Show GUESSER IS OUSTED government Emp employed toyed man to estimate fish weight expert who had to tell on n sight number of pounds in each salmon bought for breeding bangor mo ile the official guesser orthe united states government haill baa lost his job for years year tho the government has bought live salmon upon tho the good eye of 0 a veteran fisherman who took a squint at each fish and then put down in ills his book what he guessed to be the right weight the bills were paid LC accordingly cordin gly thou thousand sands af dolzko dolZ dol cwb zo every year tho the government buys buy from to 1000 lle live salmon tor for breeding weir owners owneta on an the bucksport Buck luck sport verona adona orland and penobscot shores the price paid Is the market rate from rom 20 to 30 cents a pound with 60 cents bonus for or one each fish tor for tl trouble ol of keeping them alive to get at the exact weight ot of a live salmon la in practically impossible for it la Is very delicate work at best in dipping them from the pound in the weirs to the ear car which to Is an old dory filled with water carefully lined with cotton flannel and covered w with ith a netting which Is covered outside with canvas the utmost caution la Is ne necessary cessy for in the spring the salmon Is strangely strang ply delicate so bo it Is that them to ie entirely out of the question the government has for years hired a veteran fisherman to make t the b 0 rounds of tho the weirs on the little power boat and keep account ot of the fiffi all the man mail had to go by was his hl lodgment judgment but he could tell by a glance at a fish even in the semidarkness ot of car about what it would weigh ten twelve fourteen or perhaps sixteen or eighteen poupas it was guessing but by years of experience in handling fish he could guess very near at any rate his guessing was accepted for years by the fishermen who sold the fish as an well as by the government perhaps the government officials in washington approve of paying out money by guess whatever may have been the conclusion the government guesser has lost his lob job hereafter twelve pounds will bo be the fixed weight of 0 every salmon balmon paid tor for it may weigh eight pounds or it may weigh twenty pounds but the fishermen are to bo be paid for or a twelve pound fish and no more nor less this weight la Is below the average as ait the lah fish run but ot of course the fisherman herman Ce to Is not obliged to sell cell an eighteen or twenty at tho the twelve pound basis to the government unless he chooses chooser ile he can send it to the mar bets the government Is IB buying 1000 fish this year which at the twelve pound standard will cost from 3 to a ish fish |