88 Fish Cultural Assoctation. 
1,495,000 fish were distributed in waters of the southern At- 
lantic coast, tributaries to the Mississippi, and to the Sacra- 
mento, of California. Altogether, at this station, under the 
joint work of the State and United States, about 8,444,000 
fish were hatched, the larger portion being consigned to ad- 
jacent waters. 
The hatching was done with a novel and exceedingly 
efficient apparatus, which marks one of the greatest ad- 
vances in fish culture yet made. It must certainly appear to 
you as a novel proceeding to hatch fish by steam, but this is 
precisely what we did. We didn’t steam the eggs in a cul- 
lender, but a ten-horse-power steam-engine was set in motion 
at a slow revolution. A long shafting with eccentrics 
moved the long arms of the levers up and down, and sus- 
pended from the ends of the short arms were sheet-iron 
cylinders, with wire-netting bottoms, half-submerged in the 
river. The slow up-and-down movement, when a quantity 
of-eggs were put ‘into the ‘cylinders, kept them ‘in’ g@entie 
motion within the arms until they were hatched. As the 
engine and machinery were fixed upon a large scow an- 
chored out in the stream, it was possible to have levers pro- 
jecting on each side the inner ends, being coupled in a sli- 
ding knuckle-joint, so that one eccentric moved both. 
The fish hatched with perfect success, and proved vigor- 
ous and hardy in the longest trips made, as the one to Cali- 
fornia. 
There are great advantages in this apparatus over any 
previously used for the purpose. The more especially de- 
sirable features being the possibility of complete success 
when there is no current whatever; the advantage that the 
cylinders can be closed with wire-netting covers, and when 
the temperature rises to a dangerous point they may be 
