Fish Culturists* Association. 19 



" The series of buildings at Hnningue are admirably adapted to 

 the purpose for which they were designed. The group forms a square, 

 the entrance portion of which — two lodges — is devoted to the corps 

 de garde, and the center has been laid out as a kind of shrubbery, 

 and is relieved with two little ponds containing fish. The whole 

 establishment, ponds and buildings, occupies a space of eighty acres. 

 The suites of buildings comprise, at the sides, two great hatching 

 galleries, sixty metres in length and nine metres broad, containing a 

 plentiful supply of tanks and egg-boxes; and in the back of the 

 square are the library, the laboratory and the residence of the officers. 

 The egg-boxes are raised in pj^-amids, the water flowing from one on 

 top into those immediately below. The water supply is derived from 

 the springs on the grounds, the Rhine, and the Augrabea streams. The 

 water of the higher springs is directed toward the building through 

 an underground conduit, while those rising at a lower level are used 

 only in small basins and trenches for the experiments in raising fish 

 outside. As a general rule, fish are not bred at Huningue, the chief 

 business accomplished there being the collection and distribution ot 

 their eggs ; but there is a large supply of tanks and troughs for the 

 purpose of experimenting with such fish as may be kept in the place. 

 The waters of the Rhine, being at a higher level than the springs, 

 can be employed in the basins. Of course, different qualities of 

 water are quite necessary for the success of experiments in acclimati- 

 zation carried on so zealously at this establishment. Some fish delight 

 in a clear running stream, while others prefer to pass their life in 

 sluggish waters. 



" The course of business at Huningue is as follows : The fggs are 

 brought chiefly from Switzerland and Germany, and embrace those of 

 the various kinds of trout, the Danube and Rhine salmon, and the 

 tender ombre Chevalier (a large char). People are appointed to 

 catch gravid fish of these various kinds, and, having done so, to com- 

 municate with the authorities at Huningue, who at once send an 

 expert to deprive the fishes of their spawn and bring it to the breed- 

 ing or store boxes, where it is carefully tended and daily watched till 

 it is ready to be dispatched to some district in want of it." 



Up to the season of 1863-64 the total number of fresh water fish- 

 eggs distributed from Huningue was far above 110,000,000, and 

 nearly half of these were of the finer kinds of fish, there being no 

 less than 41,000,000 of the eggs of salmon and trout. This great 

 establishment passed into the possession of the Germans by the 



