24 HOME FISHING AND HOME WATERS. 



sources would be taxed to the utmost. Under this 

 state of affairs the fish supply would be drawn upon 

 to its fullest extent, and when nature's methods 

 were found to be inadequate to supply the unnatural 

 drain, the discovery of artificial fish culture would be 

 brought to its relief. Without this, fish must have 

 disappeared with the game. 



The advance of civilization is fast driving the 

 monarchs of the forest and prairie out of existence. 

 The deer, the bear, and the buffalo are becoming 

 scarce in their native haunts, and not many more 

 generations will have passed, before our descendants 

 will gaze in wonder at the stuffed specimens now 

 preserved in our museums ; at the creatures which 

 ages ago roamed wild and free over the very ground 

 where large cities have sprung up and flourished. 



Agriculture and fish culture should go hand in 

 hand, and I am much gratified to see the interest 

 which is displayed on the part of the farmers in the 

 cultivation of fish. 



The fish culturist in re-stocking depleted waters, 

 has many things to contend against which can be 

 avoided in dealing with stock on our farms. We 

 cannot keep the fish separated. We oftentimes find 

 that certain waters are adapted to the most choice 

 varieties of fish, and in the same localities will be 

 found some of their most deadly enemies. 



If would be a fair comparison if the farmer should 

 put a wolf in his sheep pasture. Now if the farmer 

 found it necessary to do this, he would do as the fish 

 culturist has to do, put in enough sheep so as to have 

 some left, after the wolf had satisfied his voracious 

 appetite. 



