HISTOEY OF FISH CULTUEE. 21 



streams. This was the task to which he "bent all 

 his energies. The difficulties he encountered are 

 too well known to be repeated ; but at length his 

 hour of triumph came : the shad hatching-box, 

 beautiful in its simplicity, was invented. The 

 Connecticut River was replenished with shad, 

 thousands were captured at one sweep of the 

 seine where hundreds had been taken but the 

 previous year, and fish culture had become a 

 matter of national importance. 



Such is a slight sketch, which we hope may 

 not prove uninteresting, of the rise and progress 

 of our art ; step by step has it advanced from 

 2,100 B.C. to 1872, but who can prophesy its fu- 

 ture ? In 1864 there was but one fish farm in the 

 United States ; in less than eight years they are 

 counted by hundreds. Success is within the reach 

 of all may all achieve it ! 



