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J. PISCICULTURE AND THE FISHERIES (clxix) 419 



(a.) THE FISHERIES. 



General : Fisheries and Sea Temperatures, 419. Legislation, Protection, 

 and Destruction : Act in Regard to Killing Seals in Alaska, 421 ; Destruc- 

 tion of Fish on the Oregon Coast by Nitro-glycerine, 428. 



General Statistics : Marine Fisheries of Maine in 1873, 420 ; Consump- 

 tion of Marine Products in Washington, 421 ; the French Fisheries, 422. 

 Special Fisheries : Oil from Sharks' Livers, 419 ; Alaska Cod-fisheries in 

 1873,424 ; the Seal and Herring Fisheries of the Coast of Newfoundland, 424. 



(b.) FISH-CULTURE. 



In General : Introduction of British Fish into India, 426 ; Restocking Ot- 

 sego Lake with Fish, 426. Establishments : Fish-culture in the Castalia 

 Springs, 425. Species : Caution in Planting Young Salmon, 427 ; Trans- 

 porting Living Trout, 427 ; Stocking a Pond in Utah with Eels, 428 ; Sterlet 

 from St. Petersburg at the Brighton Aquarium, 428. 



K. DOMESTIC AND HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY (clxxxvi) 429 



(a.) LIGHTING, HEATING, AND VENTILATION. 



Lighting: Modification of Klinkerfues' Galvanic Gas -lighter, 429; Im- 

 proved Electric Illumination, 429 ; Gas-burner with Platinum Attachment, 

 430 ; Automatic Gas-lighter and Extinguisher, 455 ; Brilliancy of Gas from 

 Distillation of the Pine, 431 ; Safe and Cheap Red-fire, 431. Heating : 

 Extinction of Petroleum Flames, 431 ; Maintenance of a Uniform Tem- 

 perature, 432 ; Infusorial Earth as a Non - conductor of Heat, 451 ; Im- 

 proved Gas-furnace, 455 ; Wetting Coal a Mistake, 456. 



(b.) CLOTHING AND ADORNMENT. 



The Laundry: Washing Cotton Goods without Injuring the Color, 433; 

 Removal of Rust from Fabrics, 433; Preventing Benzina Stains on Cloth- 

 ing , 433 ; Dry Cleaning with Turpentine and its Purification, 433 ; Dry or 

 Chemical Cleaning with Benzine, 434 ; Removing Grease-spots with Ben- 

 zine, 435 ; Cleansing Sponges, 450 ; Cleaning Moss - covered Statuary in 

 Gardens, etc., 454; Cleaning Gilt Articles, 454. 



(C.) THE TABLE. 



New Italian Method for Preserving Grapes, 436 ; Keeping Grapes Fresh, 

 413 ; Mutton Wine of the Chinese, 437 ; Wine made with Yeast, 437 ; 

 Brandy from Sawdust, 438 ; Pasteur Process for making Unalterable Beer, 

 438; Improved Mode of Condensing Milk, 444; Testing Milk, 457 ; Prepa- 

 ration of Caviare in Russia, 445; Spinal Column of the Sturgeon as an 

 Article of Food, 447 ; Use of Horse-flesh in France, 447 ; Meat Biscuit, 448 ; 

 Freshness of Eggs, 448 ; Fig Coffee, 453 ; New Method for Preserving Meat, 

 436 ; Japanese Mode of Preserving Meat in Summer, 455 ; Detection of 

 Chicory in a Decoction of Coffee, 437 ; Detection of Picric Acid in Beer, 

 440 ; Detection of Foreign Bitter Principles in Beer, 440 ; Mode of Testing 

 Butter for Adulteration, 443 ; Effect of Salting Butter, 440. 

 (d.) THE STABLE. 



Preventing Flies from Annoying Horses, 449; Glycerine for Preserving 

 Leather from Ammoniacal Vapors, 451 ; New Method of Slaughtering Ani- 

 mals, 450 ; Wheel with India-rubber Tire, 458. 



