St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-09-09
FISHING AND FARMING
Interesting Speaking at Midsummer
Meeting Of Forest and Stream
Club and Farmers.

The person who stayed at home
last Wednesday because the midsum
mer meeting of the Caledonia Forest
and Stream Club and Caledonia
County Farmers Assoc. was held on
the fair grounds missed one of the
most interesting and conveniently
arranged meetings of these clubs.
The chairs and tables in the dining
hall made the banquet a very pleas
ant feature and the speaking was
confined wholly to practical talk
which held the interest of all pres
ent.
The dinner was served by L. j.
King, and he gave generous serv-
ings. AS soon as dinner was over
w. J. Bigelow, president of the
Forest and Stream club called the
people to order and spoke briefly of |
the large amount of trout fry that |
the club had planted during the pres
ent season. The distribution of the |
fry from the railroad stations had |
largely been the volunteer work of |
owners of automobiles. The club |
hoped to secure support enough |
from it's members to allow the club I
to pay for the distribution work and
carry it on in all parts of the county.
He also asked the members of the
club to send to Sec. w. B. Eastman
list of the brooks in their town
that it would be profitable to stock
so that next years supply of trout
could be more generally distributed.
E. H. Hallett, president of the
Farmers association, spoke a few
words of welcome and expressed a
wish that all of the LOO farmers
of the county might be present and
later announced that the members
of the Farmers association are to
make exhibits gathered from the
demonstration plots at the fair this
week, and they would reward any
farmer outside of the association
who would make an exhibit that
would beat the association products.
He introduced S. N. Stimson, the
county agent.
S. N. Stimson.
Mr.. Stimson said there we're 26O
demonstrations of fertilizers in the ,
this year and then spoke of
the COW testing associations. In one
case it has shown a man that he is
giving $50 worth of feed to his COWS
per year and getting only SAG from
the COWS. In Orleans county it has
shown the average production per
cow to be IT'S pounds of butter per
year. This allows only five cents a
day to the man for feeding, caring
for and milking his cows. Caledonia
can be the best dairy county
and the best county for thorough
bred cattle if it will only work in !
harmony and follow proper methods.
John W. TitcOmb. :
Mr.. Titcomb was introduced as the g
oldest and most successful conserva-
ZIONIST of Vermont and spoke on t
The Value of Our Fish and Game i
Crop" After telling some good {
stories he said
You will agree with me that when {
ever you bring to your table a mess
Of fish, whether you caught it or not, I
it has market value. The same I
holds true in reference to any form I
Of wild game which is a luxurious i
substitute for meat from the butcher. t
II a member of your family fishes t
DR. hunts, figure up at market prices
what he, while indulging in his IA
Vorite recreation, contributes to the :
luxury of your table. 1t may be 10
nothing but suckers or bullheads- =
)ut the family larder and has a
market value. On this basis I in :
Ute you to figure up the value of =
Ill fish and game annually taken in =
Vermont
For convenience in arriving at my :,
estimate | will begin with the town =
If Danville where | am able to Sc :
,ure fairly reliable data. The mile e
lge of trout streams in this town is y
/ fair average for 200 towns. 1t q
S cOnSerVatiVely estimated that the /,
streams of Danville annually yield :
900 pounds of trout and that with .
his as a basis the annual catch in
he state is at least 100000 pounds.
Oomesticated trout shipped to New J
York or Boston net the breeder so :
,ents per pound, and the average re-
all price is much higher. l will =
therefore value the 100000 pounds :
If wild trout at 100000. =
Joe's Pond, 1 200 acres in area, =
fields at least 800 pounds of perch, :
)ickerel and other coarse fish per
week during the summer, or, con-
estimated during the six
months open season, 5000 pounds,
worth at the market IL cents per s
pound, or $500, i. e., so cents per b
acre. There are in Vermont some S
hing over 375 ponds with an area
If 116,20O acres Figuring the p
Yield of these at so cts. per acre gives d
/ value of production of $69,72O.
But many of these ponds and lakes I
afford good fishing for brook trout,
axe trout and landlocked salmon Y
worth 20 to so cent per pound. For t
take Caspian Lake at a
Greensboro, with an area of 1900
acres, which has been known to yield S
IN one season $4,000 pounds of sal
mon, lake trout and brook trout, of | 2
which. the average yield is over g.
200 pounds; Big Averill Lake of sim a
lar area and which, last year, un- r
1oubtedly yielded 10000 pounds of
axe trout and landlocked salmon. k
For such lakes, the yield is at least d
LOO per acre. 1 will therefore add b
% the value of the total yield of
axes in Vermont, for those having g
rout and salmon, $4,000, thus max a
ng a total for all ponds of about n