Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-06
tn IL FATHER OF FIsH-CULTURE.
seth Green's ideas About the FIN
my Tribe and Some OF His va
rIed Experiences.

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tire world, and his reply indicates
the extent of his labors.
"When l was quite young," he
continued, 81 would lie on the
| limbs of trees that reached out over
the water entire afternoons watch
ing the movements of the fish and
studying their habits. In this way
| / discovered many characteristics
which were before unknown.
saw, as every observer must see
! the destructive elements that are
| warning against fish, and / realized
that unless something was done,
the life in the streams of this c0un-
try would become extinct. Tocoun'
| teract this disastrous end became
my life work, and l am happy t.
say | have seen its accomplish
| ment."
"Were you successful on the
start ?"
"No, indeed. Up to that time
al! artificial attempts to hatch ana
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
lam able TO hatch and raise fully
seventy-five per cent of all spawn"
Enormous Why, that is a lar
ger percentage than either Vegeta-
BILE or animal Kingdoms produce ina
natural condition. IA
ssI know it, but we exercise the
greatest care in the start, and guard
the little fellows until they become
able to care for themselves"
The foregoing conversation oc-
Cured at Caledonia where the rep
reSentatiye of this paper was pay
ing visit to the state fish hatcher
les. 1t has been his privilege to
report very many interesting sights
within the past twenty-five years,
but the view presented here eX-
ceeds in interest anything ever be-
fore 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 pond this
wear and there seemed to be as
MANY afterward as before. We
have nearly every variety OF the
trout family and many hybrids.o a
"You speak of hybrids, Mr..
Green. What do you mean by
that ?"
Il have experimental for years
i'm crossing the breed of the various
fish and am still working upon il.
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
brood trout and one quarter 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 aud lakes, develops
Vermillion spots on his sides, rises
readily to a fly, is far more vigorous
and fully Oae-third larger than Or
binary 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
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 investi-
gators who, from q rich and life
long experience, bring great benefit
to the world. Let the reader inn
agine a strong and stalWart frame,
by head strongly re-
that of Socrates, and COW
cred with a white silky beard and
luxuriant gray hair. Seth Green,
the father OF fish culture, is Il pic
ture of health, and the reporter
could not help remarking so.
"If you had seen me the last win
ter and spring, young man, you
might have thought differently"
said the veteran.
Chow is that ? One would think,
to look at you, That sickness was
of which you knew moth
ing"
"And so il was until last winter.
| went down into Florida in the
fall to see what kind of fish they
had i'm that state and study their
habits, and was attacked with ma
laria in its severest form, aud when
came home L realized for the first
time in my life, that l was sick.
Ny symptoms were terrible. / had
dull, aching pains in my head,
limbs and around my back. My
appetite was wholly gone, and [
felt a lack of energy such as l had
often heard described but had new
er experienced. Any one who has
ever had a severe attack Of malaria
can appreciate my condition. l
went to bed and remained there all
the spring. and if there ever was a
sick man / was the one"
at seems hardly possible. How
did you come to recover so COM
pletely?"
"My brother, who had been af-
flicted by a severe kidney trouble
and threatened with Bright's dis
ease was completely cured by rem
edy in which l had great confidence.
therefore tried the same remedy
for my malaria and am happy to
say am well man to-day and |
the fundamentally of
Safe Cure, which be-
lieve to be one of the most valuable |
of medicines. Indeed, | see it is
endorsed by the United States med
lcal college of New York, and that
DIR. Gum, dean of that institution,
has written a long article concern
ing its value"
"And are you now as well as for
merly"
apparently so. 1 keep the rem
edy on hand all the while though
and do not hesitate to recommend |
It to Others"
"One question more. How many
ponds of fish have you here and
how are they divided ?"
"Well, we have 43 ponds which
are divided up as follows: % ponds
Of brook trout, 9 ponds of salmon
trout, 4 of McCloud river or rain
BOW trout, 2 ponds of German trout
of California mountain trout, 2
ponds of hybrids, of One-quarter
salmon and three-quarters brook
trout, ponds of gold fish, and l
pond of Carp. Then we have what
we call the centennial pond or hap
py family consisting of crosses of
lifferent fish, including Kennebec
Land Locked salmon, Cal
fOrnio Saln1on brook front salmon |