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weeks, it is natural to infer that all the eggs do not mature 
at one time. That this is the case has been proven by the 
officers of French fisheries. About the time when France 
endowed the Institution* of Huningue, and when the waters, 
which had tor many years remained still and dead, all at once 
became enlivened by the leaps of trout and the splashings 
of salmon, the “habitans” regarded the sight as supernat- 
ural, and an evidence that Heaven was pleased with Napo- 
leon’s reign. About this time, when France had first voted 
30,000 franes for the advancement of fish-culture, and then in- 
creased the sum to 80,000, the study of all residents along 
salmon-rivers and trout-streams was how to procure the eggs 
of trout and fecundate them. They read all about Joseph 
Rémy’s plan, and the result was that all the streams were rob- 
bed of game fishes for procuring eggs to sell to the establish- 
ment at Huningue. Of course the poor fishes were squeezed to 
death in forcing them to exude immature ova, and the streams 
becoming thereby depeopled, induced the unbelievers in tish- 
culture to set their faces against the wanton destruction. 
The French government then advertised that it would pur- 
chase no more fecundated ova unless the roe and milt were 
exuded by employés of government. Government agents 
thereafter were notified by those who had trout ready to 
spawn, and the agents visited the place, and took the ova 
only which was exuded without pressure, leaving the rest to 
restock their streams. Since then, water-farming has been 
an uninterrupted success. 
FURMAN’S NATURAL HATCHING-RACE. 
At Maspeth, in Kings County, which is within or joins the 
metropolitan district of which New York City is the centre, 
Mr. William Furman has been propagating brook trout arti- 
ficially for the past ten years; and as he is a gentleman of 
genius, energy, and means, and, withal, an excellent fly-tisher, 
his devotion to the art of fish-culture has been rather for love 
than profit. In his hatching-race there are millions of fecun- 
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