The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-23
BULLETIN
Fish and Game Warden Will Is
sue One Soon.
Plea for Boys and Their Fishing
Pole and Line.
DYCHE LIKES TO FISH
And Dig His Own Bait OF Grub
Worms.
DYCHE LIKES TO FISH
Leavens a Serious State DOcu-
ment With Philosophy.

Professor Lewis Lindsay Dyche,
state fish and game warden, is in To-
peka today working on the proofs of
his bulletin Ponds, pond fish and
pond fish culture shortly to be issued
from the state printery. He said that
the number of letters of inquiry that
have been received by the department
of fish and game since he has been
such as to indicate a general and wide
spread Interest in the subjects of fish
ponds, how to build them, what kind
of fish to put into them, how to OBJ
tain fish for stocking purposes, etc.
1t is explained in the bulletin by
Professor Dyche that an effort has
been made in the publication to give
simple and elementary information as
nearly accurate as possible and to a
considerable extent the bulletin has
merous questions that have been pro-
pounded.
Plea for Small Boy.
Among other things, Professor
Dyche makes a plea for the small boy
and his fishin' pole Excerpts from the
bulletin are as follows:
"It does boys good to go fishing. When
fishing they are not doing anything
else. Watch a bunch of boys fishing
and usually you will find that the bust
ness not only takes all their time and
attention, but that it is excellent recrea-
ton and sport for them. The same
number of boys with small guns are a
positive danger to themselves and a
menace to the neighborhood where
they operate. They not only shoot
many birds that ought to be spared on
account of their value as destroyers of
insects injurious to agriculture and
horticulture, but they are liable to
Shoot kill or cripple, any animals that
may be running loose in the fields, or
even each other. The small boy and
the fishing pole may be considered a
safe and harmless proposition; the
small boy with a small gun is neither
bow with the small gun@should be
separated.
Dyche Likes to Fish Himself.
Boys are not the only creatures that
like to fish. [ am not ashamed to con-
fess that 1 really like to 'go-a-fishing'
occasionally, as much now and at times
more than when a boy; I like to fish
the old fashioned way with pole and
line, and L am not averse when the
fishing season comes and the signs are
favorable, to digging bait the old fash
toned grub-worms and fish worms, for
'catties' and 'sunnies' to nibble at and
to catching few minnows to tempt
the rush of the crappie and the black
bass. like to sit on a grassy bank II
the shade of a tree, watch the floating
corks on two or three lines and wait
for a bite. How suddenly would an
swer the call of the wild catfish or
the bass that is pulling the cork out of
sight; how do like to feel that pull on
the line made by the struggling cat or
bass. Let's all quit and go fishing. I
am going"
Turning to the more serious side Of
life. Professor Dyche in his bulletin
says:
Fish and High Meat Prices.
1.-THE present high prices that all the
staple kinds of meat products COM
mand make it necessary for the great
mass of the people to look not only for
a cheaper meat food, but for more
| economic methods of producing it than
heretofore have been devised. Even
now men who are working for from
$135 to 81 a day and have families to
support, can scarce afford to eat beef,
pork or mutton once a day. Many peo-
pie must have something that in
measure will take the place of or at
! least answer in part as a substitute for
| high priced beef, pork or mutton. The
| possibility and value of fish as a good
and wholesome food product for the
people of Kansas should, I believe, re-
ceive more serious consideration than
| heretofore has been given to it,