The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-27

bridge who yesterday bought of JOS
eph F. Stark such portions of the So
called Newton farm in South Vernon
as are considered necessary for the
operation of modern plant. The sale
includes the land on which the state
built a rearing plant two seasons ago
together with water rights, fowage
rights, etc. Mr.. Stark, who recently
bought the Newton farm and will move
upon it this fall, will be engaged by the
commissioner to look after the station,
where it is planned to rear next season
enough trout to stock the streams of
/ Windham and Windsor counties. For
the present the fish will be hatched at
the Bennington plant, but it is possible
shat the Vernon property will be de-
veloped into a hatchery later, the wa
ter supply being unusually favorable
Commissioner Leavens was in Brat
tleboro yesterday to complete the tran
saction and talked interestingly of af-
| fairs of his department. He said that
| two shipments of brook trout finger
lings were to be sent to the Windham
| County Fish & Game club for distri-
button hereabouts next week, and that
later more brook trout fingerlings to-
gether with a generous consignment of
steelheads would be shipped to the To-
cal organization. Part of the fish will
come from the Bennington hatchery
and the remainder from the hatchery
in Canaan.
4 Mr.. Leavens is well pleased over the
| EaI, nH
hunting licenses for the year ending
, June 30 amounted to approximately
, $51 900, large increase over the pre-
vious season This revenue puts the
| fish and game department of the state
on an entirely self-supporting basis and
( enables it to do work that otherwise
would be out of the question. Mr.
Leavens is convinced, however, that
the law which forbids him to pay
county wardens more than $75 montl
and deputy wardens more than 50 {
iday must be amended if an efficient
n organization is to be maintained. II,
also believes in the passage of a law
making an open zone for deer aroun(
: commercial fruit orchards of more thar
t five acres, but aside from these few
r changes he believes that the next legis
{. lature may well leave the fish and gam,
e code alone.
G As soon as possible COMMISSIONS
Leavens viii take up with officials 0
:, the American Realty Co. the propo
y sition of permanently closing the smal
: streams on the lands which the com
:, pany controls in the northern part o
J this county and adjoining portions 0
- Bennington county. From his exper
T. ience with this method of trout con
servation as tried in the northern pan
of the state Mr. Leavens feels positiv
+ that it should be done wherever po:
le sible With the tributaries permanen
" closed to fishing the supply of trou
r in the main streams is bound to il
r crease rapidly He hopes it will /
possible to close the small brooks whic
IN feed Winhall river, the Bald Mountai
= and Pixies Falls streams, the Ward
boro branch and possibly others, Clio
% ling of the small streams is said to
n favored by Realty Co, officials, not OF
NJ " because of the Improvement in fisl
4. ing that is likely to result but becaus
re of the lessened fire hazard that wi
K. exist if fishermen have no occasion |
in visit the woods through which the
small streams flow.