Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-09-21

ruees, and fish are retired at the hatch
cry only by reason of death. The death
rate, TOO, IS small. The egg of the black
pass Is very sma.l-nothing but Miiler's
bolting cloth will hold it. When
Matched each fish has an egg sac, on
which II feeds by absorption for from
Sixty TO eighty days. But the growth
OF the young fish is astonishing.
saw one pan filed with FISH Matched
out IN January. They averaged 3
inches in length and some were inches
long.
There are some private hatcheries in
the state which produce fry" for sale
TO stock private streams The state
fish are supposed to go only to public
waters. Private preserves for the sale
or fish to the city markets usually fail,
because the fish "eat their heads of. -
The private hatcheries at Hudson Os-
ceola &c. Hanson's) and at Clam Fails.
Washburn county Captain Knopps).
are the largest. There is a smaller one
at Fairchild.
The small fish are measured in a pan.
A bit of water is poured in and the
bottom covered with fry" or fish.
These are counted. bread-making
pan holds perhaps 1900 fry" With
this as measure an order is readily
filled. To illustrate the difference in
size of brook trout and white bass eggs:
dipper that will hold $500 OF tie for
mer will hold 100000 of the latter. AT
the hatchery are shown eggs preserved
in alcohol n those about to hatch
one readily sees the eggs. the head and
the abundant food sac
Science and Sick Fish.
Fish occasionally get sick and die.
as If affected by a pestience. Some
years ago the perch in Lake Mendoza
died and We're buried by tons. The sci
entists had their theories. but the rem
edies for fish disease are not readily
forthcoming and more difficult of APP
plication The strangest part was that
the following season there seemed to
be as many perch in Mendoza as ever.
Nature is beneficiently lavish.
We walked about the sixty acres. 1t
is beautiful spot and favorite pace
for picnicers, fer wnom tables are pro-
vided. IT is called the Wine Springs
district. The water is wondrous pure
and in places II can be seen hubhiing
from the silver sand There are none
but trout brook. brown and rainbow
and they are kept in round ponds or
board-encosed races" perhaps eight
feet across. The largest family in point
of size were browns" some OF them
weighing six and seven pounds. There
was a family of brook trout. Is or 20
months old. and all of inches long.
The biggest brook trout of recent re-
port was six-pounder caught in Mar
quette county a year ago last spring.
The rainbow trout are beautiful, but
not so good, They grow larger. a
Pierce county farmer reportirs twelve
and onehalf FOUNDER. and mere have
been catches of fifteen pounds These
fish sometimes make their way into the
big lakes. The longest race is 100 rods
filed with young fish. After the third
season all the fish of species are put
together, They are then big enough to
protect themselves from each other.
The Oshkosh hatchery is now devot-
ing itself to pike. Bass and trout to be
exploited later Pike eggs are taken
from the mother fish which are capt
ured in their native waters with nest,
the fish then being returned to the
water.
why the carp was Dropped.
The Madison hatchery dicarded the
carp a few years ago. Great claims
are made for this fish by some as a
cheap food for the moor. II groI to a
large size and grows rapidly. But
there is a prejudice against ii in Wis
consin. There is notion that it eats
the eggs of better fishes and thus cuts
off the supply The experts deny this,
but the prejudice seems insurmounta-
able. These fish caused surprise in
Madison waters this summer by APP
pearing in great numbers. No one
seemed to know how they got there.
The sportsmen are anxious to have
this is the second season they have been
Matched at the Madison hatchery There
are two varietes--the Chinese and the
English. They look like cartridges.
but are bigger. The enclosure is COW
cred with wire. The birds are kept
until nearly full grown The first sea
sons output We're turned loose near
Bayfield, and they are protected by law
for five years This bird builds its nest
on the ground. II flies low but its
speciality is running. in which it can
distance the razor backed hog. Fl. f.
Bosworth. a wealthy sportsman of Mil
waukee and Hartland winters nearly
1000 of these birds at the latter place.
The eggs were first obtained from him
ORLANDO BURNETT.
JOKES BY THE YARD.