Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-11
THE FATHER OF FIsH.CULTURE.
Seth Green's Ideas About the Finny
Tribe and Some of His Varied Ex-
personUes.
Turf, Field and Farm


this scheme p
have been working at it ever since
was large enough 10 bend a pin"
The above remark was addressed to
Mr.. Seth Green, the veteran fish cultur-
list, who Is known to the entire world,
ana his reply indicates the extent of his
labors.'
When | was quite young he con-
tinued, would lie on the limbs of
trees that reached out over the water
entire afternoons, watching the move
ments of the fish and studying their
habits, In this way l discovered many
/ characteristics which Were before I'M
! known | saw as every observer must
see the destructive 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 counteraCt this dis
astrous end became my life work. and
am happy TO say | have seen its accomp-
lshment"
Were you successful on the start ?"
No, indeed. Up to that time all ar
tificial 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 a careful
and tedious one but / finally succeeded.
and to-day am able TO hatch and raise
fully seventy-tiye per cent of all
spawn
Enormous! Why, that is larger
! percentage than eitl er the vegetable or
animal kingdoms produce in a natural
condition"
Il know it, but we exercise the great
est care in the start, and guard the little
fellows 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 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 in
terest anything ever before attempted
How many fish are there in those
ponds, Mr.. Green -
LAS we have never attempted to count
them, it will be impossible to say They
I extend way up into the millions, though.
1 We shipped over three millions out OF
! the ponds 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? "
4 have experimental for years
1 in crossing the breed of the various fish
and am tillworking upon it. We cross
/ the female salmon trout with the male
/ brook trout, aud thus produce q hybrid
/ Then we cross the hybrid with the brook
| trout, which gives us three-quarter brook
/ trout and one-quarter salmon trout This
/ makes one of the finest fishes in the
/ world. He has all the habits of tho
/ brook trout, lives in both streams and
/ lakes, develops vermillion spots on his
sides, rises readily to a fly, is far more
vigorous and fully one-thrd larger than
/ ordinary brook trout of the same age
The possibilities of development in the
/ fish world are great, and we are rapidly
ascertaining what they are.
/ As the man OF news watched the coun-
! tenance of Mr.. Green while he was civ.
ing the above account he could not but
feel that he was in the presence of one
( of the few investigators who. from a
rich and lifelong experience bring great
/ benefit to the world Let the reader
imagine a strong and stalwart frame.
surmounted by head strongly resem-
bling that of Socrates. and covered with
q white silky beard and luxuriaut gray
hair. Seth Green, the father Of fish
culture, Is a picture of health, and the
reporter could not help remarking 50
IF you had seen me the last winter
and spring, young man, you might have
/ thought differently said the veteran
How is thatI One would think 10
look at you, that sickness was something
OF 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 l came home | realized for the first
time in my life, that | was sick. Ny
symptoms were terrible. | had dull,
aching pains in my head, limbs, and
around my back. My appetite was
/ wholly gone and l felt lack of energy
such as / had often heard described, but
had never experienced. Any one who
has ever had a severe attack OF malaria
can appreciate my condition. | went to
/ bed and remained there all the spring.
and if there ever was a sick man | was
the one"
1t seems hardly possible. How did
| you come to recover so completelyY
-" Ny brother, who had been afflicted
4 by severe kidney trouble and threat
eued with Brights disease, was COM
| pletely cured by a remedy in which l
/ had great confidence. | therefore tried
/ the same remedy for my malaria, and
am happy to say ara awell man to-day,
! and through the fundamentally Of
4 Warmers Safe Cure, which | believe TO
be- one Of the most valuable of medi-
cines Indeed. see it is endorsed by the
4 United States medical college Of New
York and that DR.. Gum, dean Of that
institution, has written a long article
concerning its value
And are you now as well as for
I merly%
Apparently so. 4 keep the remedy
on Land all the while, though, and do
I not hesitate TO recommend it 10 others
One question more How many
/ ponds Of fish have you here, and how are
/ they divided:'
Well. we have As ponds which are
I divided mp as follows: % ponds Of
brook trout, . ponds Of salmon trout
! of McCloud river or rainbow trout
1 ponds OF German trout. Of California
mountain trout ponds of hybrids, q
I of One-Quarter salmon and three-uuar-