The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-10-13
THE FATHER OF FISH CULTURE.


(Turf, Field aud Farm)
How did you ever come TO devise this
scheme?"
~ have been working at it ever since
| was large enough to bend a pin"
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
labOrs.
When / was quite young" he con-
tinued, 81 would lie Oh the limbs Of
that reached out over the water entire
the fish and studying their habits. In
this way / discovered many character
istiCs which were before unknown. I
saw, as every observer must see, the de-
structive 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 disastrous
end became my life work, and | am
happy to say / have seer its 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 / 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-five per cent. o fall spawn"
Enormous! Why that is a larger per-
centage than cit her the vegetable or an
imal kingd"' ~Sproduce ina 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. 1t 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.. Green?"
"As we have never attempted to count
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 that2"
81 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 a 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 hab.
it's of the brook trout, lives in both
streams and lakes, develops yermillion
spots on his sides, rises readily to a fly,
is far more vigorous and fully one-third
larger than the ordinary brook trout of
the same age. The possibilities of de-
yelopmnt 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
OF the lew investigators who, from q rich
and lifelong experience, bring great
benefit to the world. Let the reader NJ
a CINE q strong and stalwart frame, sur
IN ounted by a head strongly resembling
bitht III ROtIhlCG yin tof0lOa Wv g AiANS
silky beard and luxuriant gray hair. Seth
Green, the father offisn culture, is a pic
ture of health, and the reporter could
not help re~marking SO.
"If 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 rothing."
"And so it was unsn last winter. / went
down into Florida in the fall to see what
kind of fish they had in that state and
study their i1auits anu was attacked with
malaria in lis sl,verest form, and when /
came home / realized for the first time
in my life, that ! was sick. My symp-
toms were terrible, | had dull. aching
pains in my head, limbs aud around my
back. My appetite was wholly gone, and
/ felt a lack Of energy such as | a oft
en- heard described but had ex-
~pefienced. Any one who has ever
had a severe attack of malaria can appre-
ciate my condition. / went to bed and re-
NAMED there all the spring, and If there
ever was q sick man | was the one."
1T seems hardly possible. How did
you come to ecover SO completely"
my brother. who had been afflicted
by a severe kidney trouble and threat
ened with Bright's disease was COM
pleteIy cured by q remedy in which 1
had great confidence. I therefore tried
the same remedy for my malaria and am
happy to say | am q well man to-day and
through the fundamentally OF Warmers
Safe Cure, which I believe to be one of
the most valuable ofmadicines. Indeed,
j see it is endorsed by the United States
medical college of New York, and that
Dir. Gum. dean Of that institution, has
written = long article concerning its val
ue.n
"And are you now as well as former
Tyr"