The Mineral argus., 1883-11-01
FATHER oF FISH CULTURE.

Green's Ideas About the Finny
De and Some OF His Varied Ex-
Iences.
/ Field and Farm.)
" did you ever come TO devise this
feY7
lave been working at it ever since
.lF4e enough TO bend a pin"
. s6oye remark was addressed TO
seth Green, the veteran fish cul-
40 is known TO the entire world,
reply indicates the extent Of his
zen was quite young" he con-
Il would lie on the limbs oftrees
rsached out over the water entire
roons watching the movements of
h and studying their habits. In
sy discovered many character
/ vhich were before unknown. |
Y every observer must see, the de-
In elements that are warning
Ia fish, and l realized that unless
Ihing were done, the life in the
II OF this country would become
To counteIact this disastrous
5ecame my life work, and am
&c say ! have seen its accomplish
ae YOU successful on the start?"
indeed. Up to that time all arti-
4 Attempts 10 hatch and raise fish
4 the spawn bad failed, and l was
.Eelled to experiment in an entirely
manner. The work was a careful
|Fdious one, but / finally Succeeded
|eday j am able to hatch and raise
twenty-five per cent. ofall spawn."
4 |rormousl Why that is a larger per-
re than cit her the vegetable or an
. Kingdoms p rOduce in a natural con-
II"
T ipow il, but we exercise the great
ne in the start, and guard the lit le
Is until they become able 10 care
emselves."
foregoing conversation occurred
edonia where the representative
paper was paying a visit to the
| fsh hatcheries. 1t has been his
eye to report very many interest
ghts within the past twenty-five
s but the view presented here ex-
d in interest anything ever before
|upted.
.E5r many fish are there in those
Mr.. Green"
We have never attempted to count
|nwill be impossible to say. They eX-
Eay up into millions though. We
bed over three millions cut of the
1 Ibis year and there seemed to be as
afterward as before. We have
" every variety Of the trout family
rany hybrids.
i Iou speak of hybrids, Mr.. Green,
DO you mean by that2"
lave experimental for years in
Ing the breed Of the various fish and
sill working upon it. We cross
.'smale salmon trout with the male
trout, and thus produce a hybrid.
We cross the hybrid with the brook
which gives us three-quarter
trout and one-Quarter salmon
This makes one Of the finest
in the world. lie has all the hab-
4 y the brook trout, lives in both
ms and lakes, develops vermillion
on his sides, rises readily to a fly,
rnOre vigorous and fully one-third
f than the ordinary brook trout of
zme age. The possibilities OF de-
.pmnt in the fish world are great and
lFs rapidly ascertaining what they
the man Of news watched the cOun-
be Of Mr.. Green while he was Civ
Ihe above account, he could not but
that he was in the presence Of one
leW Investigators who, from a rich
. he-lOng experience, bring great
. .f6t 10 the world. Let the reader n
i strong and stalwart flame, sur
Ented by a head strongly resembling
Of Socrates and covered with white
beard and luxuriant gray hair. Seth
y, the father of fish culture, is a pic
Of health, and the reporter could
lelp remarking so.
| you had seen me the last winter
spring, young man, you might have
gght differently" said tie veteran.
low is that3 One would think, to
a. you, that sickness was something
lich you knew nothing"
lld SD It was until last winter. / went
into Florida in the fall to see what
Of fish they had IN that state and
their habits and was attacked with
ria In its severest form, and when ]
E home ! realized for the first time
. p Tie, that / was sick. My symp'
kWerg terrible, / had dull. aching
IN my head, limbs ard around my
Nyappeiite was wholly gone, and
lack Of energy such as / had Oft
card described but mad never OK
anced. ANY one Who has ever
lsevere attack of malaria can appre'
nay condition. went b. bed and re-
lsd there all the sprirg, and If ;here
vas a sick man / was the one"
seems hardly possible. How did
.9me 10 recover so completely"
~ brother, who had been afflicted
severe kidney trouble aud threat
eth Brghts disease was com
|Hy cured by a remedy ~ which
peat confidence. l harefore tried
ALe remedy for my malaria and am
70 say am a well man to-day and
sh the instruUe u'aiity Of Warmers
llre, which . 3eiieve TO be one Of
-oit valuable Ji medicines. Indeed,
. ls endorsed bv the United States
,al college Of New York, and that
5lnn. dean Of that institution, has
el long article concerning its val