. The natural history of the farm; a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature. Natural history. FISHES OF THE FARM STREAM 47. Fig. 27. The common bull-head, is much to be desired. A race of short-homed bull-heads garden, and have neglected most of the others. The back- ward state of fish culture among us may be expressed by saying that we have developed no means of growing natural forage for fishes or of managing them in ordinary waters in pure cultures under control, and we have hardly any valuable cultiu-al varieties. Many of our wild fishes, however, are exce
. The natural history of the farm; a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature. Natural history. FISHES OF THE FARM STREAM 47. Fig. 27. The common bull-head, is much to be desired. A race of short-homed bull-heads garden, and have neglected most of the others. The back- ward state of fish culture among us may be expressed by saying that we have developed no means of growing natural forage for fishes or of managing them in ordinary waters in pure cultures under control, and we have hardly any valuable cultiu-al varieties. Many of our wild fishes, however, are excellent: the basses, and the perches, and the cat fishes, for example. And for the most part they are very hardy and are widely distrib- uted in our inland waters. If the fish fauna of any con- siderable stream be carefully explored, doubtless a number of good, bad, and indifferent kinds of fishes will be found. Bullheads and sunfishes are nearly everjrwhere in permanent fresh water: and what excellent materials for selection they offer! True the bullheads are nearly all head and horns, but what flesh they have is excellent quality. What we need is to develop a race of shorthorns among them. If such im- provement of them were made by selection and care as has been made with cattle and hogs, what fine table fishes we should have: and everybody might have them in his own water garden. Fishes are the dominant animal forms in all fresh waters: in powers of locomotion they surpass all other aquatic creatures. Their fighting powers are good. Consequently we find them in full possession of the open waters, while most. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Needham, James G. (James George), 1868-1956. Ithaca, N. Y. , The Comstock Publishing Company
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