Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-27

~. Be,1rad. uatsislry shot -
-r,,snned with &C IeA6t four poqers
ncoIs as soon as posl3ete.
49, Auto Trullses
II order to avail themselves OF an
abundant supply of purAwater most VI
Tho hatcheries are located quite ais
tance from the railroad. and mucn
time and expense is required TO get
their product to the trains and the
empty cans back.
Tn many instances the use OF MOD
ern auto truck would result IN q say
| ing of time and then, too, nsn ioI
| nIantinp could be delivered without
transfer and consequent delays direct
to waters to be stocked.
We do not recommend that eacn
hatchery should be provided with q
| truck but that a trial be mace at one
| or two hatcheries suitably located 1or
the economical use Of such means OF
| transportation.
Fish Car.
| We are indebted to our Maine Rail-
roads for many courtesies extended In
the TRANSFORMATION Of hatchery fish IN
baggage cars and the return OF the
|
| Occasionally consignfnents OF FISH to
one sporting region have been SO large
as to require an extra car, whlcn mas
always been provided, in short, the
railroads have co-operated IN every
way to make the transportation or FISH
over their lines as prompt as possible.
The purchase and equipment of an
up-to-date railway car would, however,
he of the greatest benefit and aid to the
efficient and economical distribution
of fish for stocking our inland waters.
Our railroads go into every county
and only our very remote waters are
not within comparatively short drive
by automobile from some station, so
that the tanks of a car could be filled
with fish and then transported to some
convenient point where they could be
met by automobiles, which on account
of the time saved by them are now
quite generally in use for transporting
fish from the railroads to the waters to
be stocked, and by such means the al
lotments for a whole county could fire.
uuently be made in one or two trips of
the car which under present conditions
require many weeks for distribution.
| Under methods used today, while the
distributions begin as soon as the
weather is suitably cool, they frequent
ly have to dribble along until the roads
are nearly impossible from mud and
occasionally until the waters to be
stocked are frozen over
In the spring distribution has to be-
gin before the roads are settled and
continues frequently until the weather
| &c tor arm 10
without a large percentage of loss
In order to get the best results the
fry should be out of the hatcheries by
the middle Of June and the fingerlings
should be out by the first Of Novem-
her.
The proper distribution Of these fish
is of the greatest importance to the
conservation of our fishing resources,
and means should be provided for MAX
hight of much more value than it can
be made under present conditions and
methods.
Concrete Trough Stands.
J. AS the trough stands in the hatch
cries have to be replaced, concrete
troughs and piers should be used in
place of the plank troughs and stands
now in use. At the present price of
clear pine, of which these are made,
concreter troughs would cost but little
more. especially when the cost Of main
tenance Of WOODEN ones is taken into
consideration.
One trough stand at the RAYMOND
Hatchery must be rebuilt next year
and concrete should be used instead of
wood.
Hatchery improvements.
Buildings at all hatcheries are kept
painted and in good repair, and the
grounds are kept in good order so that
they are q credit to the State and those
in charge Of them.
Auburn.
This hatchery was operated by the
State under a lease from it's owners,
the Lake Auburn Fish Protective Asso-
citation, for twenty years, the lease ex-
piring in November, 1915.
1t has now been decided to the State.
the consideration being that 10000 two
year-old land-locked salmon shall be
annually planted in Lake Auburn.
A new concrete dam has been built
this year creating a large feeding pool
of spring water.
A new plank and earth dam has also
been built to replace an old one which
was carried out by a freshet during the
summer.
Tile or metal drains should ron,ace
the open bitches which carry off tho
overflow from the pools and hatchery
troughs.
Belgrade.
repairs have been made on tho
staple, and the house wired for electric
lights. ~
Camden.
Another room has been finished for .
sleeping room ard interior repairs On
house. VII
Caribou.
The land occupied by this ba+ch.r,,
was taken over by the State under
legal proceedings in 1918 but the wa~d
OF damages by the County Cow
lnlssioners not being satisfactory 70
those representing the interests ~ tho
state, the matter went to the 7 eg;sIa
lure OF 1915 for adjustment. The form-
er owners of the land were ardad
.he sum of eighteen hundred dollars
'hree hundred dollars being annronr;'
ateo by the Legislature towards III,
amount and fifteen hundred dollars No.
ing PAID out of the general fund ammo