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are coming to, that a private fish pond is a 

 splendid source of food supply. It was not 

 long time ago when such a thing had not been 

 thought of. Now generally there is a com- 

 prehension that such a private pond costs little 

 to maintain, and is almost sure to furnish far 

 more fish than any one family can eat. The 

 demand for fish adapted to this kind of pond 

 culture is greater than the supply, and farmers 

 enterprising enough to have ponds have no 

 difficulty in selling the product. Many farmers 

 sell eggs as well as fish to other farmers and to 

 the government of state and nation. Private 

 fishing clubs are a great aid in the same way. 

 Fish can be shipped anywhere if they are kept 

 cool and moist, and this makes it easy to find 

 a market almost boundless in extent. But fish, 

 of course, are subject to diseases that at times 

 cause large losses, and the official fish service 

 is at work constantly finding out these diseases 

 and their remedies. Most of these diseases, it 

 is said, come through impure water caused by 

 contaminated streams. If the water is kept 

 pure, the fish farmer has little cause for worry 

 as to his "crop." 



More Pheasants. 



We wish to inform The Sportsmen's 

 Review, Cincinnati, Ohio, that Ohio is 

 to have "more pheasants." This is offi- 

 cial. The license to breed the birds and 

 to shoot, sell and eat costs only 50 cents 

 and a capable state game officer will 

 supervise the new industry. Our read- 

 ers are sending thousands of eggs and 

 pheasants into Ohio and we predict the 

 Parker gun and the Remington guns and 

 ammunition will be used extensively in 

 that State — now that a limited amount 

 of sport will be provided. The prohibi- 

 tion of sport in Ohio touched us keenly 

 since the State used to be a good shoot- 

 ing ground, one of the best in the 

 world. 



More Tuna. 



The Sportsmen's Review says : 

 In California the tuna industry has grown 

 to such proportions that at the present time 

 it is one of the largest among commercial 

 fisheries. 



The tuna industry has grown until now it 

 is the largest of our commercial fisheries. 

 During the past season, the canners of south- 

 ern California put up 3,500 cases, which were 

 worth, wholesale, about $1,000,000. The weight 

 of the fish required for this number of cases 

 was 25,000,000 pounds, or more than double the 

 total, weight of salmon taken in the state. 

 Besides this, 1,000,000 pounds were salted, 

 dried or fresh. The long-finned tuna, the only 

 variety canned, is a fish of wide distribution, 

 and spawns in the tropical waters of Mexico. 



It comes north in countless numbers, following 

 the schools of sardines upon which it feeds. 

 It is not believed that the present large take of 

 tuna will seriously reduce the supply. At least, 

 no action is contemplated to restrict fishing, 

 as no young or spawning fish are taken in the 

 state waters. 



Conservation in Minnesota. 



Fins, Feathers__and Fur, the official 

 bulletin of the Minnesota Game and Fish 

 Commission, well says that the compli- 

 cated and more or less stringent laws 

 have failed to save or stay to any great 

 extent the sure and steady diminution of 

 the game for the reason that adequate 

 machinery for the carrying of the laws 

 into effect has not been provided. Laws 

 alone never have and never will save the 

 game from extermination. A compre- 

 hensive, honest and intelligent system of 

 enforcement is as essential as the laws 

 themselves. Minnesota, we are told, 

 was one of the earliest of the States to 

 set up the stringent safeguards. 



We read in a Maine report long ago 

 that the entire State militia would be in- 

 adequate to properly save the game. This 

 is quite true everywhere. The trouble 

 is, as we have often pointed out, that 

 the shooting of only two or three birds 

 in a season by a big army of sportsmen 

 is entirely too much because it is an ex- 

 traordinary destruction and tends to de- 

 stroy the stock birds left by vermin. The 

 game never vanishes in places where the 

 shooting is heavy provided it is properly 

 looked after and protected from its nat- 

 ural enemies. We have seen thousands 

 of birds shot on a few hundred acres 

 year after year without any danger of 

 extinction because vermin did not get 

 much game and the sportsmen left some 

 for breeding stock. It requires persistent 

 daily effort, to keep the game sufficiently 

 plentiful to warrant any shooting. 

 Sportsmen willing to make such effort 

 should be encouraged to do so. 



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