El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-28
Ccopyriqht. 1911. by frank G. CarDenter.)
wwTAsHNGTON. d. c. oct "a
M Are you disguised with the

AAF Are YOU disguised with the
high price OF meats2
Do your steaks, chops and roasts cost
more than you can afford?
Are you growing tired Of pouring
vour money into the pockets OF our
great butcher barons? LII,
IL Sd. why don't you eat Ilsn- II ~
make more brain and just as 5000 Lu ~
&c. 1t viii digest quite as easl4yi 49, L.
taken fresh from the waters vi --1---
Won 20 singing through ne A!le '1p
s1eeS nation. one Of the happiest On
eerrh IS composed Of fish eaters. me
C7{nese one of the strongest anu
thriftiegt, lives largely upon lle 500
food, and all over bu rep ~ Fi-S ToT5.
farmer has his own private Llsil pe 49,
There IS no land that VIII false -
raTfer than the United States ana mere
Is no sort Of animal NE Wulc- y IL
breed so rapidly nor proouce SO ll--l 49,
Man has but one, two, or az llg 100 80
three young at time anu INC 49,
is frue of cattle and horses some
Lraeds of sheep produce twins, ana LAe
hoe often has 10 or y pigs az q nllSL'
The fish muluples py L-S ~ 49, -
me Pacific salmon has on In5 a4e-a5SS
( 0fO egrs- the shad 10000 ana me SOu
h esf5 Ia i7roD as many as zeUU,uvJ- IN
deed Ii has been esumaUeQ LIla1 u q a
the cod eggs laid In one yer So - -
-,-0d7rra female fish, and they III L-- ~
fe- similar eggs, that within a re"
- ~ whole world would be GOV.
cred. and we could nave a tOW1L VA
erFs reaching from here TO the moon lL-
All this is Drellm mary 70 my SUI
~F che GREAT work when our Uncle
sam Patriarch has under way 10 M
crease our fish supply
Planting FISH by the Hilllons'
During the past week ny 49, 80
taTIring with the men who run the Llsli
Commission. They have a DIG Once
Te-a la Washington. and connected
WITH II are fish hatcheries scaltel ca - -
over the union. The government AoN
Matches fish as farmers hatch chlcAens
and its output OF the Ilnn4 tribe ~ -
U.s. more than 1900 million VI lll -
f,e-a were something like zgO. OVy1lyO
salmon over 100000, 600 WhlteIlsn, oouI-
OOO 600 or I00s00OU0v PIE Rg- -. --,S-
almost 200. 0O0. 900 cod IEe W-L-lt pS- On
----------Fe-a7 400 600 900, the flat fish 6OO,-
40 000 and the Holsters almost 2OU,uV0'-
000 In addition to this IneIe Wa a.
enormous planting or oysters e-ll- 9 u =
frfburfOu of food fishes so LHllleIuLs -
--o-fe-- chat L cannot mention them an
Some Of these fish were taken LLoLl -
Atlantic TO the Pacific and some " -
brought from the great nor % " - -
Maine and other states LneE5 az ~ ~
- e-0varnueut hatcheries in q dlI-
ferent states, and the tisn reaISI, ~ :
Increasing By the hundreds OF LLI----e'
rer euuurn- Since the es ~ III 9---
+ba bureau. which was about +v 80
---o-s than $4,000 million eggs nave
O..
been artificialIy produced, ana OF me-
ebo77+ half have been the output OF tIe
lest six years. ] am told a-so t-st- =
work is at its beginning ana ma =
our waters are pio ll5s $50 0Tr fists
cared for We may yet s49Ao G5--tt--.5te
ID the faces Of the packing lnI 7'o1
New Fish Laws Needed. ..
The next congress VIII De a5Heu -
make new laws for the proJe,ct-oH ~, ~
orr fish in the streams ana aion6 tH7
soagts- as well as TO the proper me- 9
seemeut Of our oyster LafIns- Dl-----e
my stay in the offices OF me L-sH Ioi AZ
mission I had a chat with Dr. HuBA n
SMITH the deputy commissioner Dt
smith IS a high authority on an s---
matters He has Travelled WlQely ~ q
~ world looking up new flsn ano rs
products, IN order that they may D1
F-e-7er71a1tad TO the United States
~ tells me that the states now nave
the rIrht TO control the protectlOn anl
Drops gatIon Of the Ish WITHIN lA5ll
boundarfss he thfaks this snoulu Dt
,-fveT oven TO the national government
Snd saws that many Of the states al
allowing their fisheries to 80 70 rum
Take the shad, which gives US Iens ~
millions Of pounds OF the most CEN. 49, ID.
FOOD every year. It IS the leading IlsI
~ our eastern seabOard, and IL runs ll
fha coastal streams Of the Atlanlc a'
the salmon does up those OF Lne racine
THE government has been DONG VIVA
something like 1000 million Of the yolns
fr the various streams. An these Llsl
were raised from eggs taken from MS
CAUGHT for the markets and the 1les-
of the fish was eaten. As il is now u
some OF the states, the sheo are IaAei
-vhen they first enter the streams j L-s
eggs are not ripe at that time ana arg
useless to the hatcheries. The resuL
Is that the spaWntakeTs must Wa-l To-
the run farther up stream, ana nllllon'
sre lost. Tn North Carolina the rlsler'
men so control the streams tnat tht
greater part of the shad cannot go ~
the rivers TO spawn. This was cone y
such an extent that the supply OF NoElI
rsrolina shad was greatly reduced IN
9utput fell TO 100000 when the OH
GERS Of the bureau of fisheries went q
the North Carolina legislature ana Sc
cured certain protective laws AS re-
su1t this last year the catch has beer
times as great as II was DeIore lhost
laws were passed, and the snad are
rapidly growing in number
The Potomac shad are almost unpro
fected. There are fish nets RUNNING
from Washington all the way down u
CbasaDea Ike bav. The fishermen Of VIZ
eyfnia run their nets as FAR as they car
out into the middle Of the Potomac TIE
MARYLAND men do the same from tn
opposite bank, and in the middle OF the
stream nets are so stretched that the-
catch the shad which swim along tn
bottom. The result is that the Potomac
river. which once had its shad by thu