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established at Locchlebrun, near Huningue, continued the op 
erations of hatching trout and salmon on an extensive scale. 
By their second report in March, 1852, they announced that 
since the November preceding 722,600 eggs had yielded 
700,000 fishes. 
From the day when M. De Quatrefages called attention tu 
the advantages of artificial fecundation for repeopling the 
waters of France, M. Coste oceupied himself incessantly upon 
fish-culture. He explained the experiments on alimentation 
and growth of young eels, which ascend the streams every 
spring. These fishes, nourished by the débris of the butcher- 
shops cemented into a sort of pie, are fattened and made to 
grow very fast, attaining to the weight of several pounds in 
a single season. 
In 1853, the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, for 
the object of founding an establishment of fish-culture at 
Tluningue, accorded a credit of 30,000 francs. This credit, 
M. Coste stated, “is to be used in undertaking 
most grand experiments of which the natural sciences have 
one of the 
ever given an example.” He also described the method fer 
preparing the food for young salmon and trout with a pie 
formed of butchers’ offal, or of horse-flesh boiled. A knowl- 
edge of the advantage of this feed was acquired by the ex- 
periments of Dr. Lamy at the artificial hatchings in the pare 
du Maintenon. 
In 1856, the subject of fish-culture engaged more or less 
the attention of a majority of the best minds in France, 
whether men of state or of science, or men of wealth and en- 
terprise. Though the felicitations and encouragement of the 
fishermen of the Vosges had not been cooled or diminished, 
yet the book-philosophers, having read up, became aware that 
hatching fishes by art had engaged the minds of sages in oth- 
er ages; and as that was the most simple part in the train of 
successfully restocking waters, they were studying and exper- 
imenting to acquire a more perfect knowledge of the nature, 
habits, preferable haunts, and means of subsistence. M. de 
