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vocates of the propriety and feasibility of stocking the trib- 

 utaries of the Gulf of Mexico with shad. Letter to Mr. 

 Handley. '_ 



SHAD IX RED RIVER, ARKANSAS. 



A corresj^ondent of the Weekly , writing from Hot Springs, 

 Arkansas, on the 6th of May last, communicates the very in- 

 teresting intelligence that for two seasons past shad have 

 been captured in the Washita River in such abundance as to 

 furnish an important article of food to the people of the 

 neighborhood. No statement is given as to whether these 

 fish are from shad purposely introduced into the river, or 

 whether they made their way there spontaneously from the 

 Gulf. The Washita, as our readers may be aware, is a trib- 

 utary of Red River, and is navigable within forty miles of 

 Hot Springs, a locality about fifty-five miles southwest from 

 Little Rock. 



SHAD-HATCHING IN THE HUDSON RIVER. 



According to the Albany Argus, the shad-hatching opera- 

 tions of Mr. Seth Green on the Hudson River during the pres- 

 ent season have been extremely successful, an immense num- 

 ber of eggs having been hatched out and placed in the river, 

 besides those that have been supplied directly by himself or 

 through others to Lake Champlain, the Genesee River, and 

 other localities. 



The principal scene of his operations was at what is called 

 Camp Green, about ten miles below Albany, on the western 

 shore of the Hudson. This consisted of three tents, one a 

 dormitory, one a sitting-room, and the third a kitchen. Five 

 men have been employed by Mr. Green in the various opera- 

 tions connected with this business first, in the capture of 

 the shad, which is done by means of a seine about four hun- 

 dred feet long, about a mile below the camp, on the same 

 side of the river. They are usually taken between eight and 

 ten o'clock at night, and, if properly matured, the eggs are 

 stripped from the female into a pan of water, and the milt 

 subsequently expressed into the same, and the whole stirred 

 together. When this operation is concluded, the eggs are 

 carried to the hatching ground and placed in the hatching 

 boxes, where they are left seven or eight days, according to 

 temperature. 



