190 Fish and Game Warden. [Bull. No. 1. 



Having practiced these wholesale methods for two or three 

 decades, let us now consider whether we might not profit by a 

 little less fish hatching and a little more fish raising. Does 

 salvation lie only in a multiplicity of expensive federal and 

 state hatcheries ? If our fishery establishments were equipped 

 to raise and market one per cent of the fry now being hatched 

 and liberated, might not the quantity of food thus produced 

 exceed that which eventually reaches market by way of the 

 public waters. Let us simplify our art and teach it to the 

 people, for they can surely help in the production of fish food. 



FISH AND FISH CULTURE ON THE FARM. 



The following article, contributed by Major W. L. Brown, of Kingman, 

 Kan., speaks for itself. Major Brown has been raising fish for years, in 

 his farm ponds, and speaks from a knowledge gained by experience. He 

 has built ponds and raised a good supply of fish; he is willing to "stand 

 right up in meetin' " and testify to the fact that with him the business 

 has been a success, looked at from the standpoint of both pleasure and 

 profit; and being convinced that it is a good thing, he does not hesitate 

 to say to others, "Go and do likewise." 



"Write an article," says Professor Dyche, "for the bulletin, 

 giving your experience in fish culture and your ideas of the 

 benefits derived from being the possessor of ponds well stocked 

 with fish." 



Like a good soldier, I will comply with the request, but am 

 aware of the fact that I probably will get in deep water with 

 the professor, in regard to minor matters, such as the proper 

 tone a bullfrog's voice should be pitched, and the wrangle, as 

 old as the Darwinian theory, as to the value of the carp as a 

 food fish. 



Leaving out those two matters, which might cause the dis- 

 cussion, I will simply say that in my opinion there is no branch 

 of our state government that is doing more, not only for the 

 present generation, but for the generations yet to come, than 

 is the Fish Hatchery, in its development of the fish interests 

 of the state, and in its distributions of the finny tribe that it is 

 making, one of whose recipients I have been. 



No man should make an assertion unless he can back it up 

 with proof. Hence my plea for the fish pond, well stocked, is 

 based on several tenable reasons. First, I am a great believer 

 in irrigation in Kansas, which belief has been emphasized by 

 the season of 1913, and am satisfied, from the attitude of our 

 people, that in a very few years there will be hundreds of 

 thousands of acres of land irrigated, especially in the localities 

 known as the shallow-water districts. 



In my judgment, in order to get the best results from irri- 

 gation it is necessary to have a reservoir where the water can 

 be stored and tempered by the elements, and where a larger 

 head can be secured than by direct pumping. Granted that 



