Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1915-02-04
GEORGE M|L[|MAh'S
FISH STORY

Editor, Audubon County journal.
| Extra, Iowa,
Dear Sir;
In looking over THE issue of the
JiournJal dated Jan. IA, noticed
Ian item stating that, "Tlle unusual
size of some game fish, cauglht in iu-
rlgation bitches in Wash. led to
ths belief that they had fat ened
ed themselves CHI alfadfa and an
Investigation proved the theory cor
rect"
/ Now, being a good and true
| VAST ingtonian by this time, just
naturally resent having my state mis-
represented in amy such mnnner.
| Ir the first place the aforesaid fish
would have to have rubber necks
| to reach out of the water to eat
| hay which grows along the banks;
lin the second place THE fish i'm the
irrigation bitches don't live long
enough to grow large, as THE dit
ches end in the fields and spread
out and Mr.. fish. finds himself in
shallow water and gets lonesome
fol drink and dies. In the third
place they employ ditch-walkers out
there who patrol back and forth day
in and day out and fish is no
equal to a ditch-walker and in the
fourth place the bitches all have
fish screens. You, have been ndsinl-
formed somehow
Now listen, and / will put you
next to the true facts in the case,
and if you don't believe il you just
ask Bill Brink. He wouldn't tell
stretchers for anything.
4 Instesd OF the fish feeding on
/ 1.-The alfalfa, it's the hogs that feed
on the fish. They have to keep hogs
/ alorg the bitches to eat the fish to
fish to keep them getting stranded
[ Thigh and dry in the alfalfa fields
and dying, from am over abundance
: / of fresh air. You know a fish cant
q stand too much fresh air amy more
than goat can stand eating al
E he wants.
3 AT first the ramchers Thought i
would be a great thing as fertilize1
0 but lit scents up the atmospher'
}. pretty much and the cows mill
/ tastes of it, somewhat. Fresh fish
s is alright but deliver me from thos.
g that die of inconsistencies.
Il There is one great drawback t.
ltl,e fish out here. The river
here get SO full of salmon tina
come up from the ocean to spawn
and in the meantime bruise them
selves ON the rocks and die the
the ducks live ON them and tast
n 50 fishey that no one will eatt the1
Il but the Siwashes and the reaso
: they eat them is because it save
them the job of cleaning the. fis
and say, how Siwash does hat
b. to. clean fish. In fact won 'tcom
e right out and say for sure that III
ID cares for cleaned fish anyhow. PEI
4. haps the reason they don't min
n the fish taste in the duck is beear
/ 1T saNes them the job of catclafn
N them. They kill two birds wit
e one stone and that is some achiaVe
m ment for Al Siwaslh, believe me.
Id You see, it's far better to tel
# the truth when it comes to LID
3 tie things like fish, as I'm sure
,e would be a calamity for some O
e Extras great fishermen to com
y way out here expecting to cate;
= overgrown game fish in irrigatiot
bitches only to find that som
e ditch-walker had beat them to il
When it comes to mountain trou
e deer, goats and grouse, just re
0 member that the Cascades are tn.
d. Alps of America and Winthrop i
i the Gem OF the Cascades
ell Yours for Truth and Civil,
e Righteousness.
George Milliman Jr.