The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-09-12
How Little Fishes Grow
From MinnOWS to Big Trout

the water TO catch il before it struck
In conformity with a law Of nature
effective i'm Utah and the surrounding
| territory. regardless OF class or title.
regardless Of whether or not they were
successful In their leap for eats" the
fish come down again. I became ac-
quainted with the violence with which
this law Of gravity operates early in
my youth. even before I had learned
not TO roll too close to the edge Of the
| bed Later IL was impressed forcibly
upon my mind and more material sec
uons OF my physique when making
moonlight tests Of the small limbs in
the neighbor's orchards. The desire to
master the peculia rites Of the bicycle
had something TO do with this lSnowl-
/ edge I had gained or what goes up
must come DOWN and I have had sew
| eral post graduate courses when I be-
ieVed. with the assurance Of youth,
| that I was ace high" with the damscl
| Of my dreams. But with all this wis
| dom 7 was not prepared for the big
! splash on this occasion or the subse-
Quent shower bath received by the au-
dicnce at this feeding frolic Of the fish.
Tn these ten ponds. the various spe-
| Cies OF trout are divided. each sorted
10 a pond by itself There are rain
bow trout from eight to twenty inches
| I'm length. brook trout ranging slightly
smaller i'm size. There are cut-thrOats.
l Utah lake trout the widest OF them
| all. the German brown. and Fish lake
trout. Perhaps there are others. but
! II there are they have slipped my mem
40 Spawning Time.
At one end OF each pond is a mar
rover extension. At spawning time a
gate is dropped. which cuts this extern
sion off from the pond proper and the
extension is partially filled with gravel.
The sDaWners leap over this gate and
| the spawn is spread upon the gravel.
| The female follows and Laws her eggs
and Is taken from the spawning bed
and the eggs stripped from her. after
which she is again placed in the pond.
The cost Of eggs TO the state. when
purchased from private hatcheries, is
/ So a thousand. 4 three-year-old trout
/ lays on an average Of 1000 eggs. so
| that an average value for the fish is
| per fish has. however. been fixed by
| Mr. Chambers at 81. making the agEre-
gate value Of the fun grown spawners
now on hand $4,000.
Feeding over. for the fish. we were
| taken into the nursery" It is here.
I IN cement room about 20N60. that
100000 fish children spend their baby
hood, sleeping from 10000 10 10000 in a
bed. These beds. or watts. are - inches
/ I'm width by about - feet I'm length the
water in them being kept continually
| fresh. coming from a series Of falls"
from the ceiling at one side. These
I falls are necessary that sufficient ONy-
gen may penetrate the water. When
ever the condition Of the water is not
right as to the amount OF oxygen con-
| tanned. small gas bags viii form at
I the side or the fish's head and it be
i
/ hospital There is no ambulance for
/ this purpose. The fish is merely
dropped over the end Of the vat into
the overflow and is carried outside the
I building. into wooden vat where he
gets the open air cure. living in the
sunshine until fully recovered. There
are. perhaps. 100000 in the two hospit-
| ais at present and not all the wards
| are yet filled
Death Rate Low.
| In all the nursery. among those two
| million finny children. there are not
I TO exceed dozen deaths a day. These
| little fellows are valued at Sc "a thous-
/ and. that the state has I'm this one
/ hatchery alone. over $4,000 i'm stock
/ fish
The overflow from the ten fish ponds
| is carried off through ditch TO the
/ edge Of the states property. where n
| cylindrical revolving screen allows the
young spawners which are placed i'm
the ditch when they graduate from the
| nursery. There are $4,000 fish I'm this
| 3OO-feet OF ditch and they range from
g months to year I'm age. This spawn
/ ing kindergarten is but three feet in
| width, yet the fish are so thick that
| a net dropped by Superintendent Jack
/ ems brought up several hundred at one
/ dip. They were kept out Of the water
| but a moment. but when dropped back
] there were dozens Of floaterg. their
| white bellies turned up. apparently
/ dead. Within minute. however. they
/ revived and were gone like q streak
I as well and happy as ever. When these
/ fish reach spawning age they are
placed in the larger ponds. They are
/ valued at $40 n thousand. and 1900
! worth Of fish leap uD out Of the water
at feeding time I'm the ditch
\ call from Mr.. JaCklin to the house
appraised the guests that there were
| eats within. The invitation was aC-
/ cepted unanimously. Mrs. JaCEens had
/ laid the table heavy with pies. cakes
and sandwiches. which were supple
mented with rich. cold milk and other
D.
at the conclusion Of a half hour bore
evidence of the appreciation Of the
/ guests.
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