446 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. X. 



salmon, 38 lbs. weight, 3 feet 10 inches in length ; salmon 45 

 lbs. weight, 4 feet in length ; land locked salmon (wanoanish) 

 60 lbs. weight, 2 feet in length; great lake trout; lunge 3 feet 

 in length; sea trout, 22 inches in length; speckled trout, 22 

 inches in length ; sturgeon (sliort nose), 5 feet 6 inches in 

 length; sturgeon (sharp nose), 3 feet 6 inches in length; do., 4 

 feet 9 inches in length ; muskelonge. 40 lbs. weight, 4 feet 2 

 inches in length, and 35 lbs. weight, 4 feet in length; pike, 15 

 lbs. weight, 3 feet 4 inches in length, and 12 lbs. weight, 3 feet 

 in length ; gar pike, pickerel, channel catfish, 15 lbs., 8 lbs., and 

 4 lbs. in weight; mudpout, bullhead, pike, perch (yellow) 8 lbs. 

 2 feet 3 inches in length ; turbot, 5 lbs. weight, 2 feet in length ; 

 mooneye, 1 foot in length ; pale sucker, mullet sucker, common 

 sucker, mullet. 



Also a Restigouche bark canoe used in salmon fishing ; a 

 Murray Bay canoe u.sed in porpoise hunting, and a model of a 

 gulf fishing schooner. 



Experiments with Chemical Manure. 



In a recent number of the CJicniictl News, Mr. A. B. Griffiths 

 gives the result of some experiments mide to ascertiin if pos- 

 sible the re ison why plant life, when treated with a chemical 

 manure, composed principally of animal charcoal, phosphates 

 and ferrous sulphate, should grow s \ luxuriantly. The details 

 of the experiments are as follows : — 



Three very young sivoy cabbages, all nearly of the same 

 weight, and in a healthy condition, were chosen. No I. cabbage 

 was planted on a piece of land, and no manure was added to the 

 soil on which it grew. No. II. cabbage was planted on the 

 same piece of land and near to No. I., but was treated with a 

 weighed quantity of this chemical manure. No. III. cabbage 

 was planted on a different piece of land to that on which No. I. 

 and II. stood, and was treated like No. II. with the same quan- 

 tity of manure, but grew more in the shade. 



Plants Nos. I. and II. therefore received the >ame amount of 

 sunlight and rainfalL but No. III. plant grew under different 

 conditions. All the plants were placed in tlie ground on the 

 same day, and grew from February to December. Then they 

 were carefull} taken up with their roots attached, all adlier- 

 ing soil was removed by washing, and they were then weighed. 



