104 FISH-CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
MARVELS OF TRANSPORTATION. 
We may not indulge in the dainties of the Roman epicure 
who displayed his many hued beauties alive to his guests, be- 
fore cooking and serving; but for abundant food and plucky 
game, for marvellous breeding and wonderful distribution, no 
devices compare with those of our own time and country. By 
new modes of transit, frozen mullet are brought from New 
Zealand to be soldin old England, and live carp are sent in tanks 
over car-wheels from Washington to Dakota and Texas. Under 
the name of Kennebec salmon, large quantities of salmon from 
rivers of the Pacific slope are being sold at this moment in New 
York, and even by dealers’ in Washington markets. The little 
blue-back (Oxcorhynchus nerka) and the quinnat (Oxcorhynchus cho- 
vicha) are now sold in this city at the price of 50 cents per pound. 
These are brought in refrigerator cars from the Columbia river, 
Oregon, and are 1n such a good state of preservation as to pass 
readily for Maine salmon. 
By telegraph to-day, we learn that a car-load of z0,000 salmon 
from the Dalles, Oregon, is ex route for New York, and is to ar- 
rive in eight days. This is what may be called the fruit of an 
enterprise by means of water frozen and water vaporized,—ice 
and steam,—for the preservation and transportation of this rarest 
of fish, fresh from the grand river of our Pacific coast. 
OTHER ELEMENTS OF ADVANCEMENT. 
The demand for fish-food has been greatly increased by the 
enhancement in the minds of people of fish as a healthful diet, 
by the extension of railroads in our country, and by the utiliza- 
tion of ice in transportation and of cans for preservation. I 
need not refer to the manufactories for oil and guano, now 
grown into a great business on the Long Island and New Eng- 
land coasts. Even the skin of the fish taken is made into glue 
and isinglass, and has resulted in a large and valuable trade. 
RANGE OF THE INTERESTS. 
From Cape Hatteras to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, where 
mackerel and menhaden are taken; from North Carolina to 
