Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-27

and fed upon thick pudding made by
streining chopped beef livers through
screen and adding a little water. A small
portion Of this is spread upon the surface
of the water with feather. Upon this diet
the little fellows fed. at first six
eight times a day. In the spring season,
when the outdoor water commences to grow
warm. they are transferred to little rear
ing ponds made of pine boards. provided
with gravel bottoms, and each accommodate
ing from ten to twenty thousand fry. Here
they fed with the liver diet three times
a day until early winter when they will
have grown to a length of from three to
six inches. and have arrived at an age of
discretion emitting them to Toe transferred
to the larger breeding ponds" each ac
commodating 10000 yearlings. When they
are three years old they are still fed on
liver. but instead of being strained, 1t is
now administered IN solid pieces a half
inch in diameter.
Brook trout eggs are transported from
the hatCheries to all parts of. the United
States and with practically no loss. They
are placed in canton flannel trays covered
with moss and Grated one upon another.
Those shipped abroad are surrounded by
chamber of cracked ice constantly refilled.
They have thus been successfully shipped
to England Mexico South America. Japan
and even New Zealand. The other species
of trout are prCpagated and distributed in
similar manner from the hatcheries of the
bureau of fisher les
Wonderful New Trout.
A brand-new trout far outshining all of
the other game fishes in beauty Is to be
propagated and distributed by the bureau.
This species, the Roosevelt trout" was
absolutely unknown until recently d!scov-
cred in Volcano creek. southern California
by Prof Barton w. Evermann of the bu-
reau of fisheries This is the most beau
tiful of all the trouts." says Prof. Ever
mann. The briliance and richness of its
coloration is not equaled in any other
known species. 1t gives me great pleasure
to name this superb trout for Theodore
Roosevelt. in recognition of his active in
terest in fish and game protection"
This fish really SURPRISES in beauty any
that has ever delighted the American an
sler No imported gold fish IS more ra-
diant It's head and back are of delicate
golden olive which blends lower upon the
sides to a notified band of red, below which
is golden yellow blending to red again upon
the belly. The tail and upper fin are green
blending into yellow and spotted with black.
The bureau of fisheries is now taking out
of Volcano creek brood stocks of this beau-
tiful fish and of other beautiful golden
trouts" which have their home there These
being transferred to the western trout
hatcheries and there held preparatory to
multiplying the species artiticially. They
will be planted in many small mountain
streams of the west and Will be tried in GER
tain streams even of the east.
Western Salmon for New England.
The transplantng of western salmon in
New England streams Is among the other
interesting work commenced by the bureau
Thus will our two chief game fishes-the
trout and salmon-be more evenly dis
tributed, the brook trout having already
been transplanted In the west. Salmon of
various kinds are being distributed by the
bureau at the rate of over quarter billion
fish and eggs per year. The salmon is the
acrobatic marvel of-our whole finny tribe
Observations by Landmark, Norwegian
authority, show that this game fish can
jump as high sixteen feet perpendicular
ly. The darling of salmon up a waterfall is
one of the sights of nature upon which an
glers most devoutly wish to feast their eyes
Because of these acrobatic powers it would
seem well nigh impossible for the govern
ment to confine its brood stocks. At it's
salmon hatcheries the problem has been
solved by the erection of heavy wooden
barricades. The eggs used for the artificial
propagation of these fishes have to be OBJ