Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-30
THE FESTIVE BULLHEAD.

HE N E bN A-A-AE-AD' head, which, he said, if as scarce as the brook trout, would bring as good prices. MT Green was q close student of the ways of fishes and once told the writer that he had no doubt that some species knew how to communicate ideas-in other words, to talk after their own fash ion, though they cannot mako sounds,
 He held that bullheads were far more intelligent ill the care of their young than most fish. He said that after mat ing the female of this species digs hole in the side of the bank or i'll the bottom of the pond and then excavates sort of cave about feet across and 6 or inches deep. After the spawn is deposited the water is fanned and the dirt so kept from the spawn. The eggs hatch about five days after they are laid. When the fry are matched out, they lie around a few days until they are able to follow the mother. She then cares for them and teaches them to feed, just as hen teaches her chicks, and it takes three or four weeks for the young bullheads to learn to provide for themselves. As soon as they have learned this lesson the parent fish drives the young from her. Mir. Green said that the black bass was the only other fish that he knew of which soprotected its young, and he de- clarrd that, although the story was in deed n fish story, it was true one.
 Writing of bullhcadS. by the way, re- minds me of q bullhead story heard onCe that might do well to wind this article up with. It does not come from ,l,. h1a hnNCnTpP Is Seth Green. IL originated in Mayville, Wis. Near that place there was. ill 1860, q lake which is now Horicon marsh. The winter of that year was very cold, and the ico froze two feet thick and solid, without single hole the ffSh-aYl buifheads~in order m not to be SmOthered to death, Swam up the channel of the Rock river to the Kekus- kee dam, where there was an air hole. So numerous were the fSh that they filled the channel completely, and when the air hole was reached those in the lead were crowded out upon the ice in great numbers by those in the rear Great numbers" is faint way of stat ing the facts as related to my informant There was a perfect geyser of bullheads, and it lasted for day. There were so many of them that they sold for 95 cents a wagon load, and the people of the vicinity lived on the fish for weeks and had to use several hundred loads for manure
 You may doubt this much of the story, and therefore Twill not relate the remainder. If you ever go to Mayville and ask about the bullheads of Kekoskee and the expressman, named Brush, who fed his hogs and his horses on them for two months, you will get the whole yarn, and then you will see that have only begun it. CHARLES APPLEBEE.
 Willing to Suffer.
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