St. Landry democrat., 1883-10-20
THE FATHER OF F1sH.CULTURE.
Seth Green's Ideas About the Finny Tribe
and Some of His Varied Ex-
Deriences.
Turf. Field and Farm.1

periences.
Turf. Field and Farm.1
SHOW did you ever come to devise this
scheme!"
81 have been working at it ever since
was large enough to bend pin"
The 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.
"When I was quite young" he con-
tinued, ~ would lie on the limbs of trees
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 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, and am
happy to say ! have seen its accomplish
ment."
"Were you successful on the startH
"No, indeed. Up to that time all arti-
fetal attempts to hatch and raise fish from
the spawn had failed, and was compelled
to experiment in an entirely new manner.
The work was careful and tedious one,
but finally succeeded, and to-day am
able to hatch and raise fully seventy-five
per cent. of all spawn"
Enormous! Why, that is a larger per
centage than either the vegetable or ami
NAL kingdoms produce in a natural con-
dition."
II know it, but we exercise the greatest
care in the start, and guard the little fell
lows until they become able to care for
themselves"
The foregoing conversation occurred at
Caledonia, where the representative of this
paper was paying visit to the State Fish
uuto bos hos
report very many interesting sights within
the past twenty-five years, but the view
presented here exceeds in interest anything
ever before attempted.
SHOW many fish are there those ponds,
Mr. Greenw
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
| ly every variety Of the trout family and
| many hybrids.n
"Yo GU speak Of hybrids, MIR. Green. What
do you mean by thatF'
tsI have experimental for years in cross
| ing the breed ofthe various fish, and am still
| working upon it. We cross the female sal.
mon trout with the male brook trout, and
| thus produce hyb rid. Then we cross the
| hybrid with the brook trout, which gives
ter salmon trout. This makes one of the
| finest fishes in the world. He has all the
| habits of the brook trout, lives in both
streams and lakes, develops vermilion
| spots on his sides, rises readily to fly, is
| far more vigorous and fully one third
/ larger than ordinary brook trout OF the
| same age. The possibilities Of develop
maSat in the fish world are great, and we
/ are rapidly ascertaining what they are"
/ As the man of news watched the coun6e-
| nance of Mr.. Green while he was giving
| the above account, he could not but feel
/ that he was in the presence of one of the few
i investigators who, from q rich and ilfe-
/ long experience, bring great benefit to the
/ world. Let the reader imagine strong
/ and sta1waEt frame, surmounted by head
1 strongly resembling that Of Socrates, and
covered with q white, silky beard and lux
! uriant gray hair. Seth Green, the father
] of fish culture, is picture of health, and
the reporter could not help remarking so.
aft you had seen me the last winter and
| spring, young man, you might have
thought differently" said the veteran.
"How is that? One would think, to look
at you, that sickness was something OF
which you knew nothing"
4 Sand so it was until last winter. 1 wen
| down into Florida in the fall to see wha
1 kind of fish they had in that State anG
/ study their habits, and was attacked witf
| malaria in its severest form, and when
came home realized for the first time In
my life that was sick My symptoms
were terrible. had dull aching pains il
| my head, limbs and around my back. My
| appetite was wholly gone, and felt a lacl
OF energy such as / had often heard de
scribed but had never experienced. Any
I one who has ever had q severe attack OF
malaria can appreciate my condition.
went to bed and remained there all the
spring, and if there ever was sick man
| was the one.o
SIT seems hardly possible How did yor
| come to recover SO completely!
AMy brother, who had been afflicted by {
severe kidney trouble and threatened with
| Bright,s disease, was completely cured by
remedy In which had great confidence
therefore tried the same renaedy for my
4 malaria and am happy to say am wei
| man to-day and through the instrument
/ tality of Warmers Safe Cure, which I be.
4 ieve to be one of the moStvalnable of med
icires. Indeed, see it is endorsed by the
| United States Medical College of New
/ York, and that DR.. Gum. dean of that in
| stitution, has written long article con
| corning it's value.n
"And are you now as well as former
/ . Apparently SO. keep the remedy on
i hand all the while though, and do not hest
tate to recommend it to others"
One question more: how many ponds
| OF hsh have you mere ana now are they oi
| vided?'
.Well, we have 43 ponds. which are di-
| vided up as follows: Twenty-Five ponds
/ Of brook trout, ponds of salmon trout,
! of McCloud river or rainbow trout, {
ponds of German trout, 8 of California
! mountain trout, ponds of hybrids, OF
| one-quarter salmon and three-quarters
brook trout, ponds OF gold fish, and
the Centennial pond or happy family,
1 consisting of crosses Of different fish, in
| GLIDING Kennebec salmon, Land Locked
salmon, California salmon, brook trout
| salmon trout and hybrids. These fish
range in size from minnows to 1S.pound
months to eleven years. I forgot to say
| also, that we have hospital pond, which
l iS ontiralxr auantx which sns.aks pretty