The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-01

that the other 80 per cent usually.
send a friend or one Of their EN-
ployees who as a RUE takes very lit.
tie interest in the work, and puts an
the fish IN at p place, and usaally
into the nearest stream regardless Oh
number or size.
Now J claim that ii Is lust as wrong
for applicants to treat their FISH in
this manner after the state has gone
to the expense or raising them. as Ii
would be for a man working for a
farmer who has given him some ex.
p~ensiye seed potatoes, to have him
plant them all ii II corner OF a field
in 4 pile and then expect to get a
crop In the fall.
The sportsmen cannot expect to inn
prove the fs'ling 10 a very great OK
tent regardless of the number Of FISH
given them by the State unless there
Is some individual. and also co-opera-
tive effort made on the part Of all
those Interested to do what they can
to improve present conditions.
In August ] put a notice in the
paper that anyone wanting fish to
plant in public waters could have
them by applying at the hatchery,
and how many applied? Just two,
which again proves how much active
interest is taken in just this one mat
ter by the majority Of sportsmen.
The past season has been the best
as far as production has been con
cerned, since the hatchery was start
ed FIVE years ago, and the sportsmen
should be grateful to Edward s. Hig-
gins, deceased, for the location OF a
hatchery here; as ii was thru his IN.
firing efforts that the commissioner
finally decided TO have a hatchery IN
Bennington County
This past season, We received,
i,a50.000 eyed brook trout eggs, and
10000 eyed lake trout eggs for hatch.
ing, aud Matched 81 ~ per cent. ii
this number. Out OF this number
we have distributed to applicants an
over the state, the following brook
trout fry $4,000. advanced Try 205.
coo; IL inch ingerlings. 72.0eG: a
inch angerlings $9l,500; 3 inch fish
and better. is, 200; winch makes =
total Of brook trout distributed OF
5SS.500. Out OF the 10000 fake trout
eggs received, we have distributed tc
applicants $500 3 inca fish.
The hatchery can stu be Improved
to o very great extent, md Till
should and can be done with the
backing of the sportsnlen, aud small
appropriations from the Fish aud
Game department fsom time % time
AT the present time an electric light
ing plant lis very much needed and
this ! think will be installed this fall;
also there should be several brood
pounds put in which can be done Al
very little expense considering the
natural surroundings on the hatchery
grounds.
Water is one of the first essentials
fer a successful hatchery. and at the
hatchery here. / consider the water
conditions ideal. after visiting nearly
all the large hatcheries in the East,
and several in Michigan. The spring
at the hatchery has a flow Of 240 gal
Ions a minute, Of an average tempera.
ture OF AZ degrees. In the five years
that the hatchery has been IN opera.
ton, the temperature has never been
lower than As degrees or higher than
Az degrees. One morning, two years
ago, when we aad such a severe
winter, the water was AZ degrees.
inside the hatchery building, without
any artificial heat, it was rs degrees
above zero, and outside Of the build
ing, it was rs degrees below zero, a
difference OF SO degrees due to the
running water in the hatchery.
Trout viii grow a great deal faster
in water at SIS degrees than they Will
in water at AZ degrees, so we have a
large receiving tank outside the
hatchery building with a fourteen
inch pipe coming from the spring,
and a fourteen inch pipe coming mon
"a small brook running thru the
hatchery grounds, into this tank, 50
that when the brook water gets
around 60 degrees, we mix this with
the water coming from TIC spring
which gives us a temperature Of "a
degrees running thru our troughs,
The eyed eggs are received from
-. a. AAtt a1Y