MARENZELLER PISCICULTURAL ESTABLISHMENT, ST. POLTEN. 659 



The period up to which Mr. Fruwirth intends to employ this method 

 of feeding- is the end of the first year. During the winter months it is 

 not necessary to add any extra food, as the fish do not require so much 

 food during' this season. After the first year the feeding- with horse 

 flesh commences. 



The piscicultural establishment at Freiland is able not only to supply 

 a very large number of impregnated eggs — this year- (1877) it shipped 

 about 40,000 eggs, principally to Germany — but it possesses all the neces- 

 sary arrangements to raise an indefinite number of fish. In order to 

 ascertain whether it would be possible to transport fish to Vienna, Mr. 

 Fruwirth undertook, in January, 1870, to transport 000 trout (not raised 

 in the establishment), all of them milters, to Vienna. The fish left Frei- 

 land at 11.30 p. m., and reached the Vienna fish market the following- 

 day at noon in perfectly sound condition. Mr. Fruwirth keeps an exact 

 account of everything which takes place in his establishment, e. g., the 

 number of eggs placed in the vessels, the number of fish hatched, the 

 losses, the number of fish placed in the different ponds, and the expense 

 of feeding the fish and running the establishment. He is always anxious, 

 either by personal observation or by the advice of others, to follow up 

 cause and effect, so that if he continues his work with the same energy 

 with which he has commenced it he will soon be able to supply all the 

 necessary statistics of the hatching and raising of trout and saibling. 

 We have no doubt that he will soon find many imitators who will benefit 

 by his experience, and we see in this prospect the sweetest reward for 

 the many sacrifices which the proprietor of the Freiland establishment 

 has made to the cause of pisciculture. 



