The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-14
Wallace Reports on Distribu-
 tion During Year
HOW THE WORK IS DONE
Ninety-five Per Cent of Output of Fish Cultural Stations Consists of More Important Commer-
 cinl Species

tdllit anu T ibil aAohiiiiissio't>i D~- Wallace. Jr.. has received information from the bureau of fisheries to the erect that large numbers of catfish, rainbow trout strawberry bass rock bass small mouth black bass. large-mouth piack bass and bream have been distriputea by this department in various waters oi Alabama during the last fiscal year. ''The fact that the people of this state are beginning to realize the great value of practical fish culture Is, indeed. most encouraging,' said MT. Wallace yester- day.
 The bureau of fisheries informed Mir Wallace that more than @ per cent of the output of the hsh-cultural stations con sists of important commercial species. notably the salmons. shad, white fish, pike perch. yellow perch, white perch, laile trout cod, pollock, flat fish and Holsters. These are matched in lots of many mii- lions annually and planted by the bureau, the fresh water species principally in the large coastal streams and In the Great Lakes, the marine species upon the ln- shore fishing grounds of the Atlantic The cultivation of the fishes of the interior waters generally classed as game fishes, although a comparatively small factor in the total output, Is very lnl' portant feature of the bureaus work, sunnlving as 1t does various kinds of voung fish for public streams, lakes and ponds. fishing preserves. private ponos' streams, etc., in all parts of the United States Among the fishes most extensive ly cultivated for these purposes are th land-locked salmon, several species ON trout the grayling, the passes, crappie, bream and catfish, various others also are handled. The trouts are artificially hatched from eggs taken from both wild and domesticated stock, the passes, cat fish and others are derived from ma ture fish held in ponds for breeding pur- poses, or (except the small-mouth black bass) they are rescued from the over flows of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. Collections from the latter sources 1n- oiude also pike and pickeral, which are not distributed to applicants but are re- turned immediately to the main streams.
 Among the distributions made in Ala bama are the following:
 Catfish-Altoona, Robbins pond; Bes- semer, Sellers pond Dothan, Wilsons pond; F'ayette, Shirley's pond; For. Payne. Wills creek; Glen Allen. Abels pond; Greenville McF errin's pond; Liv- ingston, Gould's pond, Marion, Swanns pend; Normal, Turner's pond; Opelika, Black Jack lake; Ozark, Deiony's pond; 1; Pinckard, BorIand mill pond, Dean mill pond and Freestone pond Vance, Vance pond: Winfield, White Hill pond; To- lande. Yolande water works; York, Shel- tons pond.
 Rainbow Trout-Fort Payne, Crystal lake.
 Strawberry Bass-Bessemer, West lake, Camp Hill, Fuckers ponl Dothan, Floyd's mill pond Estelle, Jones pond; Evergreen, Deming pond; Etheridge mill pond, Horton pond. Tomlinson mill pond; Gadsden, Ewings pond; Goodwater, East mill pond; Gamble Creek, Hatchet creek; Iron City, Polands pond: Mckenzie, Wig gins pond; Opeika, Ingram's mill pond' Smiths pond; Prattville, Chambliss pond, Wilkinson's pond Rock Run. Dykes pond Scale, Ingrams pond; Selma, Bayne's pond, Childer's pond; Talladega, Groce's pond; York. Sheltons s pond.
 Rock Bass-Annston, Gibbons pond, Blount Springs, Aldredges pond; Cam den, Bonners pond: Courtland Big Nance creek Deatsville, Ivey's pond, JacksoEs pond DeKalb county, Lookout creek; Eufaula, Bushs pond; Eutaw, Pattons pond Evergreen, Autreys pond, NoePs pond, Savages pond; Gurley. Limestone pond Iron City, Shoal creek; Montgom- cry. Providers pond; Mountain Creek, Spring Branch pond; Ozark, Adams pond, Carrolls pond; Phil Campbell, Rudy branch; Portersvil1e, Horton Spring pond, Prattvile. Barnes pond; Taff, Danin pond.
 Small-Mouth Black Bass-Bessemer Woodwards pond; Guntersvlle. Short creek.
 Large-mouth Black Bass-Albertville, Highs pond; Alicevile, Gardners lake, GoIngs Mill creek; Andalusia, Hart's mill pond; Anniston, Lakewood lake. Ohatchie creek. Savage lake: Banks. Laws pond Walnut Creek pond; Bell Factory. Flint river; Belle Nina, Blackwell springs. Fogg spring, F1ney creek, brlernelu Little Ca- haba river; Booth, White Water mill pond; Burnsville. Spring pond Butler, War Lock creek; Calera. O'Neals pond {; Camp Hill. Jarrell's pond; Cedar Bluff,
 Locust branch; Centerville. Light com pany bond. Spring creek; Chunchula, Sweetwater creek; Columbia. Omussee creek; Collinsvile. Big Wills creek;
 Courtland. Big Nance creek; Crews,
 Beaver creek; Cuba. Sheffield's pond; | Cullman, Little river; Curls station, Curls pond; Decatur, Beaver lake; DeKalk