The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-09-10
FISH-HATCHlNG.
A Visit to Cold Spring Harbor, Long
Island The success and Advantages OF
Fish Culture.

A Visit to Cold Spring Harbor. Long
Island The success and Advantages OF
Fish Culture.
Going from the depot at Cold Spring,
Long Island. toward the harbor, the
road winds down hill through q dwarfed
forest runs alongside whispering little
brook. and affords Climpses here and F.
there Of broad sheets Of placid water .
fringed by tangled thicSets. mill Is /
passed and several pretty residences. 4
Then. at a sudden turn, a beautiful view .
opens out of the full width OF the val /.
ley, terminating in the harbor and the .
Sound beyond. Here Is the New York 4
State Fish Hatchery. two little houses. /
From the open doors OF Doth houses
float continually aqueous sounds, rip
pies. Curgles. splashes- and diminutIye
waterfalls. Looking inside one sees big
waterproof boots moving about, with big
men in them, who do miraculous things
in the way Of squeezing themselves
among long black trOuChs, through
which crystalline currents are constantly
cour-iug swiftly Il the face Of the hill
Is a roof covering Superintendent Frank
Mathers ocean. He pumps his ocean
up there and keeps ir on tap Tor the
Matching of salt water fishes
The Superintendent IS notable man
sturdy. bushE-brCwed. with hearty
voice. sparkliu- ewes camping-out com
pIexion. and an air OF Just having arrived
from somewhere and being about 70
start back I'm q minute. He cyUrte1uS-y
opens theample dood-Cates Of his knoTl-
edge about fish and their systematized
production.
Tho man who knows anything about
fish that is not already known 10 MI.
NaUher would be difficult 10 find, for he
Is not only quite familiar with all the
astouudiugpolvsy names that seem
to grow i'm reversed proportion 70 the
E-h lHr+ IS frHr rrr1 q q with
we.rars OF the names knows their
habits. and where 10 t.1 t.=-1
In answer TO y--1r correspondent, AR
EIarber said we have uer- facilities
for Matching much fewer eggs than we
snrrI- have. The caTarltv Of the estab-
. Eshnenr should be doubled IT least
The practical usefulness OF this
method Of e-.arrinE our food supply has
+ now been demonstrated beyond question,
and it is really q matter Of serious inter
est TO all the people Of the State t-al
This hatchery should be so developed
as TO get the greatest possible good from
IL" This Is surely quite reasOnable.)
There is no place in the land so vel
adaptad bv nature as this Is Tor hatch
erv. We have an abundant, never-talL
ing supply of cold fresh water sufuclen'
to keep our thiTty-two Matching JTough'
full all the year through, II we ueele-
them so. It comes from natural sprlnE'
in that hill so surprisingly high up ina
, il is a constant wonder 10 me now lhls
springs are fed. The swift current tina
its fall supplies Is just what We want Il
certain stages OF the hatcAinS iroces7e7
Then BY means Of q pumping enEn
we can have equally handy an ample sur
, -1v Of pure salt water drawn al his
tide as required and stored in that reSei
voir Or at least, we can do 50 Nie
the intense cold does not freeze In
water solid in the pipes and plisJ lAe-
3 as il did last winter spolAnS al one re
r blow our most interesting, and. up Z
a that time highly successful, haJchLlS q
some 2, 600, 600 cod eggs.
Al the side Of the lane are wOod-poun
milk cans-the reservoir nwhlchmyralo
of tiny fishes are sent away 70 sOoc
lakes. brooks, creeks, rivers, and bays
the State.
HATCHTNG TROUT.
Nearly all the Matching is done
Winter" said Mt. Mather. Trout.
which there is most popular lNtare-
. ba,rfn spawning I'm November, ami q
/ not get through until January. We =
eggs here from some large breeul
D trout that we keep in those ponds oG
side for the purpose. ana also from u
- hatchery at Caledonia, from A44llle' "l
> from Europe.
- The eggs having been impreEnate
- change from the fahby condition
which they are eZtruded by the ieni
fish detach themselves from the bolJo
il Of the pan in which they We're gathere
and grow larger and quite hard. IN,
tbevare washed and spread upon VI
ID oSofb ba+rbinr +ravs the interSL ices
which are large enough Tor the YOU
mr. fry. as hatchcd. to drop through, leaNL
the shells on the tray.
throughout the process OF habchln
m which takes from sixty 20 eighty DAY
: according to the temperature Of {
W. Fta liz tend
st every dav 10 keep them free from Sc
be ment. to have the temperature OF L
water as cold as possible, and to n
nIatcthe current over them just right
be "W1iIe Matching is going on the wa'
ty only. covers the eggs to the depth OF
inch. but when the young Try nave
ap0eared. its depth is increased 10 j
inches. Zach little trout when hatch
has an abdominal sack OF Uutrlme
, LARGER than himse f, which he gradua
ahSorbs. When its yellow bulk Is
re cone and he looks like a small SCI
on transparent pin. not quite an men 10
We he is Immediately hungry, and beg
looking for food.
"a -. That is the time when he should
rr+ ont In a brook somewhere, TO lt
ont for himself, and where there Will
no sunfish. pickerel, OF other bigger
wO % look out for him. 1t takes him ia
IA. II fftv davs TO exhaust the maSal
~, If provisions with which he comes
= the world.
; With good feeding, at the end OF
,ng first year he should have grown to
from four 20 five inches in length.
he , wears OF age, the trout should be So
-, or EIGHT inches long and at 8 ye
when his weight is from quarter [
half "a pound, he becomes an object o
terest to the scientific angler.
o" Some female trout spawn when
- 2 wears old. but their eggs are not u
erous At years. one viii yield I
'"g 400 TO 500, and occasionally as hisL
1000 eggs Ithas been affirmed th
he trout will yield 1000 eggs TO q
pound OF its weight, but my eNPeu
60, does not warrant me in expecting
thing like 50 much. If we get
i on eggs from a twc-pound or even
pore and half pound trout, we thlni
are doing well
30 We have had here this seaso'
have now, salmon-trout eggs, y
trout fry, and eggsof the German b
trout.
DIFFERENT METHODS or HATCHL