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their tributaries, with the salmon and other valuable fish, on condition that the several States 

 of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania will defray the trifling expense of transporting 

 the eggs and parent fish to the proper localities, and enact laws providing for the protection 

 and preservation of the young fry. The estimated amount of expenditure required on the 

 part of the States is only about two thousand dollars, and the end which can certainly be 

 thereby accomplished is the creation or regeneration of a great and important branch of 

 national industry. 



Joseph Remy, the poor fisherman of the Vosges, France, who discovered the art of artifi- 

 cially propagating fish, recently died at Bresse from a disease brought on by exposure to 

 inclement weather in his researches. A pension of 1200 francs had been awarded him for 

 his labors in this interesting branch of ichthyology. His son, Laurent Remy, is a zealous 

 disciple of his father ; and has exhibited so much skill in the art of pisciculture, as to have 

 been intrusted by government with the duty of keeping the waters in the department of the 

 Loire stocked with fish. This business has become a recognised feature in the list of aliment- 

 ary productions in France. 



In connection with the French Industrial Exhibition, there was held, during the past sum- 

 mer, a show of live-stock, at which specimens of the breeds of several different countries 

 were presented. The English farmers were there with their Shorthorns, Herefords, Devons, 

 and the most popular breeds of sheep and swine. The cattle brought from Switzerland, and 

 known as the Fribourg breed, appear to have been the objects of special interest. They are 

 characterized by a surprising bulkiness of frame, being larger than any native breed of Great 

 Britain. The color is brown or black, with large patches of white, and the face and back 

 generally white. The prices asked for these cattle were fully equal to those demanded for 

 choice English stock. As much as £68 was refused for an indifferent bull of the Fribourg 

 breed, and he was again taken back to Geneva. Two cows from the same district were pur- 

 chased by a small proprietor within six miles of Paris, for £81 each, and these were con- 

 sidered a bargain. Higher prices were refused for cows of the Schwitz breed, and many of 

 these were taken back to Switzerland, a distance of six hundred miles ; and this these cows 

 had accomplished on foot, shod, of course, but active, and not apparently injured by the 

 journey. They are structurally well adapted for travelling. 



The exhibition of stock at the recent fair of the Royal Agricultural Society at Carlisle, 

 England, is said to have been fully equal in numbers and quality to any of the previous fairs 

 of the Society. The special correspondent of the Mark Lane Express says : 



A more splendid show of Shorthorns we believe we never saw — so uniformly good, (with 

 one or two exceptions only,) and denoting not only all that beauty of color, form, and feature 

 which all so much admire and love to see, but those better and more substantial qualities — a 

 large, rotund, proportionate frame, evidencing a tendency or capacity to produce plenty of 

 good lean flesh, and of the primest quality, as well as to lay on, as they do, such enormous 

 quantities of fat. This is as it should be : who can dine from off fat meat ? We are glad to 

 notice such a feature at this meeting. We think more attention is given to the breeding of 

 animals of heavier frame, and denoting a tendency or propensity to produce good lean flesh, 

 than heretofore. For the public good, we beg most earnestly still closer attention to this 

 principle in breeding in every class. 



The show of Devons was small, only 23 animals — whereas the average of the past nine 

 years was 51, and that of Shorthorns, 98. 



In virtue of a recommendation from the War Department, Congress, at its last session, 

 passed an appropriation for the purpose of importing camels from the East, to be used as 

 beasts of burden on the vast sandy plains of the South-west which intersect the overland 

 route to California. A national vessel, in charge of officers especially detailed for this pur- 

 pose, has been sent to the Mediterranean, for the purpose of procuring the required number 

 of these animals. 



The production of vegetable oils is a subject which imperatively demands the attention of 

 our agriculturists. The price and the consumption of animal oils is increasing most rapidly, 

 and the vegetable kingdom presents the only source from which we can expect to derive a 

 cheap and adequate supply. An appeal has been made to the farmers of the United States 



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