Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1919 — Thousands of Pike For Indiana Rivers [ARTICLE]

Thousands of Pike For Indiana Rivers

A remarkable collection of small fry consisting of 125,000 wall-eyed pike were placed in the Tippecanoe river on Monday, being brought by motor truck from the state fish hatchery at Columbia City An assignment of 250,000 were also placed in Bass Lake on the same day. The fry were only three days old and were about the size of higglers in a rain barrel. The driver said that a variance of ten degrees in temperance would kill them, and every care was taken to keep them in good condition, ■ It was necessary to distribute them in several places in the river, as they are cannibals when in large schools, and on the fifth day would have started devouring each other. • By autumn they will reach a length of seven inches, the truck driver asserted. When mature they are long like a pickerel. They were brought in cans resembling milk-cans- . Some were pladed in Eel river at Logansport, some in the Iroquois river in this city and others m the Wabash at Delphi, on Monday. The application for a batch for the Tippecanoe river was sent into the state by O. H. Keller,- of Winamac, and Monday’s shipment was the first sent out from the state hatchery.