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PISCICULTURE. 



transported from the Hudson to the Sacramento in California. 

 The ova and fry of different varieties of fish are forwarded 

 from this country to Europe ; and England has successfully 

 transplanted the ova of salmon into the rivers of Aus- 

 tralia. 



Thaddeus Norris, of Philadelphia, the accomplished writer 

 and angler, has interested himself in the art of water-farm- 

 ing, and has published a work on American fish-culture, as 

 has also Seth Green, and the knowledge of pisciculture is 

 increasing in every civilized country on the face of the 

 globe. 



For thousands of years have the people of heathen China 

 propagated fish from naturally fecundated spawn, and fed 

 their starving millions. The liquid containing the ova is sold 

 in China-jars or vases, and the fry that are taken by divers, 

 who gather them in nets from the bottom of the rivers, who 

 preserve them in copper vessels, feeding them on the pul- 

 verized yolks of hard-boiled eggs, changing the water often 

 until placed in the needed streams or ponds of the " Flowery 

 Kingdom," thus increasing the food for that over-populated 

 nation. 



It is impossible at this early period in the cultivation of 

 the art in this country to estimate the immense advantages 

 that will accrue to the unborn millions of this Western Hemi- 

 sphere. The nineteenth century has not developed an in- 

 vention of as great magnitude, neither do ancient or modern 

 times record a discovery of so great importance to the hu- 

 man race. 



A subject that has engaged the time, the talents, and the 

 ingenuity of the philanthropists of all ages, "the providing of 

 food for the poor and toiling masses," has been solved by 

 two humble fishermen of La Bresse, in France, and their 



