St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-02-12
FOREST AND STREAM
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state during the past year, and q
large part of it in this county,
tracing out difficult cases of the vio-
lation of the fish and game laws.
He spoke of the changes of the
law that were likely to be made by
the present legislature, and said
that even if the length of trout legal
to catch was reduced to five inches,
the senate had limited the catch to
twenty-five trout in one day, which
would serve as a protection to fish.
The bill provides for game refugees
which allow any person or associa-
ton of persons owning a large tract
of land to have it set aside as a
refuge for game of all kinds and nc
hunting be allowed within its limits.
To show what was possible in the
development of game, Mr.. TitcomE
called attention to the fact that
when be began work there was no
deer hunting at all in Vermont and
today when it's area is considered
Vermont is the best state for deer
hunting in the union. The law
would make an open season for
hunting deer from November 10 to
December of each year. He hoped
that the provision of a hunting Ii
as there are only two states in the
union today which do not have such
a license. The nonresident hunt
er's license had been changed and
restricted to citizens of the United
States; this will bar foreign labor
ers employed temporarily in the
state from killing the game in their
vicinity. If the state should see fit
to establish a fishing license, it
would have money enough to estab-
lish trout hatcheTies III every county
in the state.
Wanted Midsummer Meeting
Guy w. Hill advocated a mid
summer meeting for the coming
summer, and thought it might be as
well if the membership of the club
was not so large but contained
smaller number Of actively inter
ested men willing to pay a larger
membership fee than at present. He
moved that the chair appoint COM
mittee of three to act with the
president in arranging for a mid
summer meeting of the club to be
held during the months of July or
August and it was voted.
How to Plant Trout
IN response 10 du Inquiry lIOlH
Mr.. Hill, President Titcomb explain
ed the proper methods of planting
trout fry. He spoke of the necessity
of beginning the distribution of fry
in the spring in order to give the
growing trout in the hatcheries
room as they increased in size. He
cautioned people who received trout
fry not to let the cans containing
them stand still for any length of
time because the young trout would
soon be overcome by the stagnation
of the water, but if you keep them
moving they can be transported for
long distances without any change
of water. He also cautioned distri
butors of trout against subjecting
them to sudden changes in tempera-
ture and advised the planting of the
fry in the smallest tributaries of the
stream it was intended to benefit, be-
cause these are the natural spawn
ing beds and breeding places of the
trout and better. results will be OBJ
tanned than if they are planted in
the larger streams and exposed to
the attacks of their enemies.
the Federal Fish Hatchery, advised
the planting of trout in the upper
waters of the stream and said that |
anyone pldAI
would do we'll to make a dam a |
month before the time for planting |
the trout, near the springs at the |
head waters of the stream, and plant
the fish in there, as in that time
a large amount of food for the SUPP
port of the young trout would be
developed. If a stream is inhabited |
by trout alone he believed that for |
the money expended fry could be
planted. to better advantage than /
ingerlfngs. He closed by saying /
that he would be glad to help any
members Of the club in any way he
could in the distribution of trout |
fry in the springs OF this section of
the county. iss ea
. Col. p. e. Laird OF Barnet, the
Oldest member aof eIEe5 club, now Sd