Society Statistics 



According to a list published in the 1912 

 "Kalendcr fuer Aciuarien — iind Terrarien 

 Kuude, of the Kos7uos Society of Nature 

 Friends, of Stuttgart, Germany, the follow- 

 ing number of aquarium societies are 

 known in Europe: 



Austria 22 Hungary 1 



Belgium 1 Luxemburg ... 1 



Denmark 1 Russia 3 



Germany 127 Sweden 1 



Holland 5 Switzerland ... 7 



This list is evidently incomplete, as no 

 societies are mentioned from the British 

 Empire, France, etc., although these na- 

 tions are known to be great friends of 

 nature and out-of-door life. 



minute particles, otherwise some fish too 

 eager for it will try to swallow big pieces 

 and choke to death. 



Aquarium Fish Food 



C. J. Heede 



Brooklyn 



Many of the prepared fish foods now on 

 the market I have found to be as good, 

 if not better, than any imported foods, 

 but in feeding, it must be taken into con- 

 sideration that they are very rich and con- 

 centrated, and that they must lie used 

 sparingly. If manj' large snails are kejit 

 with the fishes it will be necessary to allow 

 soiTie food for the snails. 



The natural foods, Dai^hnia, Cyclops, 

 Cypris, Polyphenms and worms are of 

 course the best, but aside from these, fish 

 eggs, raw or boiled, finely scraped fish 

 flesh, of either the fresh or salt water va- 

 rieties, oysters, clams, shrimp, or lobster 

 meat, smoked fish, such as herring, white- 

 fish or salmon, can be used with more or 

 less success. After these come animal 

 foods such as beef, veal, and lamb, or game 

 of any sort, used either raw or boiled, but 

 in all cases scraped, or dried and pul- 

 verized. A good food for all small fish or fry 

 that have past the yolk-sac stage is the 

 yolk of a very hard-boiled egg, fed in a 

 fluid or powdered state. 



When fishes are fed with meat care must 

 be taken to have it cut or scraped into 



Along the Morris Cafeal 



EldENE S.MITH 

 Hoboken, N.J. 



The Morris Canal runs across the State 

 of New Jersey from tidewater at Jersey 

 City to the Delaware River at Phillij)s- 

 burg — Easton. It was one of the first 

 canals constructed in the United States 

 and has become an ele])hant on the hands 

 of the State, since its abandonment by the 

 canal company. Several railroad com- 

 panies have been pulling wires to get con- 

 trol of it and there was talk of turning it 

 into a speeding course. Tliere is also a 

 proposition to make of it a public park- 

 way and course for water sports. 



It is the last proposition which appeals 

 to many of us of the metropolitan district 

 who have fished and picnicked along it. 

 ]\Iany a holiday have we passed along its 

 quiet banks from Newark, past Patcrson 

 and Little P'alls and up into Morris 

 County. At all seasons of the year from 

 early spring till tlie ice shut us out, as 

 long as there was water in the canal, we 

 have visited it and gathered of its treas- 

 ures. It is remarkable how different the 

 results of collecting are at various places 

 and on different days, even in so placid a 

 stream as this canal. For some miles 

 northward of Newark mostly common sun- 

 fish (Eupoinotis (/ibho,sii,<i) the most ))lenti- 

 ful of all tile sunfishes, and, I may say, 

 of all our local Eastern fishes, as well; 

 shiners {Ahrcnnis rri/.sol('ucas) connnon. 

 but beautiful; the freshwater killifisli 

 {Fundiihis diaphaniis), ever active, and 

 the hornjiout or catfish {Ameiuru.s nchu- 

 losus), with each mile further on the num- 

 ber of fishes increases as they may enter the 

 eaiial. perhaps from some small streamlet, 

 or the overflow of a ))ond situate at about 

 the same level. 



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