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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1882)
96 Way, i88j I THE WEST SHORE. waters are stocked. And Austria has deprived thousands and thousands of htr acres of their natural growth and utilized them in the cultivation of these food-fishes. From records, I see that the Printed of .StlivmrUenbcrg have had more than 20,000 acres occupied in the project. And from Southern Ho- hernia there was sent to the Vienna markets, in three years, 1 ,525,000 pounds of carp fish, the revenue of which reaches an amount equal to $305,000. As experience has demonstrated that a growth of one ton per acre is obtain able, we find that to produce this worth of fish-food in one year would require the cultivation of but fiSo acres; or the occupancy of 227 acres, in the propaga tion, would each year have remunerated to the extent of $jo2,ooo, and in three successive crops, $305,000. If we had the markets of Vienna to supply, what greater industry would the yeomanry of inn country wish to place their atten tion to any labor on than the propaga lion of food.fishcs, at the handsome re turn of $.oo per acre. Were there the Markets, or had we the consumption at large for such nn amount of food fish, what happy revenue would result? Cor lrations Woilj )C f , . granted and piscatorial Iram-hiso rivin ur farmers lay down two-thirds of meir acreage each year to wheat, th practice no diversity of crops, and have - murn 01 something like 40 bushels - cre, ami with 200 acres the ag Kregatc is 8,000 btishelsa ........ l'ich sold at one dollar a bushel, bring, 3.VfW 1I1. .'11 . 0 - --1 .mi jnciu is $40 to the acre, I U'A 1 I. ...I - ... " V( , , ,lu milwcd in carp cub Jure would yield the first season 448,000 ' wnic" sold at the com- ''" rue abroad, gives ,he Cllllurist 'c enormous sum of $S9,ooo-iust ten hat the wheat bough, Fro,,,egemisf ma t 1 "c present distribution of r.. fir nf,K found Sih... .. .. .. aa Aorwav - lH"er spec . r . "" merely casting some of these fish in a convenient slop hole a successful propa gation will result. Quite the contrary. Interest by the culturist himself manifested in the. man agement of his property is the quality preventing the care bestowed upon them assuming the harsh appellation, labor. And it is not advisable for any person to undertake the rearing of carp who is devoid of that sense admitting of a complete appreciation of the enjoyment resulting therefrom. And it is not, at the present time, an enterprise of any immediate assurance of remuneration to the people who will engage in it as an industry. Natural bodies of water, or those arti ficially constructed, can be used in carp raising. And while the difference be tween the two is not of any material consequence, the latter is to be preferred. The former being a work of nature, contains the proper plant-food and in fusorial life, and maintains the rich con dition of its bottom; but must be such a sheet of water, however, as can be easily controlled. For through a lack on this part the ponds become inundated and the work receives a doubly fatal blow, whereby the earn are Dermic to escape, and other fish of a predacious nature allowed to enter and destroy the "....auiueroi tne precious fish. But in a pond artificially rnn.tr.,. no predatory fish can have nT:..... existed, and the necessary vegetation is soon supplied. A rank growth of reeds does not already exist. m,i fu. .... . , , mc IU5SOCK land., so well fitted for the abode of u,c '""pmoous enem es nf t, evil objects avoided. The water sup: DlV is earn v : i r , . ., nvu! ,n ompr an i , ana the aauat o . ' ihu.lf t. soon Prduces V . . ine construction of these Ponds it is best to miw i . tne earth lunL. .1. .. . M With lh 7 rid all the thro" POn he r SU" can n At ? 00 the surfoce of the ums uepends thp u . Ul nentoftheeggs th0rOUghdeoP- lne area and nnm. consideration the 7' ' p0nd8 is " the pl8,culturist himself has the power of determining. But it I is better to have several small pJ than one large one. These should k fed, if practicable, by field ditches court ing from adjoining farmlands or grew fallows, and in no instance shnu .v. L - ' 'W.iA I..," J T " ponus nave connection with any dash brook or stream which other fish habit as this is the only possible way in whli the ponds can be preserved fro. f other fishes. At the bottom of ! pond a mam ditch should be dug with smaller ones connected therewith- tk t . .... ' ,C ' purposes 01 tnese will be discovered when occasion demands a draining f the ponds or when the fish are required to be caught, by their immediately ult. ing harbor in these available refuges, excavations by crawfish, a pest which ;' mvaiiaoiy congregates in any living body of water, should be guarded against by having the embankment il the outflow properly compounded of some suoiect difficult of bein? bored, i Muskrats might prove a source of de- struction to the ponds in one night's time by burrowing into and put of the I pond, hence their riddance is admon ished. Cows, pigs, chickens, "or anr I birds of prey, should always be kept I away from the grounds. f I The ponds containing the smaller carp should have shallow and even bol- toms to receive good influence from the sun. No brush or trees should stand ia . such proximity as to cast shades into i the ponds or shed their leaves therein, t The division of the fishes according j to their age and size should suggest the arrangement of the Donds. Eachbond I should have communication with the otherand in the lower the older carp should be placed, and in the next the t succeeding ratio, ad infinitum. Then the proper periods of growth of the 5 fishes arrive, each lot can be easily drODDed to its nrnnpr' nfiarters. The r 1 -1 , j aptness of the ponds to become solidly t frozen in the winter season require some precautionary measures to be I taken. A stead v flow of water through the nonria cKniiM ha mninf ained. and I which can be by simply placing a bundle t ot straw at the entrance of the wat mto the pond and one at the ' thereof. . : r: " : r ' A general destruction of fish mJ occur in summer if the water becpm so low in hot weather that vegetable "nd animal matter beeins to putrify iscum becomes prevalent. A heavy ram WeSQE!tS.