St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-09-20
PLANTING MANY TROUT
Good Work of Caledonia Forest and
Stream Club Shown at Annual
Dinner.

held on the Academy Campus
last Thursday and was very pleas
ant and successful gathering. The
weather was good and the location
was ideal and the tables under the
direction of Mr.. and Mrs. Guy ".
Hill were very attractively arranged, ,
the decorations of mountain ash
being very simple but effective. At
the business meeting held before the
dinner 72 new members were ad-
mitted to the club. The dinner was
prepared by o. Fl. Smith and served
in a very satisfactory. manner The
speaking was entirely different from
what Vermont audiences are accus-
toned, it being confined to out of the
state men with the exception of
President Titcomb. It was of a high.
order and pleased everyone who
heard it.
sion was the meeting of the Gale
donia County Legislative Reunion
of the members of 1910, there being
IL members present.
Seated at the speakers table were
Toastmaster Alexander Dunnett and
on his right Pres. Titcomb, Bur-
CESS Johnson, Col. George NJ. Har-
vey and Lieut.-Gov. l.. p. Slack; on
the left Will Carleton, Prof. M. g.
Benedict and T. N. Vail. On the op-
posite side of the table were Mrs.
Dunnett, Mrs. Vail, w. J. Bigelow,
Miss Harvey, Miss Thurston, Mrs.
Bigelow, John Chase, Mrs. Titcomb,
A. F. Stone and Mrs. Chase.
AS soon as the cigars were passed
President T1tcomb called the dinner
fN pnf0 +ha III
ditional members were voted in and
A. F. Stone moved that the vote of
the club be extended to Secretary
Guy w. Hill who had so efficiently
arranged the details of the meet
ing and the preparation of the
tables and dinner which was unan-
imOusly voted. Mr.. Titcomb then
spoke of the work of the
the club and changes that seemed
desirable in the fish and game laws
AS it was an address that would in
terest all Vermonters we publish al!
relating to Vermo4c matters.
Mr.. Titcomb's Address.
Members of the Caledonia Forest
and Stream Club:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
When the Britains first settled in
New Zealand they found beautiful
streams fed by mountain springs,
which contained very few fish. Ac-
climatization societies were formed
and through them various species of
the salmonidae were introduced
with varying success. The work of
these societies began about 80 years
ago and as result good fishing for
various species of trout and salmon
now prevails throughout all of the
streams of the country. Similar re-
suits followed the Introduction of
eggs of various species of trout in
Tasmania. Not until 1903 was any
work OF this kind done in South
America when the republic of Ar
gentina introduced eggs of various
salmonidae, large proportion of
which Matched and were planted. |
Three years after planting the trout |
in Argentina I received a letter from
a ranchman residing about 10 miles
from the first hatchery stocked in
the country, who said that he had |
recently been out fishing on a stream
which flowed through his estancia
and got 27 nice trout. He added
that his boy had recently been out |
and caught larger number by
putting a bag in the stream.
/ have prefaced my remarks with |
the history of work in foreign coun-
tries south of the equator where,
until introduced, no member of the
family ever existed, to
bring out two points:
First, the self-evident results of
artificial propagation Of fish.
Second, the necessity for protect
i've laws or laws for the regulation
Of fshing-hunting
The ranchman, who after the fish
Il %1.or Tod t0 III 1%rsxTI
in the form of eggs at great expense, +
thought nothing of catching 27 nice
trout. and perhaps hardly anyone
would have questioned his right to
do so, but he incidentally tells how
his boy has begun instinctively to
rob the stream by bagging the fish.
and this too, of nsh carried several
thousand miles in the form of eggs
upon which the country OF Argen-
tina must depend largely to keep up
the supply and by artificial propa-
cation extend their distribution.
Results of Club Work.
The work of this club is in line
with the acclimatization societies of
New Zealand. The principal plank
Of our platform when the club start
ed, as you will remember, was to
see that the waters of this county
are annually stocked with fish Last
spring when [ took the applications
which came to me as State Fish and
Game Commissioner, with a view to
making assignments of fish for vari-
ous waters throughout the state, it
was found that nearly 80 per cent.
If the applications came from Cal
edonia county. Being president of
The club and also commissioner,
n n a 6cin
sition, and I therefore extended
he time for making applications one
month and advertised in the news !
papers in order that the anglers in
other counties of the state might
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