foregoing conversation occurred at
Caledonia, where the representative of this
Hatcheries. 1t has been his privilege to
report very many interesting sights within
the past twenty-five years, but the view
presented here exceeds in interest anything
ever before attempted.
"How many fish are there in those ponds.
Mr.. Greene"
Gas we have never attempted to count
them it will be impossible to say. They
extend way up into the millions though.
We shipped over three millions out of the
ponds this year, and there seemed to be as
many afterward as before. We have near:
many hybrids."
"You speak Of hybrids, MI. Green. What
do you mean by that?"
"Ihave experimental for years in cross
ing the breed ofthe various fish, and am still
working upon it. We cross the female sal
| " O1ouU" q olOoh OAS0oS oAAu
thus produce a hybrid. Then we cross the
hybrid with the brook trout, which gives
us ~three-quarter brook trout and one quar-.
ter salmon trout. This makes n of the
finest fishes in the world. He has all the
habits of the brook trout, lives in both
spots on his sides, rises readily to a fly. is
far more vigorous and fully one-third
larger than ordinary brook trout of the
same age: The possibilities of develop
ment in the fish world are great, and we
are rapidly ascertaining what they are"
AS the man of news watched the count
nance of Mr.. Green while he was giving
the above account, he could not but feel
that he was nthe presence of one of the few
investigators who, from q rich and life
world. Let the reader imagine a strong
and stalwart frame, surmounted by u head
strongly resembling that of Socrates, and
covered with a white, silky beard II lux
uriant gray hair. Seth Green, the father
OF fish culture, is a picture Of health, and
"If you had seen me the last winter and
thought differently" said the veteran.
elbow is that? One would think, to look
ut you, that sickness was something of
which you knew nothing"
"And so it was until last winter I went
down into Florida in the fall to see what
kind of fish they had in that State and
study their habits, and was attacked with
malaria in its severest form, and when !
am home l realized for the first time in
my life that l was sick. My symptoms
my head, limbs and around my back. Ny
appetite was wholly gone, and l felt a lack
o. energy such as [ had oftcn heard de-
scribed but had never experienced. Any
one who has ever had a severe attack of
malaria can appreciate my condition.
want to had onJ rarrooiOo1 fbaro oil tho
spring, and if there ever was a sick man l
was the one."
cit seems hardly possible. How did you
come to recover so complstelyw
"My brother, who had been afflicted by q
severe kidney trouble and threatened with
Bright's disease, was completely cured by
a remedy in which l had great confidence.
I therefore tried the same remedy for my
malaria and am happy to say I am a well
man to-day and through the instrumen.
1ality Of Warmers Safe Cure, which l be-
lieve to be one of the mostvaluable of med
icines. Indeed, 1 see it is endorsed by the
United States Medical College of New
York, and that DR.. Gum, dean of that in
stitution, has written a long article con-
corning its value"
Typ
Apparently so. 1 keep the remedy on
and all the while though, and do not hest
tate to recommend it to Others"
One question more: How many ponds
of fish have you here and how are they di
vided"
"Well, we have 43 ponds, which are di
vided up as follows: Twenty-Five ponds
of brook trout, 9 ponds of salmon trout, 4
of McCloud river or rainbow trout,
, ponds OF German trout, 8 of California
mountain trout, 2 ponds Of hybrids, 4 OF
~one-quarter salmon and t~hree-quarters
> brook trout, 2 ponds OF gold fish, and ]
pond of Carp. Then we lave what we call
the Centennial pond or happy family,
consisting of crosses of different fish, in
Guiding Kennebec salmon, Land Locked
salmon, California salmon, brook trout
salmon trout and hybrids. These fist
range in size from minnows to %1S-pound'
ers, and in age from one.and-one-hal
months to eleven years. I forgot to say
also, that we have Il hospital pond, which
is entirely empty, which speaks pretty
well for a community Of many millions