BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE Commissioner of Fisheries For the Fiscal Years of 1911 and 1912 BY GEORGE WILLIAM MILES, Commissioner Assisted by PRESTON H. MILES To the Governor INDIANAPOLIS : WM. B. BURFORD, CONTRACTOR FOR STATE PRINTING AND BINDING 1913 Table of Contents. The Beginning of Some State Fish Hatcheries. By the Commissioner 40 The Wall-Eyed Pike, or Pike Perch. By Theodore G. Langguth....... 46 88 PAGE Drifting Down the Tippecanoe. By Preston H. Miles.. 198 Along the Whitewater. By Preston H. Miles.... 211 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FUR-BEARING ANIMALS.... 227 Our Attempts to Establish European Game Birds in Indiana. By the Commissioner.... 229 Prairie Chickens in Indiana. By the Commissioner. 234 Fur Bearing Animals of an Indiana Farm. By Henry Adolph Link.. 237 The Raccoon.. 239 The Meadow Vole, Common Vole, or Meadow Mouse. 266 It Has Cost Us. By the Commissioner. Nature's Balance in the Animal Kingdom, and What the Breaking of Attracting and Protecting Bird Tenants. By O. A. Renahan.. 272 279 |