The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-06-25
The MeddLer
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A subscriber writes: 81 read a short
time since in The Meddler an alusion to
the slaughter of trout in other counties
IN Vermont. have fished our local
brooks Tor several years and will say that
never have ! found the trout SO few or
SO small, In fact, every large brook here
abouts that is near a crossroad has been
thoroughly trimmed of trout of legal
size and even the small ones are being
thlnned out ] want to ask what chance
a fisherman stands on brooks about here
when he conforms to the law asyregards
size, also what chance there will be in
the future if the fish hogs are allowed to
take everything regardless of size. While
90 not believe anyone enjoys troutng
better than ], would be glad to see a
closed season of five years before the
trout becomes extinct The question of
trout protection is one in which The Med
dler Is greatly interested and about which
ne has written not a little. He believes
the early open season which the legsla-
tufe provided for Windham county will
eventually prove its worth but it is yet
early to look for results. The prolonged
drouth OF last summer was disastrous to
the trout and no doubt depleted the
streams considerably. Trout fishing I'M
doubtedly is poor hereabouts at the pres
ent time, but it is safe to say that more
fish are left in the streams to breed this
fall than would have been the case had
the season opened Nav Is instead Of
April d.. The Meddler doubts the wis
dom OF closing stream for any definite
period because at the end Of that time
tthere "a trimming" process which in a
Few days utilities all the good that may
have accrued. With the season as it is
April Is to July l5-a strict Observance of
the six-inch law and the closing of ali
small tributary streams permanently
trout fishing hereabouts is bound 70 i'm,
prove. The matter of closing the small
dreams Is one which sportsmen ought to
IatEe ~ r"e M ht.etiq h OF the next legls;
snlendidI1 and "i ;H CHe pan mas WORKED
the State anu - "eiis auopleu all over
TO The Meddler:-
The writer wishes to call the attention
Of The Meddler to danger-spot in our
village where, some day, there will be a
disaster. A few days ago the writer saw
two of our little citizens,-probablv not
more than two years of age.-stooping
DOWN, under the lower rail that guards
CD the precipice on the south side Of
office. With childish curiosity they were
cooking to see what was down there. The
Iindlv hands of a passer-bv rescued them
rom their perilous nosifion hit thev
we're too young to understand their dan.
yer or the warning not TO 90 there aoain
4 one OF these little ones were to stray
way from nome, the 9larm-call to search
or Iost cnlld would be responded to by
lun ldi Oh men, whose pest feelings
Epuld pe SHOWN IN self.denylng and eager
Horts TO restore the missing one: Whose
BUSINESS IS 1t to provide the ounce of
,reVentlon ;. and place such safeguards at
ne spot referred TO that no little child
nay loSe It's lie there! 1910
brattIeboro, june II, l9O9. A Il. ).
The little mark at tho and Of Walnut
treet ALWAYS an attractive snot in SIM SIM
1er has nroven donh1v nIaasant +his ynar
ecause Of The onnortynH; t + af Si1 70
yatch the river bnratinc Resident lsC az wall
visitors find tic outlook rnstf1I and en-
,vahle and there ie hardly an b brl !,
nv pleasant dav when The settees are not
ccunied Considering The Marks nonuIar.
v # seems = shame that lis fittinpgS nnst
2 defaced IF Is dificnlt IL r. nndersta I
hat imnnises lead neonIa to mar tba sat-
zoe twist +bo o,ard raiIs and taor doyry
10 retaining wall vet vandaIism Of this
md has occnrred freouentIv this simmer
"a noon1o 1ubo i've n ~ a;rhbonhnnJ