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Show FISH ASTD J I'EKftl.TlKK. .Salt Laki: City, Dec. :. 7n. KM,,;- Ilrrnhl : A careful perusal of the articles ou Csh and oyster culture, in the Agricultural Agricul-tural lb-post hi' l-r'--., discloses the fact that tho-e ii ,c.-ted in the prop-aeation prop-aeation of the-- much-needed produc-can produc-can find in them a fund of very valua ble information as to the i,i',df iqit, audi adopted in the Kisleru States, in Europe, Africa and China, based upm tlie'uxperiencc and;obscrvationsof maro years of indefatigable labors by em neut fish and oyner farmers. Son twenty-live pages are devoted tjth cultivation of lish and about twelv.-pages twelv.-pages to the propagation aud euhii of oy.-tei-. Si mie eiht of these page, are illustrated. showing the implements, apparatus and other means employed, and the gradation and changes that take place in the successive stages of the art. Will you please transier this information infor-mation to the columns of your paper, so that ail interested and 1 trust they number many may take advantage of the lessons thus- freely given, as, .owing to the limited number of the report sent to the Territory, it will be impossible impos-sible for all cur people to obtain the information direct from the work itself. The following extracts will partially illustrate il-lustrate the value of the treatise : Air. Seth Greeu of Mimford, X. Y., says: "I began to operate June 18th, at Ilo'yoke, on the Connecticut river, and hatched about 40,000, OUU shad by July 12th. Shad cannot be hatched successfully in warmer water than 7S degrees. Their spawn cannot be carried car-ried more thau a two days' journey. All the water of this country can be filled with fish adapted to them. Every acre of water is worth two acres of land, if properly farmed. Spend one-thousandth one-thousandth part of the sum spent in tilling the land, in cultivating the water, and fish may be sold in our markets at two cents per lb. Last season I hatched about half a million trout, and sold about that number of trout spawn. I send the spawn to any part of the United States, by express, and have sent them to the Kocky .Mountains by mail and express. The young fish can be sent almost any distance dis-tance in January or February. 1 have trout growing in almost every State of the Union. All the spring streams in the country can be etocked with trout." He gives minute directions for the care of the trout, the mode of packing for transportation, and the proper management iu hatching. He sends eegs to all parts of the country and to Europe, without loss, packing in moss within a tin bucket, which is placed in another vessel, with sawdust between Lliem to guard against sudden changes of temperature. The average tempe-'.a'ure tempe-'.a'ure of the water, iu Mr. Green's troughs, is 4-3 degrees, and the fish hatch in 70 days. Every degree colder or warmer wiii make about six days' difference in hatching. Trout hatch the soonest iu warm water. "All old streams and ponds.'' he says, "have plenty of food for small trout and large, which you will find b'y examining examin-ing the muss, sticks and stones in your ponds and streams, ns they are full of water insects. Stephen (.'. Ainsworth. nf Weil Bioomfield, New lork, says "In the fall of liGO I took 21,000 spawn, and hatched 20,000 fishes Some of them died soon after they began to cat, owing to insufficient water. The remainder re-mainder I put into neighboring pot.ds and brooks. In 1S69 I took ITiA'O 'pawn. All hatched but fifteen. They are now (Juiy 29, ISO.) from cue and a half to four inches long, very fat, and as tame as kittens. From my experience ex-perience I am satisfied that one inch of water from 4S to 02 degrees, with proper care and fixtures, will hatch one hundred thousand trout. Four years since I put a few trouts, just hatched, into a spring pond in this vicinity. Last summer some were caught that weighed two pounds each. This demonstrates how rapidly they will grow in deep, cold water, with ample room, aud abundant natural food. I have grown 1,5W to weigh ;j lbs. to 3 lbs. each, with only I inch flow of water. With a good spring with 1 i inch of water, one may raise all the trout he needs for his table, with trifling expense. A dam may be pushed across any spring brook, with a screen to prevent the fish frcm running run-ning over the dam; and by graveling the stream well above the pond, large numbers may be grown naturally every year." "Experienc shows that from a trout of one pound about one hundred hun-dred eggs is the average yield." "The facility with which the brook trout can be propagated in .situations having a constant supply of spring water, is well illustrated by an experiment made in Pennsylvania, and reported by the editor of the Turf, Field and Farm, in which 1,200 trout, weighing lb. each, were bred in a large horse trough at a country tavern, and fed upon ofl'al from the kitchen and curds from the dairy." "Oyster culture, in France and England, Eng-land, yields to those thus engaged, 1000 per cent profits. The expense of rearing rear-ing them Ls so trifling, and th return, so large, that thousands of the seafaring seafar-ing people of Fiance have gone into the business, aud many of tho inland vine-growers and general farmers have removed to the coast, in order to try their luck in this new industry. Half a million of breeding oysters, laid down in the royal grounds, Paris, iu ljG3, are said to havo yielded 7,000,000 young ones. A single female oyster contains about 2,000,000 ova, ail of which, under favorablu circumstances should develop into perfect oysters." Respectfully, Yours, 1c, A Milton Mussbii, Chairman of Fish Committee. |
