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Fish 
According to .oers, the refuse heaps at Aztaln contained bones of the 
following fish: pickerel, yellow perch, red horse, pike, sunfish (several

varieties), bullhead, muidsucker. 
Also at Aztal.an *  Barrett found an awl mae from thes pine of a seepshead

(Aplodtiatu).?Green found all of these fish except the sheepshead in a 
recet survey of' the Rock River drainage. 
Further evdec that the Idians did considerable fishing is a dam wthc 
they built near Milford. This was a V-shaped pile of stones placed in mid-strea

which forced the fish to pass next to the bank, thereby makinag them easier
to 
catch. Considerable labor was involved in building this dam, so it is safe
to 
concludeo that the fishing was goodeog    to warrant the trouble tken. 
The first settlers counated heavily on fish for food. The red horse 
(Moxo'stoma) was the maost important food fish. *,-Kys    nhshsoyo 
lake Mills, describes a fish rack which caugt the red hers. and "pickerel"

which were carried over the dam and left them stranded, high and dry. The
late 
Mr. Frank Scribner has told me of the fever-pitch excitement that accompanied

the red horse "ranu." The ra coincided with corn planting time,
and the 
flowering of the wild plum. Farmers from miles around gathered at the dam
in 
the Crawfish at Hubb3lston with wagons and dip nets. Some used "drive"
nets 
(seines).                                  AA night and man were thedune

brawls which acopned the fishing. Wagons were backed into the stream, the

more easily 'to fill them. Any kind of fish was taken. The fishermen cape

at the old saml duin the run. Eahyear they came with barrels and salt. 
Tefish were slit down the back, clne, an      akdin the brine. 
M.Albert Aldrich rmbesthe famr driving by with theirwaobxe 
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