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bf June, thoro will be discovered
the first broods which have been
hatched; amountifig to millions in
some places, industriously engaged
in the daily destruction of fourteen
times their number. Col. Paul
Felder, of Orangeburg, testifies that
1,200 pbrch; as broad as two lingers,
and about tbre inches in length,
*,oro debtroyed by eleven trout in
three months. Is it to b0 wondered
at that fish ponds have not given
1atisfaction? It is not rather re
markable that they have yielded any
fish at all 7 Yet many of them have
been tho ootirco of no inconsiderable
supply. In the spring of 1876,
having occasion to r6pair my dain,
I drew down the water of.my pond
and caught 700 pounds of'edible
fish, consisting of trout, bream,
maw-mouths, red-bolliad perch and
suckers-the trout, of which there
Were only 100, weighing from four
pounds, which was tho heaviest; to
ono and a half pounds, the oldest
anm1d largest being four years old.
My pond is two acres aind a half in
extent. Myriads of young fish, the
weight of which is not re.ekoled in
the above. wre put back and are
now doing botter sinco the largetr
ones have been taken out. In fact.,
all pona)', including mill plonds.
sh-mll bo drained aLtl the i3h as
sorted at least every third year. It
should be borne in mind that the
700 pounds wore the product of the
pond with no assistance whatever,
except the occasional throwing in of a
lit tle grist, more for the purl-pjso of
attractiig the fish to certain localis
ties where I was in the habit of
us4ing the hook, than for regular
feeding, and that it was not the
result, of an uinusual accumulation,
for the pond had bmen sulj,eted to
vigorous lishing each year since its
Col) mclI eTI en t.
The truth is, that, meagro as have
been the results obtained by pisci,
culturists of this State, there is not
an instance, and I include myself, in
which we had a right to cx
pect better returns-1ot one in
which wo (deserved sucessH. I have
yet to hear of any one in this State
w~ho has made use of hatching boxes,
artificial focundation, or any of the
pasor applliances by means of
wich so much is being done else,
where. My experiments in artificial
batching haive been on an exceeding
ly small scale, mostly in tumblers,
soup iplates and in a rmall glass
aquariun, and more for the purp'loso
of testing the trut.h of the discovery
than for practicatl advanitage.
Seth (Green and other piseicultu
rists of thme North, who haive donte so
much for the country, p)ursuet( a
reguilar1 syst.emiatie, scentific rou tine
--first const.ructing p)onds with a
proper1 regard for water supply and
extent of surface, having due care)
ag~ ainust damage from freshets aLnd
other uinfavorable contingencies.
Then attention is given to the pro
curing and impregnating of egg..
These are hatched in boxes judi
ciously arranged for the purpose;
the yotng are then confined in
separate reservoirs, accordling to ngo
and size, because fishes of the same
size cannot swallow each other.
Ii.or( they atro regularly supl))ied
with ~ anilaal food, which is made to
t01 l0o of fishm diet untii
vio fontinalis), and compare results.
His fish produeo- about 600 eggs,
requires several months to hatch,
and about four years of careful
feeding to reach one pound in
weight. From one of our trout I
hove counted over sixton thousand
oggs, and they frequently roar two
broods in a year ; they can be
hatched in from four to six days,
and in four years would easily aver
ago four pounds in weight. Deduct
ton per cont.-usual loss from eggs
to fish-and you have 540 fry in one
instance, 14,400 in another. Now
allow half for casualties, and you
have 270 for ono, and 7,200 for the
other. Food them for four years
and the difference in weight is in
favor of the Southern fish by 28,530
pounds. The difference in flavor
is claimed for tho Salmofontinalis,
but I have yet to sco even the
epicure who would discard the
Grystes salmoides oither for pot or
pan purposes. As a gamo fish, ho
is little if at all inferior to the
brook trout. All can testify who
have had on- at the end of his rod
that he lacks neither pluck nor enor
gy. I do believe, with this fish
treated as are some at the North,
that it is practicable to add millions
of pounds to our supply, and yet I
anu not prepared to say that it is
the most valuable species for ponds ;
in fact I have always thought that
to some of the cyprinoid family
would be given the palm.
Whilst engaged on this article,
Mr. James M. Stewart, of Winns,
boro, furnished the following infor
mation : His mill dam broke dur
ing the last heavy rains and ran
down to the bottom. Il it were left
two trout, of several which I had
given him, and which wOre just two
years old. One Weighed two pounds
IInd three-qIarters, the other two
pouids and ono-quarter. Neither
had been fed artificially.
This infornmation is exceedingly
valuable, as it shows that larger re
sut,s as to weight c!anl be reached
than has been estimated, and that
c lear waters are by no means essen
hal, for Mr. Stewart's pond is situ
ated among tho reddest wid viad
steOpest hills of Fairfield, and is
after every rain .is muddy as a clay
hole,
I sugcest, inl coneusion, the for
mation of a society, which shall have
for its object tho advancement of
piscieulture, to be called "The
South Carolina Piscieultural Asso
ciati mit." This body, having such
by-laws and oflicers as may be
igreed uipon, conl meet with eithor
the State Grange or the State Agri
(ultural and Mechanical Society, or
with both, and could by assigning
experiment.s vith1 different IdIn(Is of
fish to different sections of the St:'te,
and by sending delegates to similar
bodies in other States, tend largely
to the speedy solution of the now
doubtful question so often asked
What is the best fish for the ponds
of this State ?
The problem ibefore us, then, is
to raise the young of a single por,
even where there dr*e thousands of
pairs in roach. D.o this, and fish
onsare a success.
p)ls Truo Snake St,ories.
"Do0 you want a snake story as is a
Rnake story ?" asked Uncle ,Jim
Clarke, rushing into the office in a
gr'eat state of excitoment. Of
course we wan ted a good snmakle story
and told him our columns are always
openi to snake and fish stories, pro
vided they are on thme mnaivelous
order and can be verified.
"Well," said Uncle Jim, "Grief
Brian killed fifty-eight moccasin
snakcs thme other day, and I can
prove it !"
"P'rov'e it by whom ?" we asked,
warmling np onl thme subljet.
"Why, by Grief himixself," was the
ready rely.
Grief is known in this conmmunity,
as a colored man "full of trumth," andl
Iwhile we could not imnpeach his
veracity, we asked dubiously, "No
other witness ?"
"0 yes, Mr. W. H. Quinn and his
daughter. Both of them sawv and
counted the sn kos after they wer,
killed, n M -) "'sn
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