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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1959)
MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdforJ, Or. Thtirsdiy, July 23, 1959 Research Continues on Fish Pond Development in Oregon Corvallis - Oregon has long been famous the country over for her fine seafood, but when it comes to pond fish that's a different matter. The idea of farm fish ponds as a profitable business ven ture Is just beginning to catch on in the state, according to Carl E. Bond, Oregon State college associate professor of fish and game management. Farmers in some states - Alabama, for instance go in for raising pond fish in a big way. There, an acre of farm land turned into a fertilized pond can produce 400 pounds of fish. The same acre of land would produce only about half that much meat if in pas ture or feed crops for cattle or hogs. Bond hastened to mention these figures would not be true in Oregon, how ever. 12.000 Artificial Ponds There are about 12.000 arti ficial Donds in Oregon, but fish are stocked in only about 1.000 of them. Most of the ponds are used for irrigation fire Drotection. stock water ing, or swimming. Many of these ponds also could raise fish handily. Bond maintains They could provide the farm er's family and neighbors with ample fishing. He might also consider selling nsn, or even charging to let others fishHhe pond. History shows early settlers found only three kinds of fish "worth eating" in the Oregon country: salmon, trout and sturgeon. They longed for pond fishes they used to catch "back home" and went to great lengths to Import carp and bass. - In 1883, a carload of young carp was shipped west by train from Washington, D. C. As a special treat, thoughtful hostesses served carp for Thanksgiving dinner that year. Bass Imported Bass were brought to the West Coast about the same time. However, there seems to be some question about the year bass were first planted in ponds. Apparently plant ings were made stealthily, lacking official sanction, and no records were kept. There's only one bass farm in dregon today. It belongs to Gerald Falk, east of Harris burg, according to Andy Landf orce, OSC extension wildlife management special ist. In contrast to early bass plantings, Falk has official ap proval for his. In fact, he got help from the Soil Bank plan and the Soil Conservation Service to build his three ponds. OSC's agricultural exten sion service coordinated ef forts between the State Game commission and the OSC farm fish pond research team to get 24 adult largemouth bass from another private pond for his brood stock a year ago. Hobm For Good Hatch Fallc sold his first croD of largemouth bass fingerlings this spring. He hopes to get a trood hatch this summer and have a large number of bass fingerlings to sell for stock ine ournoses in the fall. His ponds are among those being watched as part of an .OSC eight-year study to find kinds of fish and manage ment practices best for Ore gon farm ponds. In addition to studvins nrivate ponds OSC has constructed four fish ponds of its own in which tests are being run for the first time this year. Studies are being made of crannies, yellow perch, bull head catfish, rainbow trout and bhiegills, as well as bass No Recommendations Research isn't far enough along to make any recommen dations. However, enough in formation has been obtained to know that recommenda tions made in other states do not aDDlv to Oregon: Land force reports. In fact, condi tions vary so much within Oregon that advice for one area doesn't hold true for an other. One revelation turned up to date Is that farm fish ponds THE LITTLE WOMEN Middletown, Conn. - (UPD -Asked why he was late in court to face bigamy charges by his first wife, Worthing ton Spencer blamed his sec ond wife for not waking him up in time. The Colorado state capital building in Denver is exactly one mile above sea leveL aren't being fished enough. Too many fish in the pond lead to stunted growth, Land- force explained. Progress reports are being sent to county extension agents as information is ob tained from the study. Per sons interested in farm fish pond recommendations can contact county agents for up- to-date suggestions. Likewise, the county agent would like to hear of successful practices employed by pond owners Wall Street Chatter New York-(DPD-Although the stock market has risen to new all-time highs this year, there still are a number of stocks which have failed to scale their 1929 peaks. Investor's Reader, publish ed by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, has made a partial tabulation of the below-1929 list, and it in cludes a number of blue chips. The rails dominate the list, headed by the Pennsylvania and New York Central, both of which are at levels some 80 per cent below their 1929 highs. Central, for example, is selling around $30 a share compared with its 1929 high of $256. Others on the list include ACF Industries, American Telephone, Anaconda, Borden, Cities Service, Consolidated Edison, Illinois Central, Jones & Laughlin, Radio Corp. of America, Studebaker Pack ard, Western Union and Wool worth. Investor's Reader notes that while the past may provide some valuable clues, a stock's future prospects should be an investor's primary concern. ' It says some companies in the before-1929 list may pos sess a potential which could bring them far beyond their THIRD DEGREE Memphis, Tenn. -DPD- Joe Giles, suspecting that his dog had made off with a missing $5 bill, had his suspicions con firmed when he offered the pooch a $1 bill which the pooch promptly tried to chew up. 1929 peaks, while for others the outlook may be dark. "All of which again proves individual stocks move in in dividual patterns," the maga zine adds. "As one old-timer recalls: 'Western Union was awfully strong in the early days of the 1929 crash. 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