Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-07-28
We Will Also Fish.

To catalogue, or to note serlatlm all
the advantages the South possesses for
cheaply producing the best qualities
and the enormous quantities Of the
many, many things of which she is
capable would out tax the limits Of
many numbers of the Gazette and the
abilities of any one writer. We have
from time to time mentioned some of
these, principally those which were not
as yet receiving any such large share
of attention as to entitle them to be
classed among the great products. We
now want to say few words about the
possibilities of pisciculture becoming
one of the largest of her vast industries.
Any one who will take enough interest
in this subject to make even slight
investigation can hardly fail to see the
advantages, in fact the peculiar fitness.
Let us take hasty geographical glance
at the country. Taking the coast line,
we begin at Baltimore, with the great
est oyster interest on the globe centered
here, and following the wavy line to
and around the Florida reefs, sweeping
around the horse shoe of the gulf until
we reach Corpus Christi, almost at the
gateway of the Caribbean Sea, there
is scarce an inlet, bay or shoal beach
that does not present special fitness
for the home of the fny tribe, which
might be largely remunerative, if care
fully husbanded. This seems an odd
word to use in this connection, but it
expresses the idea as well, perhaps as
any. Herring, sardine, cod, hallibut
sea bass, green turtle, lobster, oyster,
clam-oh, thousand more or less of
the choicest varieties of sea fish and
crustaceans, might be grown and cured
on the coasts.
Then taking the streams, we find
them two many to name in an article
of this character, and comprising every
thing desirable for the growth of such
fish as are peculiar to running water
from the beautiful little speckled trout
to the delicious salmon and the monster
buffalo and catfish of the Mississippi,
etc. Then, going still further inland,
there are almost numberless land blocked
lakes and fresh water ponds, many Of
them now well stocked with desirable
food fish, and capable of growing i'm
mense numbers of carp and other land
locked fish of marketable value. The
manufacture of artificial ice is now SC
easy and common that there is really
: no good reason why fish may not bt
taken and marketed all the year round
, The cities and larger towns would take
, all that could be placed on sale, and
t at prices which would well repay any
energetic and persistent shipper. There
is no good reason in the world, or gu
of it, why each farmer and plante
. may not have, either on his place, o.
close at hand, a pond which, with yer,
little or no management, would .sup
ply him with a most wholesome ant
tOothsome substitute for the inevitable
ham, bacon or chicken, which is dishet
+ up to the unexpected visitor. TIL
labor and time of catching and prepar
q ing for the table need not be more thai
e is now given to the yellow leg. True
the itinerant minister might miss tn
9 familiar drumstick, but would soon be
h come reconciled to the prospect of no
fresh fish, and it would relieve tn
&C poor mother hens of such load O
o anxiety for the future Of her chicks