The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-10-06
THE FATHER OF FISH CULTURE.
Seth Green's Ideas About the Finny
Tribe and Some of His Varied
Experiments
tTf FIeLd ard Farm. ]

" have been working at it evel since
was large enough to bend PIN"
ihc above remark was addressed to
Mr.. seth Green, the veteranlfsh cultur-
list, who is known to the entire world,
and his reply indicates the extent of his
l&1ors,
" hen ! was quite young" be con-
tnuci, " I would lie on the limbs of
tees that reached out over the water
entire afternoons watching the move
hcnts Of the fish and studying their
habits. In this way | discovered many
chGactc, sites which were before I'M
known. | saw, as every observer must
sec, the destructive elements that are
warning against fish, and l realized that
unless something were done, the life in
the streams of this country would be-
come extinct. To counterfeit Shs disas-
irons end become my life work, and am
Happy to say l have seen its accomplish
r2crt.''
Were you successful on the start o.
No, indeed. Up to that time all ar
tiiic;al attempts to hatch and raise fish
nom The spawn had failed, and was
compelled TO experiment in an entirely
lew manner The work was careful
and tedious one, but finally succeeded,
ami to-day am able to hatch and raise
fully seventyfve per cent of all spawn"
Enormous. Why, that is larger
percentage than either the vegetable or
animal kingdoms produce in natural
condition."
Il know it, but we exercise the great
est care il the start, and guard the fell
lows until they become able to care for
themselves
The foregoing conversation occurred at
Caledonia where the representative of
]hiS paper was paying visit to the State
fish h"tChcricS. 1t has been his privi-
Ie%e 10 report very many interesting
sights within the past twenty-five years,
but the view presented here exceeds in
interest anything ever before attempted.
How many fish are there in those
ponds, Mr.. Greene
As We have never attempted to count
them it viii be impossible to say. They
extend way up into the millions though.
We shipped over three millions out of
he bonds this year and there seemed to
'e ,'s 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 90
q have experimental for years in
rossing 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 hybrid.
Then we cross the hybrid with the brook
trout. which gives Us three-quarter brook
trooJ and one. quarter salmon trout. This
makes one of the finest fishes in the
world. He has all the habits of the
brock trout. lives in both streams and
lakes, develops vermillion spots on his
sites, rises readily to a fly, is far more
ri',or, Us aud 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
-*certa:nias what they are"
is the man Of news watched the coun-
-Gnannc Of Mr.. Green while he was Civ
ing he above account, he could not but
Zee. that he wGts in the presence of one
Of the few investigators who, from a
lich and lifelong experience, bring great
BENEFITS 10 the world. Let the reader i'm
agiHe STRONG and stalwart frame, sur
mounted By a head strongly resembling
that Of Socrates, and covered with white
silky beard and luxuriant gray hair.
Seth Green, the father of fish culture, is
Il picture of health, and the reporter
could not help remarking so.
eff 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 nothing
" And so it was until last winter, Il
went down into Florida in the fall to see
yh&t kind of fish they had in that State
and study their habits and was attacked
" IN malaria in its severest form, and
when ! came home realized for the first
time in my life that l was sick. My
symptoms We're terrible. | had dull,
aching pains in my head, limbs and
around my back. My appetite was
wholly gcue, and felt lack of energy
such IS had often heard described but
bad never experienced. Any one who
has ever had a severe attack of malaria
ea1 appreciate my condition. l went to
bed and remained there all the Spring,
and Il there ever was sick man was
one
II seems hardly possible. How did
YOU come to recover SO completely ?"
NJ BROTHER who had been afflicted
by = severe kidney trouble and threaten
cd with Hright's disease was completely
cured b. Il remedy in which l had great |
] therefore tried the same
remedy f0r my malaria and am happy to |
sag am well man to-day and through |
the inst!umentality of Warmers Safe |
Cure, which believe to be one of the |
rn,c4 -, L. III, Of ,,,e1;,;poc J,Jo.l T Il
see il is endorsed by the United States |
medical college of New York, and that
Dr.. Gum, dean of that institution, has
written long article concerning its value. |
And are you now as we'll as formerly?''
apparently so. l keep the remedy on |
hand all the while though and do not |
hesitate TO recommend it to Others"
cone question more. How many ponds |
Of ish lave you here and how are they
divided -
We'll, we have 43 ponds which are
divided mp as follows % ponds of brook |
trout ponds of salmon trout, of Nc
Cloud river Of rainbow trout. ponds of |
German front. 3 of California mountain
trout. ponds Of hybrids, of one quarter
ID mon and three-quarters brook trout 2 |
ponds Of gold fish, and pond OF Carp.
Ihe.. we have what we call the centen- |
Mai pond OF happy family consisting of |
crosses of different fish, including Ken |
1ohec salmon, Land Locked salmon, Cal
itognia salmon, brook trout, salmon trout
and bybridS. These fish range in size
from munows to 1S-pounders, and in age
from Dnc-aud one-half months to eleven
years. | forgot to say, also, that we have
I hospital pond, which speaks pretty