Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-12
/ THE FATHER OF FISH CULTURE.
Seth Green's Ideas About. the F'inuy
Tribe and Some or His Varied Ex-

Tribe and Some OF His Varied E1-
periences. s.sss
(THrf, Field and Farm.) S= 81 $zS @ e.
How did you ever come to devise this
schene?n I: <s55. J.,$ p s>.,7
81 have been working at it ever since
was large enough to bend pin."' .>.5
The above remark was addressed to
Mr.. Seth Green, the veteran fish cul-
turist, who is known to the entire world ,
and his reply indicates the extent Of his
iabors. 3
when I was quite young" he con-
tinued, u would lie on the limbs oftrees
that reached out over the water entire
afternoons watching the movements OF
the fish and studying their habits. In
this way ] discovered many character
istics which were before unknown. T
saw, as every observer must see, the de-
strucEive elements that are warning
against fish, and realized that unless
something were done, the life in the
streams of this country would become
extinct. To counterfeit this disastrous
end became my life work, and I am
happy to say have seen it's accomplish
ment."
"Wele you successful on the start?"
mo, indeed. Up to that time all arti.
fetal attempts to hatch and raise fish
from the spawn had failed, and l was
compelled to experiment. in an entirely
new manner. The work was q careful
and tedious one, but I finally succeeded
and to day am able to hatch and raise
fully seventy-tive per cent Of all spawn"
Enormous! Why that is larger per-
centage than cit her the vegetable or an
imal kingdoms reduce in a natural con-
dition."
Il know it, but we exercise the great
est care in the start, and guard the lit le
fellows until they become able 10 care
for themselves"
The foregoing conversation occurred
at Caledonia where the representative
of this paper was paying a visit to the
state fish hatcheries. It has been his
privilege to report very many interest
ing sights within the past twenty-five
years, but the view presented here ex-
ceeds in interest anything ever before
attempted.
"How many fish are there in those
ponds, Mr.. Grecn?"
GAS we have never attempted to coun
them it will be impossible to say. They ex-
tend way up into millions though. We
shipped over three millions cut Of the
pond this year and there seemed to be as
many afterward as before. We have
nearly every variety of the trout family
and many hybrids.
you speak of hybrids, Mr.. Green,
What do you mean by that?''
II have experimental for years in
crossing the breed of the various fish and
am still working upon it. We cross
the female salmon trout with the male
brook trout, and thus produce hybrid.
Then we cross the hybrid with the brook
trout, which gives us three-Quarter
brook trout and one-euarter salmon
trout. This makes one of the finest
fishes in the world. He has all the hao-
its of the brook trout, lives in both
streams and lakes, develops vermillion
spots on his sides, rises readily to fly,
is far more vigorous and fully one-third
larger than the ordinary brook trout of
the same age. The possibilities of de-
velopmnt in the fish world are great aud
we are rapidly ascertaining what they
are"
As the man OF news watched the coun-
tenance of Mr.. Green while be was Civ
ing the above account, he could not but
feel that he was in the presence of one
of the lew investigators who, from rich
| and lifelong experience, bring great
benefit to the world. Let the reader j H.
CINE strong and stalwart flame, sur
N ounted by head strongly resembling
that of Socrates and covered with white
silky beard and luxuriant gray hair Seth
Green, the father Of FISH culture, is a pic
ture of health, and the reporter could
not help remarking so.
"If you had seen me the last winter
and spring, young man, you might have
thong bit differently" said the veteran.
Chow is that? One would think, to
look at you, that sickness was something
IF which you knew nothing"
"And so it was until last winter. 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 |
in my life, that I was sick. My symp~
pains in my head, limbs and around my
back. My appetite was wholly gone, and
felt lack of energy such as had Oft
en- heard described but had never ex-
perienced. Amy one who has ever
had severe attack of malaria can appre-
ciate my condition. [ went to bed and re-
manned there all the spring, and if there
ever was sick man was the one"
ut seems hardly possible. How did
you come to recover so completely"
"My brother. who had been afflicted
by severe kidney trouble and threat
ened with Bright's disease WAS COM
pletely cured by a remedy in which I
had great confidence. therefore tried
the same remedy for my malaria and am
happy to say am 6 well man to-day and
through the fundamentally Of Warmers
Safe Cure, which I believe to be one Of
the most valuable Of medicines. Indeed,
see it is endorsed BY the United States
medical college of New York, and that
DR.. Gum. dean Of that institution, has
written q long article concerning its val
ue."
"And are you now as well as former
ly?"
on hand all the while though and do not
Zone question more. How many
they divided.
"Well, we have 43 ponds which are d.
vided up az follows: % ponds of brook
trout, 2 ponds of salmon trout, of Nc
Cloud river or rainbow trout, ponds of
German trout, 3 of California mountain
trout, 2 ponds of hybrids, 4 of one-quar-
ter salmon and three-Quarters brook
trout, 2 ponds of gold fish, and pond
of carp. Then we have what we call the
centennial pond or happy family con-
sisting of crosses of different fish, inc]u-
ding Kennebec salmon, Land Locked SAL
mon, California salmon, brook trout, SAL
naon trout and hybrids. These fish range
in size from minnows to l8-pounders,
and in age from one-and-one-half months
to eleven years., I forgot to say also,
that we have hospital pond, which is
entirely empty, which speaks pretty
we'll for community of many millions,
4l,o NJ fish cy,lf1ro