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would, but it would also kill every other living thing in the 
water, and that their pond would be barren of all such valuable 
- fish-food as insect, larvae and crustaceans, and that the remedy 
was as bad as the disease All that then suggested itself was 
persistent netting, and this entails much labor and seldom 
catches the last fish. This spring, while watching the nests, it 
occured to me that the young crop could be effectually killed off 
by rowing around the ponds and dropping a piece of quicklime 
as large as a robin’s egg upon each nest, perhaps through a tube, 
which would deliver it exactly. This plan would not interfere 
with the waters in the deeper parts, nor with the fishes, and if 
pursued until the original stock died out would appear to be 
effectual. I have recommended this plan to Mr. Jones, and, if 
time permits, will assist him in carrying it out. 
LOBSTERS. 
Mr. PuiLiips.—I have here a paper on lobster culture, by 
Mr. S. M. Johnson, of the firm of Johnson & Young, the large 
lobster dealers of Warren Bridge, Boston, but think it best to 
preface it by some extracts from a report on the Collection of 
Economic Crustaceans, Worms, Echinoderms, and Sponges, sent 
to the Great International Fisheries’ Exhibition at London, by 
Mr. Richard Rathbun, Curator of the Department of Marine In- 
vertebrates in the United States National Museum. The report 
says: 
‘The lobster is by far the most important crustacean occurring 
upon the coasts of the United States, and gives rise to an ex- 
tremely valuable fishery. It is confined to the Atlantic side 
of the continent, and ranges from Delaware in the south, to 
Labrador in the north. The most southern fishery is a small 
one in the neighborhood of Atlantic City and Long Branch, 
New Jersey. Lobsters were once moderately abundant in New 
York Bay, and were taken there for market, but the pollution of 
the waters of the bay by numerous factories and other causes 
