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_the entire lot as we T et the rear ones flying to the front as the 
insects were deyou he farmers of Kansas are under great obliga- 
tions to the little imk ae or, as some call them dagsa for 
their penras last summer. — W. J. MCLAUGHLIN, Cen a, Kansas 
[According to Professor Baird, this bird is es i a priiis bird, 
and is ‘im — Qistributed throughout Western America, from Texas, 
ote ois, eines and North Red River, to California, south into Mex- 
ico, and it has can Assen found in Greenland. — Eps. 
ITS OF THE Common RED Fox.— While among the White Moun- 
ns in Stowe, Maine, a hunter told us that the fox comes out of its 
Mikeni at sunset to catch g aP At this time, and also at 
e with the gun. I 
been observed leaping oe a a% crust of the snow. The far- 
mers say they do so to scare the field-mice out of their retreats beneath, 
in order to seize them. itida 
LOBSTER. — It is now almost universally admitted, that, in order 2 
k the yearly T demand, not alone for oysters, but also 1 
lobsters, craba, etc., some other means of rugcoauete must be me 
exertion has been made to resuscitate the fisheries by increasing the per 
duce by “artificial breeding.” Many oyster-beds that, a few years since, 
owing to the “greed” both of the oyster-dredger and the consumer, were 
Sa denuded of oysters, are now in a flourishing condition; and 
the artificial cultivation, not alone of nny put of lobsters, crabs, 
nace food-fishes (thanks to the genus of M. Coste, Hyacinth the Bauf, | 
le Docteur Sauvé, and other pe at paaka has ol out a 
complete commercial success. The French Government also, alive to the 
welfare of the fisheries of the coast, has panniers in e every ss 
manner the maritime industry of the seaboard, and has given concessions 
of portions of the foreshore to men belonging to the naval reservé 
er to have them mr iiia for the production of oysters, 
abate, and other fish. se grants have been ava ailed of to a large a 
extent by the sailors in attievent parts of France, and have been & souret 
ai me is 
other tanks, sea-fish, fit for food, are kept, so that the pise age 
enabled to study the habits of these various fishes, as well as the a 
hii to introd 
the wi 
confess they were completely ignorant of the habits, places 
etc., of nearly all the varieties of fish frequenting our shores. 
