The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-12-13
a COSTLY EXPERIMENT.,
Fish Planting In the Great Lakes Declared
to He u Failure.

to He n Failure.
$50 far as stocking the inland lakes
with fish is concerned, the Matching ex-
pertinent in this State is 4 fat failure"
Mr.. Welcher is 4 practical fish hatcher,
having been connected with Seth Green's
establishment years ago. He came to
Wisconsin to hatch fish for w. X. Fair
bank at Lake Geneva, and was finally
induced to take charge OF the State
hatcheries. lie was State S~uperintend-
emit for Ave years,
AFTER fifteen years of experiment."
he continued, land after putting nil
lions of fish In the lakes, not a single
specimen can be caught, and not a sim
gle specimen eve has been caught.
stocked $40 lakes while I was connected
with tho haJcheries, aud many more
nave been stocked at q great cost, but
the fish have never been matured. We
filled Third and Fourth lakes at Madi-
son with fish nine inches in length, and
I have received hundreds Of letters ask.
ing why they were not found. | think
the young fish do not mature because
there is a lack of proper food, and be-
cause the temperature of the water is
not what 1t should be. The possibility
OF injury in transportation is often ad-
vanced as a theory, but | have seen ex-
periments tried which prove that this il
not the cause Mr.. Fairbank, OF Chicago,
has spent thousands of dollars Matching
fry OF the banks OF Lake Geneva and
planting them In the lake, but when we
fshed with gill-nets We could not catch
a single specimen,
Mr.. Fairbanli says no is satisfied
that they can never be made To prosper.
Brook trout have been a success, but
they have been planted for most part in
private streams, where they can not be
caught by the public. And the fist,
commissions will say that the German
carp has been a success also. 1t has,
but the carp is a very inferior fish. 1t
does not flourish in the clear streams ot
the North, preferring the warm, slug
gish rivers aud hayous Of the South
Hut, granting that trout and carp are a
success, the original intention has not
been carried out,
ut was TO stock the lakes with trout
and whitefsh, and thus furnish food
for the millions. The whitehsh and
trout will not grow, and the brook trout
Is mostly out OF the reach OF the public,
90 we are getting for the thousands of
dollars expended u few of tho inferior
carp. The State has quite Il capital in
vested. and appropriates Sl9, 900 4 year
for defraying the expenses OF the hatch
cry. The sporting clubs are getting al
NEST the ole benefit Of the outlay."-.
Milwaukee Journal
Fi0Ored.
J The Duchess OF S~hamc0ddy- Our En-.
glish girls are more attractive 10 men
than your American girls.
MISS Manhattan-Iiow is it. then that
YOUR men seem to prefer American wives?
The Duchess-The explanation in
those exceptional cases is simply that
the Romeo needs money.
Miss Manhattan-Then how is it that
American ~millionaires don't marry some
Of your English Juliets?-Judge.
Letting MIN of Easy.-Prisoner-
81 am an old man, your Honor; eighty
;hree on my last birthday. BE lenient,
with me, SIR" The Judge-'I will. Be-
.ng eighty-three years old you have not
.ong to live. l therefore make your
,erm as light as can. Instead of ten
years, you go up for life. PUCK.
Must Draw the Line.-Children
playing in Central park. why don't
you go with Lucy any more" Cant;
her dolls so awfully dowdy. Judge.