Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-04-23
WALTON LEAGUE
Establish Trout Pond Here.

Inc local Izaak Walton chapter has
established a trout pond on the old
hnoKe farm near Pine Knob, now
owned and occupied by Mentor Rech.
A pond 6Ox2O feet, formerly used as
an Ice pond, has been cleaned up and
made ready for a hatchery 1t is fed
py natural spring and is so located
as 10 be entirely immune from storm
or flood waters.
Inc German Brown trout fry will
De placed in the pond in few days
1hey will remain there until fall
when 1t is expected they will be six
or seven inches long. They will then
De seemed out and placed in Grant
This process will be repeated yearly
Inc league has purchased four sets
OF English Ring Neck Pheasant eggs
at cost of $4 a set. The eggs will
be Matched under hens and the pleas
ant chicks left with the old hen to
be mothered. When able to shift for
themselves they will drift to the
woods, deserving their foster mother
Planting Salmon Trout Eggs.
Merrill fishermen have planted
100000 salmon trout eggs into Lin
coin county streams.
Trout Season Opens May 1.
The trout fishing season opens on
May LIST and local anglers are plan
ming on the initial cast. There is no
longer a size limit, but bag limit
of rs day is the law.
Ice SmOtherS Game Fish.
Pra. du Chen fishermen report
that a large quantity of the finest
game fish, sunfsh, bass, croppies,
perch, pickerel, ETC., were smothered
to death by ice in Sunfish slough near
the city last winter The water was
quite low in the fall and the slough,
which is a mile long, fell to a depth
of 21a feet. During the extremely
cold weather ice froZe to the bottom
and the fish persisted.
Conservation of Woodland.
Conservation commission figures
show that not less than a million
acres of forest land in thi estate
were burned over in 1928. Millions OF
young trees were killed, thousands
of birds destroyed, game damaged
and scenery devastated. The COM
mission is making a special drive to
reduce uncontrolled fires in the state.
Most of the fires are started in To-
cal way and town chairmen who are
also fire wardens are asked to assist
in preventing the great and unneces-
sary loss.
WinnisIliek Case Up to Washington.
The Supreme court OF the UnlteG
States will review evidence IN the
Winnishiek drainage and reclamation
project some time soon. The august
body will review the case entirely
from printed briefs which have Deen
submitted by each side. The case was
first decided by Judge Smalley IN raw
or of the project when court authority
was asked for. At the same time the
war department placed approval on
the project A few weeks ago the Wis
consin Supreme court ruled against
the project and the promoters I'M
mediately appealed to the U. 5. court.
FRAN Suckers and Red Horse.
The Oneida County Fish and came
protactiye association has requested
the Wisconsin Conservation commits
sion for permission to place nets IN
the streams for trapping suckers ana
red horse. 1t is the contention OF the
association that these fish eat most
of the pike spawn, and for this reas-
on the supply of pike in the waters OF
Oneida county is decreasing, regard
less of the planting OF a large amount
of pike fry each year. The assocla-
ton has voted to purchase a supply
Of wild rice and wild cherry seed tor
planting in the county lakes Tor
duck food. With plenty of feed, sports
men will be assured Of good duck
hunting in the county during the
season.