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were not received till the beginning of spring, ( >n three occasions eggs 

 wore sent from New York to Bremen in April and May, and our faith- 

 ful assistant F. Busse, of Geesteinunde, attended to the unpacking, dis- 

 tribution, and shipping of the eggs in the most careful manner. He 

 lias always most kindly taken care of the numerous consignments of 

 fish-eggs which we have received from America, and deserves great 

 credit for his exertions in the cause of fish-culture. 



Director Haack, of Huningue, regards the rainbow-trout as the most 

 valuable fish that America has sent us. In April, 1884, it appeared 

 that of the fish twenty-one months old, which had reached a weight of 

 one half to three-fourths pound, not one had been lost. The yield was 

 10,000 eggs and 1,500 fish. The two and-one-half-yearold fish in Au- 

 gust, 1884, weighed from three-fourths to one pound. In Count Palffy's 

 establishment at Szomolany, Hungary, 443 raiubow-tront were placed 

 in the water in 1882, and in 1883 the number remaining was 434. 



Mayor Schuster, of Freiburg, writes that the fry obtained from the 

 first eggs sent from America were very fine, and that the supply was 

 sufficient to establish permanently the fish in Germany. At Starnberg 

 the American brook-trout has developed better than the rainbow-tront. 

 Mr. Eckardt, of Liibbinchen, from 526 eggs obtained 500 little fish, which 

 did very well in a small pond. Mr. Zenk, of Seewiese, thinks that the 

 rainbow trout will prove especially adapted to culture in trout ponds. 



American landlocked salmon. — Since 1883 this fish has grown 

 very well near Oliva, Prussia. In the Wiirm Lake, near Starnberg, a 

 fish of this kind measuring 24 centimeters [about 9i inches] was recently 

 caught, and a well- grown specimen was taken in the Tegern Lake. In 

 a pond near Friedrichshuld, in Pomerania, such fish thrive very well. 



American whitefish (Coregonus albus). — The Bayerische Fischerei- 

 Zeitung (Bavarian Fishery Journal) saj s, on p. 231, that for the last three 

 years attempts have been made by the German and Bavarian Fishery 

 Associations to acclimatize whitefish in the Ammer, the Tegern, the 

 Walchen, and other lakes in the south of Bavaria. There is good rea- 

 son to hope for success, as Mr. Hopplinger, superintendent of Bavarian 

 fisheries, a man of considerable experience in matters pertaining to 

 tish-culture, about the beginning of July, 1884, caught such enormous 

 quantities of the American whitefish in the Tegern Lake that he was 

 obliged to submerge the net again in order to set the young fish free. 

 Several well-grown specimens have since then been captured. 



The receipts of fish eggs from Prof. Spencer F. Baird were as follows: 



Salmo fnntinnlis (Bachsaiblinf)) 



Salmo irideus (Begenbogettforelle) 



7 rutta lacuatris (Secforelle) 



t\ regonus albus (Amerikanisclic Mar'dy.e) 



In 1882-'83. 



45, 000 

 9,800 



500, 000 



In lS8.'f->4. 



18,776 

 25, 000 



