Pike river near Tower and Pipestone falls, about eight 

 miles from Winton, Minn., supply much of the spawn. The 

 catch from Pipestone falls arrived at the state hatcheries last 

 week. In each place the "run" of the wall-eyes continues for 

 a week or more. There has been some complaint from North- 

 ern Minnesota, particularly from the vicinity of Tower, that 

 the fish commission is robbing the Northern waters to sup- 

 ply other districts of the state, .bred Myers, new member of 

 the board, has demonstrated to the satisfaction of those who 

 complained that the state was putting back mere than it took 

 out. 



Here is the way it works about: Say a female lays 10,000 

 eggs; nature would turn but 500 of these into fry, or little 

 pike. The state takes the 10,000 eggs and superintends the 

 fertilizing and hatching. The result is 6,000 fry. One-fourth 

 of the fry hatches is taken back to the waters from which 

 the spawn was taken. This would put 1,500 Jry back. This 

 gives the waters which yield the spawn three times the fry 

 which nature would have given them and leaves three-fourths 

 of the hatch for other waters. 



"Which I claim," says George Brad'ey, "is good business 

 method." 



Mr. Bradley is a banker whose home and business are in 

 Norwood. He is a veteran on the commission and will leave 

 his bank any day at all to don rubber boots and stand in the 

 middle of a cold stream catching pike spawn. There is no 

 salary attached to these commissioner jobs. It is all honor- 

 ary, and the members are there because they are interested 

 in game and fish protection and multiplication. 



The state owns a fish car, built especially to carry pike fry. It 

 will start out immediately delivering pike to countless lakes 

 and streams of Minnesota. Before June 1 the state will have 

 planted millions of pike fry which in a few years will be 

 plenty big enough to grace the frying pan; and, after all, is 

 there any fish much better eating than a fresh wall-eye? 



The highest mountain in Montana, Granite Peak, with an alti- 

 tude of nearly 13,000 feet, is in the Beartooth national forest. 



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