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weeks, it is natural to infer that all the eggs do not mature 

 at one time. That this is the case has been proven by the 

 officers of French fisheries. About the time when France 

 endowed the Institution of Huningue, and when the waters, 

 which had for many years remained still and dead, all at once 

 became enlivened by the leaps of trout and the splashings 

 of salmon, the " habitans" regarded the sight as supernat- 

 ural, and an evidence that Heaven was pleased with Napo- 

 leon's reign. About this time, when France had first voted 

 30,000 francs for the advancement of fish-culture, and then in- 

 creased the sum to 80,000, the study of all residents along 

 salmon-rivers and trout-streams was how to procure the eggs 

 of trout and fecundate them. They read all about Joseph 

 Remy's plan, and the result was that all the streams were rob- 

 bed of game fishes for procuring eggs to sell to the establish- 

 ment at Huningue. Of course the poor fishes were squeezed to 

 death in forcing them to exude immature ova, and the streams 

 becoming thereby depeopled, induced the unbelievers in fish- 

 culture to set their faces against the wanton destruction. 

 The French government then advertised that it would pur- 

 chase no more fecundated ova unless the roe and milt were 

 exuded by employes of government. Government agents 

 thereafter were notified by those who had trout ready to 

 spawn, and the agents visited the place, and took the ova 

 only which Avas exuded without pressure, leaving the rest to 

 restock their streams. Since then, water-farming has been 

 an uninterrupted success. 



FURMAN'S NATURAL HATCHING-RACE. 



At Maspeth, in Kings County, which is within or joins the 

 metropolitan district of which 'New York City is the centre, 

 Mr. William Furman has been propagating brook trout arti- 

 ficially for the past ten years ; and as he is a gentleman of 

 genius, energy, and means, and, withal, an excellent fly-fisher, 

 his devotion to the art offish-culture has been rather for love 

 than profit. In his hatching-race there are millions of fecun- 



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