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Hatching tomcod. — Mr. Mather writes, January 11, 1885: u Our 

 toineod are hatching splendidly; the water is clear and free from sedi- 

 ment; density, 1.021 to 1.022. We have stopped the springs from leaking 

 into the pipes and bringing in sediment and 'bog-ore,' whieh left a fer- 

 ruginous deposit on everything last year." 



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Terrapin culture in North Carolina. — The commissioner of 

 agriculture of North Carolina, Mr. Montford McGehee, writes from Ra- 

 leigh, August 20, 1885, that several citizens along the coast purpose 

 breeding terrapins for the market. 



Note on trout culture. — March 20, 1885, Mr. M. T. Peebles was 

 furnished with 50 California trout from the Wytheville hatchery. Un- 

 der date of June 10 be states that the fish have made wonderful growth 

 during the two months past, having more than doubled in size. He has 

 an ample volume of cleat cold spring water which will sustain 500 trout 

 with very little feeding. 



Breeding goldfish. — Mr. Henry W. Elliott, writing from "Rock- 

 port Cottage," Cleveland, Ohio, September 14, 1885, says that his 25 

 goldfish, which he put into his pond last April and which were then only 

 3 inches long, have grown to 8 inches in length, and produced thou- 

 sands of young, so that the pond is fairly alive with them. Some of 

 the young fish are nearly G inches long already. 



Breeding Japanese goldfish. — From two pairs of Japanese gold- 

 fish received from the United States Fish Commission last winter, Mr. 

 J. D. Yerkes has from 500 to 1,000 little fan-tails hatched this summer. 

 [Letter of Frank N. Clark, September 21, 1885.] 



The arrival of catfish in Belgium. — Under date of Ghent, Jan- 

 uary 2,1885, Hon. Alfred Lefebvre, United States vice-consul, wrote that 

 of the 100 catfish forwarded November 15, 1884 (see page 84), 93 were still 

 doing well, only 2 having been lost since they were placed in the aqua- 

 rium. He says: "Hopes are entertained for the complete success of 

 the scheme thus inaugurated by Mr. Wilson." 



An opinion of the sole.— Referring to the recent effort- of the U. 

 S. Fish Commission to introduce the sole from Europe, Mr. William 

 Stowe, the president of the Gloucester Net and Twine Company, of Bos- 

 ton, says: "I regard it as being worth to us as a nation all the money 

 the Government has spent on it. In England I had sole for every 

 breakfast. It is the best tasted fish that swims." 



Capture of a young blackfish.— December 30, 1884, Mr. J. G. 

 Fisher, keeper of the life-saving station at Provincetown, Mass., cap- 

 tured and forwarded a young blackfish. 



