JuLy 6, 1907.] 

FOREST AND STREAM. 

HERRING CHOKE UP RIVERS. 
OnE of the greatest runs of herring in Mary- 
land waters in many years, according to reports 
from various sections, is now on. For a week 
large schools of the fish have been moving to- 
ward the headwaters of the fresh water streams 
in the upper part of the bay until every water- 
way north of the Patapsco is fairly alive with 
the members of the finny tribe. Fishermen are 
catching herring by the thousands and the mar- 
kets are becoming glutted with the fish. - In many 
sections farmers have gone into the herring-catch- 
ing business, and are using the results of their 
heavy captures for fertilizer purposes, hauling 
the fish from the shore to the fields, where they 
are broadcasted and plowed under. 
A report from the vicinity of the Gunpowder 
River and its tributaries states that the run of 
herring in that locality is unprecedented. “Jim” 
Maddox, a fisherman, who is regarded as a para- 
gon of truthfulness, returned to his home at 
Chase Station recently and reported that he was 
caught in the midst of a large school of herring 
in the Gunpowder River recently, and his boat 
was fairly carried along on the backs of the fish, 
despite his efforts at the oars to stem the tide. 
According to Maddox, he was carried nearly a 
mile out of hiS course before he succeeded in 
extricating his boat from the school. 
In one haul of the big 600-fathom seine oper- 
ated by the Grace’s Quarter Gunning Club on the 
Gunpowder recently, so many herring were sur- 
rounded that it was impossible to land the seine, 
and it became ‘necessary to lift its outer edge 
and let more than half of the fish out of the 
net. When the seine was finally landed, it is 
said that the catch amounted to nearly 200 boxes. 
One of the most interesting sights attending the 
run of herring is the rush ‘of the fish up toward 
the headwaters of White Marsh run, one of the 
tributaries of the Gunpowder River. The stream 
is very shallow and is an ideal place for the fish 
to deposit their spawn. At times the run be- 
comes so great that the fish choke up the narrow 
portions of the stream and form a dam. At 
these points the residents for miles around gather 
and, with dip nets, dip out the fish in large num- 
bers. The run lasts for nearly a week, during 
which time it.is estimated that millions of herr- 
ing journey up the waterway, and, after deposit- 
ing their spawn, journey back to deep water 
again. The fish caught by the residents. are 
salted down.—Washington Herald. 
CLEARING WATER. 
.CONCERNING the copper sulphate treatment of 
alge-infected +eservoirs, the Medical Health 
Officer of Newport, England, describing the ex- 
periences of his municipality, reports that it had 
annually been troubled by a fishy smell in the 
water. A test of the copper sulphate treatment 
was made in a reservoir of 81,000,000 gallons 
capacity, and 36 feet maximum depth. To pro- 
duce the desired pe cuerton of one in a million, 
810 pounds of copper sulphate were employed, bags 
of the chemical beino dragged through the water, 
care being taken to cover the whole of the reser- 
voir’s area. Within half an hour of the treat- 
ment a white flocculent coagulum formed and 
gradually sank; and within 24 hours there was 
a marked general improvement in the appearance 
of the water. In a few days the water was 
clearer than it had ever been before. Three 
other reservoirs, one having a maximum depth 
of 70 feet were treated in like manner and with 
similar success. Four days after treatment but 
one part of copper to 734 millions gallons was 
found in the upper water of one reservoir.—New 
York State Health Bulletin. 
REALLY COULDN’T EXPECT HIM. 
THey tell this one about a small boy who lives 
near Bean Lake. He was fishing and his mother 
had to call him five times to make him hear. 
Finally she landed on him, and shaking him in 
a terrible manner, wanted to know why he did 
not answer., This was his reply: “I didn’t 
hear you the first three times, and the last time 
I had a bite.”—Kansas CityStar. 














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