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HUNINGUE. 



the buMings at Huningue ; indeed the machinery of all kinds 

 is as nearly as possible perfect. 



The course of business at Huningue is as follows : — The 

 eggs are brought Chiefly from Switzerland and Germany, and 

 embrace those of the various kinds of trout, the Danube and 



BASINS FOR THE YOUNG FISH. 



Rhine salmon, and the tender ombre chevalier. People are 

 appointed to capture gravid fish of these various kinds, and 

 having done so to communicate with the authorities at 

 Huningue, who at once send an expert to deprive the fishes 

 of their spawn and bring it to the breeding or store boxes, 

 where it is carefiilly tended and daUy watched till it is ready 

 to be despatched to some district in want of it. The mode of 

 artificial spawning is as follows, and I will suppose the subject 

 operated upon to be a salmon : — ^Well, first catch your fish ; and 

 here I may state that male salmon are a great deal scarcer than 

 female ones, but fortunately one of the former will milt two or 

 even three of the latter, so that the scarcity is not so much felt 



