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world in consequence of their deep-red color, great richness, 

 and fine flavor. San Francisco Bulletin, August 15, 1872. 



CAPTURE OF SACRAMENTO SALMON WITH THE HOOK. 



Under the act of Congress authorizing the introduction 

 of useful food fishes into the rivers and lakes of the United 

 States, extensive arrangements have been made, as already 

 announced, in reference to salmon, among other species; and 

 while the large stock of eggs expected of the true Salmo sa- 

 lar is to be distributed in the waters of the Eastern States 

 and of the great lakes, those of the Sacramento River species 

 are to be placed in the Susquehanna River, and in streams 

 to the south and west of it. 



A serious objection has been raised to the introduction of 

 the Sacramento fish, on the score of its furnishing no sport 

 to the angler, on account of its supposed indifference to 

 any tempting bait. We learn, however, from Mr. Livingston 

 Stone, the gentleman in charge of the United States salmon- 

 breeding establishment on the Sacramento, that this is en- 

 tirely a mistake. We have received his own assurances, and 

 through him those of others, that these fish are readily caught 

 with a hook baited with salmon roe. Mr. Stone has himself 

 seen fish weighing from fifteen to twenty-two pounds taken 

 in this way, and he informs us that Mr. Isaac Frye, the pro- 

 prietor of the hotel at Soda Springs, near Mount Shasta, has 

 frequently taken in the Sacramento River as many as ten 

 salmon in a day, averaging fifteen pounds each ; and in one 

 instance this summer he captured one of twenty-four pounds- 

 weight. 



BREEDING OF LEECHES. 



According to Dr. Hessel, of Baden, the medicinal leeches 

 shipped to the United States from Bremen, Hamburg, and 

 Havre under the name of Swedish leeches have nothing what- 

 ever to do with that country, none occurring within its bor- 

 ders. They are obtained in Hungary, Wallachia, Turkey, and 

 Southern Russia. Dr. Hessel, himself a highly esteemed and 

 very successful fish-culturist, has been lately occupied in rais- 

 ing leeches for the market ; and by making his selections with 

 great care he has in stock a very superior quality that is 

 highly prized. He succeeded in raising 400,000 in a period 



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