3 (J 6 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Imports and exports of Germany. — The imports and exports 

 of cod and lierring are given by Commercial Agent Smith, of Miiyence, 

 in kilograms, as follows [House Mis. Doc. 12, Forty-eighth Congress, 

 first session, part 2, p. 727] : 



Period. 



In September. 1882 

 In October, 1882 ... 

 In September, 1883 

 In October, 1883 ... 



Dried cod. 



I.nports. 



54, 200 



82, 600 



9:!, 700 



148, 300 



Exports. 



Salted herring in casks. 



Imports. 



Exports. 



600 : 11,986,200 9,600 



500 I 12, -JCO. 500 I 13,600 



900 10, G72, 800 ' 10, 800 



1,900 14,170,000 I 22,500 



The alleged capture of a salmon in the Hudson. — Writing 

 from Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., August 9, 1884, Mr. Fred. Mather 

 says: "Early in June I went with Mathew Kennedy, of Hudson, one of 

 the State game protectors, to capture the illegal pound-nets near Rhine- 

 beck, which were a great nuisance to the shad fishermen. Mr. Kennedy 

 is a shad fisherman, in season and by lawful means, himself, and he 

 told me that some time in May last he captured a salmon in his shad 

 seine on 'Hudson Middle Ground.' The fish would weigh about three 

 pounds. Mr. Kennedy inspected it and allowed it to go again. He has 

 fished for over twenty years, and has seen salmon in the markets, and 

 seems confident that his fish was a salmon." 



Effects observed hy N. Simmons upon temperature produced by lorapping a cotton comforter 



about a round-shouldered fish-can. 



Honr temperature observed. 



June 12, 1 p. m 

 June 12, H p. m 

 June 12, 5 p. m 

 June 12, 7 p m 

 June li, 9 p. m 

 June 12, 11 p. m 

 June 13, 1 a.m. 



Temperature of > Temperature of 

 water in covered water in uncovered 

 can. can 



Variation. 



Price of carp.— Under date of August 15, 1884, Mr. K L. Kabler, 

 of Bedford Springs, Campbell County, Virginia, advertises in the Lynch- 

 burg News that he has 150,000 scale and mirror carp for sale, as follows : 



Those 2 to 3 inches long S3 per hundred. 



Those 3 to 5 inches long 5 per hundred. 



Those 10 to 12 inches long 12 per dozen. 



Those 12 to 18 inches long 20 per dozen. 



In making this and similar announcements the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission passes no judgment upon the purity of the carp, as it is not 

 informed ui^on the facts in the case. 



