Dec. 7, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
737 
can be stated as a rule, that has very few excep¬ 
tions, that the sooner a fish is cooked and eaten 
after it has been taken from the water and killed, 
the better it is. It follows then that the best way 
for Kansas people to get good, fresh fish is to 
raise them, and the nearer they are raised to the 
place of consumption, the better they will be. 
Kansas has many good fish streams. They 
have been abused by turning sewage into them. 
The fish interest of the whole people has been 
greatly injured by certain individuals who have 
taken fish by unfair means and thus depleted the 
streams of breeding fish. It is believed that the 
above abuses can be corrected, and that Kansas 
streams can be made to produce a good crop of 
fish each year and yet sufficient breeding stock 
left to insure a next year’s crop. It will be a 
good part oi the business of the fish hatchery to 
help bring about such conditions. The hatchery 
will do everything in its power by disseminating 
knowledge of fish and all things pertaining to 
fish and the fish culture business to help each 
individual who is in any way interested in the 
fish business. 
HACHERY THE BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD TO LEARN 
ABOUT FISH. 
Those who desire to learn about fish and the 
best methods of raising and handling them 
should visit the State fish hatchery. With a hun¬ 
dred ponds in operation and every kind, size and 
age of fish in the ponds, an opportunity would 
be furnished for gaining a great deal of infor¬ 
mation in a short period of time. 
Studied and looked at from their food habits, 
fish can be divided in a general way into two 
groups — vegetable feeders and animal feeders. 
All young fish eat nearly the same kind of food, 
minute forms of animal and plant life. As they 
grow older and larger such fish as the carp, buf¬ 
falo, the red-horse, in fact all the suckers, are 
essentially vegetable feeders. Such fish as the 
bass, catfish, the crappies and the sunfish are 
essentially animal feeders. However, the catfish, 
even when grown, eat more or less vegetable 
matter, and the crappies and sunfishes eat a 
little vegetable matter, especially when they are 
young. However, the great bulk of the food of 
the bass, the catfish, the crappie and the sunfish 
is animal. I hese fish feed very largely upon 
other fish, especially upon minnows and the 
young of the carp, buffalo, and in fact the young 
of all the vegetable-eating fish. It is much 
easier to raise the vegetable-eating fish in great 
quantities than it is the animal-eating fishes. 
There is usually plenty of food in streams and 
ponds for vegetable-eating fishes, but the supply 
of animal food is never so abundant. To meet 
this demand nature has so arranged that most 
vegetable-eating fishes spawn eggs by the mil¬ 
lion, while animal-eating fishes spawn eggs by 
the thousand. For instance, catfish and bass 
spawn from one to twenty thousand eggs in a 
jear, while carp and buffalo spawn from five hun¬ 
dred thousand to five million eggs each in a year. 
The vegetable-eating fish convert much waste 
vegetable matter into fish flesh. This fish flesh 
m the form of young fish serves as food for the 
animal-eating varieties. For instance, the black 
bass will eat from three to five times its own 
weight in other fish each year. 
The object of the fish hatchery is then to 
deal with every problem of fish culture that may 
present itself, and if possible to cause fish to be- 
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