The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-10-13
THE FATHER OF FIsH.CULTURE.
Seth Green's Ideas About the Finny Tribe
4ad Some of His Varied Ex-
uqrieuces.
Turf, Field and Farm.l

The above remark was addressed TO Mr.. |
Seth Green, the veteran fish ctlturist, who /
is known to the entire world, and his reply |
indicates the extent Of his labors.
"When l was quite young" he con-
tinued, 81 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 |
lied that unless something were done, the /
life in the streams of this country would |
become extinct. To counteract this disas- |
trous end became my life work, and am |
happy to say have seen its accomplish
ment."
"Were you successful on the startg"
"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 n careful and tedious one,
but finally succeeded, ard to-day am
| able TO hatch and raise fully seventy-five
| per cent. of all spawn"
Enormous! Why, that is a larger per
4 centage than either the vegetable or ami
| NAL kingdoms produce in "a natural con-
dition."
! ~ know it, bu5 we exercise the greatest
! care in the start, and guard the little fell
lows until they become able to care Tor
! themselves"
The foregoing conversation occurred at
! Caledonia, where the representative OF this
paper was paying visit to the State Fish
| Hatcheries. 1t has been his privilege to
| report very many interesting sights within
the past twenty-five years, hut the view
! presented here exceeds in interest anything
| ever before attempted.
-" How many fish are there in those ponds,
Mr. Green"
"As 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 "a before. We have near
! ly every variety of the trout family ana
many hybrids."
"You speak of by birds, Mr.. Green. What
do You mean by thatE
II have experimental for years in cross
ing the breed of the various fish, and am still
working upon il. We cross the female sal
mon trout with the male brook trout, and
thus produce by brid. Then we cross the
hybrid with the brook trout, which gives
US quarter brook trout and one quar-
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 siles, 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
mCelt in the fish world are great, and we
are rapidly ascertaining what they are"
As the man of news watched the counte-
nance OF Mr.. Green while he was giving
the above account, he could not but feel
that he was III the presence of one OF the few
Investigators who, from a rich and life
long experience, bring great benefit to the
world. Let the reader imagine a strOnG
and stalwart frame, surmOuaued by a head
strongly resembling that of Socrates, and
covered with II white, silky beard and lux
uriaut gray hair. Seth Green, the father
of fish culture, is picture of health, and
; "If you had seen me the last winter and
spring, young man, you might have
thought diff ,rently," said the veteran.
"How is that? One would think, to look
at you, that sickness was something of
which you knew nothing"
"And so 1t 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
came home | realized for the first time in
= my life that l was sick MY symptoms
were terrible. had dull aching pains in
my head, limbs and around my back. My
appetite was wholly gone, and telt a lack
o. energy such as | had oftcu heard de-
scribed but had never experienced. Any
: one who has ever had severe attack OF
malaria can appreciate my condition.
went to bed an / remained there all the
spring, and If there ever was sick man
was the one.o
,
come to recover so compl 'tely"
"My brother, who had been afflicted by d
severe kidney trouble and threate ned with
; BrighpS disease, was completely cured by
a remedy in wnich had great confidence
. | therefore tried the sans remedy for my
malaria and am happy to say 1 am well
man to-day and tnrough tine instrument
tality Of Warmers Safe Cure, which l be-
{ lieve to be one of the most valuable of med
. icineS. Indeed, | see it is endorsed by the
United States Medical College of New
York, and that D.. Gum, dean of that in
stitution, has written a long article con-
4 corning its value"
= And are you now as well as former
: ly"
Apparently so. keep the remedy OH
hand all the while though, and do not hest
G tase to recommend it to others"
" One question more: How many ponds
of bsh have you here and how are they di
, vidadW
i. "Well, we have AZ ponds. which are di.
vided up as follows: Twenty-Five ponds
7 of brook trout, ponds of salmon trout, 4
! of McCloud river or rainbow trout,
ponds of German trout, of California
mountain trout, ponds of hybridS, 1 OF
? one quarter salmon and three-quarters
: brook trout, ponds OF gold fish, and ]
pond of Carp. Then we have what we call
l the Centennial pond or happy family,
: consisting of crosses of diff Arent fish, in
+ | Guiding kennebec salmon, Land Locked
salmon, California salmon, brook trout
, salmon trout and hybrids, These fish
range in size from minnows to 1S.pound
ers, and III age from one-and-one-hali
l months to eleven years. l forgot to say
o also, that we have u hospital pond, which
is entirely empty, which speaks pretty
well for a community of many millions
), Indeed the whole secret of the fish culture
pregnation-using no water. Plenty o.
food Plenty of pure water and cleanli