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borhood, who were afraid that their trade might thereby be injured. It 

 was not till 1864 that he was enabled to impregnate 1,500 eggs of the 

 lake-trout, which flourishes in Lake Constauce and its tributaries; he 

 was so successful in this that scarcely 10 per cent, were lost. He has 

 now on his property several large basins after the best foreign models ; 

 bought of the village of Baukweil the privilege to fish in the Ehe or 

 Malanka stream, which flows near his property, for $300 ; improved his 

 establishment constantly on his own ideas; and, as early as 18G7, he was 

 able to raise 30,000 young fish. As there was a great want of water, 

 the ministry of finance placed the remaining streams in that neighbor- 

 hood which belonged to the government at his disposal ; and the min- 

 istry of agriculture has repeatedly granted him subsidies for meeting 

 the considerable expenses of his first establishment. 



His example was imitated by other landed proprietors in Vorarlberg. 

 With the subsidy granted in 1869, the agricultural society procured 

 the model of a new hatching-box, and distributed six of them among the 

 several pisciculturists of the province. We have reports of successful 

 experiments made by some of these, which, on the one hand, have been 

 favored by the excellent quality of the Vorarlberg water, but which, on 

 the other hand, as the reporter of the agricultural society says, have 

 been much impeded by the defective fishery-laws. 



Bohemia in former times excelled all other provinces of Austria in 

 her famous lake-culture ; and, although a large number of lakes have 

 been drained, this province has still maintained her old fame. Thus, 

 370,500 to 492,000 pounds of carp are every year sent to Vienna from 

 the estate of Wittingau in the south of Bohemia. (Die TeicMcirthschaft 

 mit besonderer Riicksiclit auf das sudliche Bohmen. Wenzel Horak, 

 1869.) The great Rosenberg Lake in 1870 produced 192,660 pounds of 

 different fish, which shows what large revenues can, with proper care, 

 be derived from water. 



The high prices have of late years made lake-culture more remunera- 

 tive, and more attention is consequently given to it. This industry is 

 particularly successful if there are separate lakes for spawning, for the 

 raising of fish, and for those which are to be sold, and if they are several 

 times transferred from one lake to the another. As in raising cattle and 

 sheep, great care is likewise taken in fish-culture to select for breeding 

 purposes the most perfect specimens; wherever artificial spawning can- 

 not be applied, great care is taken to protect the young ones against all 

 possible dangers ; the different species are kept separate, and the lake- 

 fish are well fed on various agricultural refuse, on refuse fish, and even 

 frog-spawn, which is found in all marshes. 



The occasional draining of the lakes, and the planting of their beds 

 with corn or grass at the end of summer, usually every third or fourth 

 year, has not only a very beneficial influence on pisciculture, but as also 

 advantageous from an agricultural point of view by adding the rich 

 harvest of one year. 



