The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-09-12
BRAS Dor LAKES.

BRAS Don LAKES.
some filled out into solid structures, and
some hollow, their roofs near the
ground, and the four supporting poles
standing out against the sky. The barns
at best were small affairs, not like the
big, generous barns you will see on the
farms of Vermont or Virginia
Hay is the chief field product of Cape
Breton island. The oat crop is next
But both are subordinate to the cod and
mackerel fishing interests, and these in
turn are Of less importance today than
the crop of sportsmen who come here to
fish for trout and salmon or to shoot
partridges and caribou. The Garlic are
few, but the cartridges are plenty, and
there have been more salmon in the
streams this summer than ever before
1t is unfortunate that the same good ac-
count cannot be given of the cod and
mackerel fishing on the coast. The
coast fisheries have fallen off nearly 70
per cent in the last ten years, am
told. In this experience Nova Scotia is
matching New England, and the seine
is responsible for the misfortunes Of
both.
The salmon are better preserved, be-
cause the game laws are enforced more
strictly than they ever were. No salm-
on may be caught from Aug Is to
March 1, except with fly in the month
of February. Trout may not be taken
between Oct 1 and April 1, and for
eigners may not fish at all without an
anglers permit and may not kill in one
day more than IL bass, pike or perch or
20 trout, and they may not sell or ex-
port any of these.
The fishing season does not close with
the season Of open navigation. These
broad lakes freeze over in winter so
that men drive with sleighs on the sur
face Of the lake from Grand Narrows to
st. Peters. In this season the fisher
man cuts hole in the ice and with
bit of brush to shelter him fishes for
cod. Most of the fish are shipped to
Montreal, where they bring good
price.
TIE northern part of Cape Breton
island is a good farming country Yet
the people of the island are not prosper
GUS. They say emigration is responsible
for most of their troubles. Very few
families in this country but have
closer tie with tho United States in
brother, son or a daughter, gone to
seek fortune.
cts just this way" said tavern
keeper, lamenting the unprosperous con-
dition of his people, in conversation
with q little group in his tiny Office. |
"The good farming land is mostly taken,
but it isn't worked. On most of the |
farms there's nobody left but the old |
folks, and they can't work farm all |
by themselves. So they just let what
will grow and make what harvest they |
can. All the young people have gone to
the States looking for q fortune Wages |
there are twice as high as here. A la
borer here doesn't get more than 81 a
day. But, then, 81 here is worth So in
the States, so they re no better off. And
most Of them, when they go to the
States, are strong and hearty and will
ing, and they overwork. So they break
down after time. I've seven brothers
in the States, and they re not so we'll off
as they would have been if they had
;taid here. "
This disposition of the young people
% turn away is an evil which has
5hwarted the efforts of Mrs. Alexander
Graham Bell to improve the condition
If the people near her husbands estate
vt Baddeck. She brought teachers from
Boston to start school at Baddeck and
o train native teachers to take up the
work after time. But as fast as the
'oung people learn they are off to the
states, and so the Boston teachers are
till at Baddeck. They stay through the
ummer months and go back to Boston
n the fall. The Nova Scotia winter is
90 severe for them.
Once the women of Cape Breton is
and made carpets and before that made