Milford chronicle., 1883-10-19
THE FATHER OF FISH CULTURE.
Soih Green's Ideas About the Finny
Tribe and Some of His Varied
Y d eriemrea.

WIZ. ELeId - E1rm.


How did you ever come TO devise thh
schemem
" I 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 indi-
[ Gates the extent of his labOrs
when / was quite young, he continued,
/ would lie on the limbs of trees that
| reached out over the water entire afternoons,
watching the movements Of fish and studying
their habits In this way discovered many
characteristics which were before unknown
/ | saw, as every observer must see, the de
structive elements that are warning against
| fish, and realized that unless something waa
! done the life in the streams OF this country
| would become extinct. To Counteract this
! disastrous end became my lite-work, and l
am happy to say that have seen its accom-
| plishment.
''Were you successful on the start:1
No, indeed Up TO that time all artificial
! attempts to hatch and raise fish from The
| spawn had failed, and l was compelled TO ex-
| pertinent 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-tive per cent. Of
Enormous Why, that is larger per
centage than either the vegetable or
animal kingdoms produce in natural con
ditiOn.n
L know it. but we exercise the greatest
care in the start, and guard the little fellows
until they become able to care for them
Selves
The FOREGOING conversation occurred az
Caledonia where the raprese tarive Of this
paper was paying visit to the state fsh
hatCharies 1t has been his privilege to re-
port very many inteTesting sights within the
past twenty-five years, but the view pre-
sentei 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 viii be impossible to say. They ex-
tend way up in the millions chou h. We
shipped over three millions ont 1T the ponds
this year and there seemed to be as many az
terward as before. We have nearly every
variety of the trout family and many hy'
bri1s"
q" You speal, of hybriis, Mr.. Green. What
do You mean by that
Il have experimental for years in cross
ing 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 hv-
brid 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 he habits 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 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 cOunte-
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 inves-
tigatOrs VINO, from a rich and lifelong expe-
rience bring great benefit to the world Let
the reader imagine strong and stalwart
frame surm1uutel by a head strongly re-
senbling that of Socrates and covered with
a white silky beard and luXuTiant gray hair.
Seth Green, the father of fish culture, is a
picture of health, and the reporter could not
help remarkiEg 50.
'' 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 som thing Of which
you knew nothing
And so it was until last winter / went
down into Florida in the fall to sec 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 l re-
allied for the first time in my life that was
SICK Ny symptoms were terrible. I had
dull, aching pains in my head. limbs ana
around my back. My appetite was wholly
gone and | felt lack of energy suehas / had
often heard described but had never expert
enced. Any one who has ever had a severe
attack of malaria can appreciate my condi-
tion. l went to bed and remained there an
spring' and if there ever was sick man 1
was the one
1t seems hardly possible How did YOU
come to recover so completely"
My brother, who had been afflicted by a
evere kidney trouble and threatened with
3rights disease, was completely cured by
r1rr er.r 81. L. %
therefore tried the same remedy for my ma
ARIA and am happy to say [ am a well man
o-day, and through the lnstrumentalitv of
n aTners Safe Cure, which beGeve to be one
# the most valuable of medicine Indeed. 1
&c it is indorsed by the United States medi-
al college of New York, and that Dr. Gum,
lean of that institution, has written a long
rticle concerning its value
- And are you now as well as fcrmerlyl"
apparently so. keep the remedy on
and all the while, though, and do not hes-
ate to recommend it to others
" One question more. How many ponds %
hb1ve you here, and how are they dividedP
Wen, we have forty three ponds which
re divided CpQs follows: Twenty-Five ponds
# brook trout. two ponds of salmon trout,
our IT McClOud riverOr rainbow trout. two
)onds of German trout three of Califor
lia mountain trout. two ponds of
II brids. four Of One-quarter salmon
md three-luarters brook trout two ponds
e gold fish and one pond of Carp Then we
ave what we call the centennial pond or
happy family consisting of crossas of diff
erent fish. including Kennebec salmon, Land
.ocked salmon, California salmon, brook
rOut, salmon trout ant hybIi1, These fish
ange in size from minnows to eighteen
ounders. and in age from one and one half
lonths to eleven wears. forgot 10
nv als1 that we have q hOspi al
ond, which is entirely empty. W hi h speaks
Tet.y wei for a community Of many mil
ons Indeed the hoe secret Of fish culture
m be Ummed up in four things Imnregna
90 Wa ar. Pea u food,
lenty Of pure water and cleanliness