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tween these strips, would have the one end 
a little elevated. The box was anchored 
with the inclination turned up the stream, 
and the current, striking under the sloping 
box ami passing t hrough the gauze, the eggs 
were slightly agitated and supplied with the 
necessary stimulus. In this way, the prob¬ 
lem was solved, and shad hatching by the 
million was thenceforward inaugurated. (See 
Fig. I.) 
To secure for himself a remuneration for 
his discovery, Seth (Uiickn took out a patent, 
in 1807, for this shad-hatching box, and he 
sold rights to different States for a limited 
or an indefinite period, but so far, has not 
realized anything like the measure of return 
to which he is entitled for giving us this most 
important Improvement in fish-breeding. It 
is to be hoped t hat, should the measures now 
being taken for the introduction of had into 
the waters of the United States, (in consider¬ 
able part, to be under Mr. Green’s direc¬ 
tion,) be successful, Congress at some future 
time will not fail to take into consideration 
the value of the services rendered by him in 
the increase of the food supply, by making 
iatiovi for his benefit. 
signs then, if they are not. all of the best; al¬ 
low room to criticise each other’s work free¬ 
ly, and the result tnay be a general awaken¬ 
ing of the reading public; better and more 
beautiful homes will bo built, and finer 
grounds will surround them. Others, too, 
will catch the infection, from example, and 
great indeed are the possibilities whim the 
people enlist in such a cause, W. of New 
York City leads off in the right direction, in 
a late number, in his remarks upon the VVil- 
8 3n residence. 
And now, let, us invito criticism upon my 
effort, to alter that design, as I well know 
that, others will often detect mistakes and 
failures that we are only too apt to overlook 
in our own work. The rather long passage 
between the kitchen and dining-room is, I 
think, a defect, as it is a road that must be 
traveled a great many t imes every day. But 
M. H. H. wished a “hall” there, which, if 
admitted at all, should 1 >o as short as possible, 
ami is, probably, best done by placing tho 
pantry between tho two. 
Perhaps it may do no harm to add that, in 
carrying out the golden rule, it would appear 
that wo ought to regard the comfort and con¬ 
venience of our hired help as much as our 
own, and endeavor to lighten their burdens, 
and save unnecessary steps, by studying all 
parts of a plan as carefully as though our 
own wives and daughters were expected to 
do all the work ; indeed, the l>e«t of us know 
not how soon this may become necessary. 
Adrian, Mich. b. w. s. 
MODIFICATION OF THE WILSON COT 
TAGE. 
SHAD HATCHING BOXES 
The arrival of shad in the rivers along the 
Atlantic seaboard will, doubtless, induce the 
commencement of preparations on the part 
of our National and State Commissioners of 
Fisheries, looking toward the increase of the 
supply ; and with the encouragement fur¬ 
nished by their brilliant success in Connecti¬ 
cut, we may hope that the necessary meas¬ 
ures will be undertaken for restoring this 
This plan is in response to M. H. II. of Illi¬ 
nois, who likes tho outside appearance of the 
Wilson cottage, but desires various modifica¬ 
tions inside, chief among which arc two bed 
rooms opening out of sitting-room. (See Ru- 
uaj„, March 15.) It will be seen that tho dif¬ 
ferent wings of this design arc of tho same 
width, and nearly the length of the corre- 
an appropr 
Tho fact that this patent bars the free use 
of this simplest possible form of shad hatch¬ 
ing apparatus, has induced a considerable 
amount of inquiry in the devising of meth¬ 
ods to accomplish the same result without 
infringing on Mr. Green’s rights, tho main 
object of causing the current to flow from 
below upwards being a problem compara¬ 
tively easy of solution, although it is desir¬ 
able to secure this without great complexity 
of arrangement. 
One of the, arrangements (See Fig. ',’) 1ms 
been to employ a cylinder of wire gauze, 
with solid heads at each end (ftae.lt carrying 
a journal) resting hi a rectangular frame of 
wood, to be laid on the surface of the water, 
while the cylinder is made to revolve within 
t ho frame by means of floats like those of a 
water-wheel, cither at the end of the cylin¬ 
der or of t he shaft, or else placed outside of 
t ho cylinder, parallel with its axis. A gentle 
current would cause the rotation of this cy¬ 
linder, which may be made iu either direc¬ 
tion, according to which side of tho frame is 
placed uppermost. An opening In the cylln 
dor allows the- introduction of the spawn, 
and the rotation, it Is claimed, can be regu¬ 
lated in various ways, so as to secure the 
accessary agitation for the development of 
the eggs. 
Another method proposed Is that of a box 
arranged something like that of Seth Green, 
but allowed to float horizontally In the water, 
such an arrangement not infringing Green’s 
patent.. To secure tho upward movement of 
the water, and its passage through the wire 
gauze several strips of board are fixed ob¬ 
liquely across the bottom, so that as the cur¬ 
rent strikes against these oblique bars, the 
water is forced upwards. 
Another arrangement consists iu having a 
cavity below the horizontal hatching box 
open at the end, which is t urned up stream 
(see Fig. 3.) The water then Corning into 
this cavity, and of course being constantly 
acted upon by the continuing current, is 
driven in a gentle ebullition through tho 
gauze, and finds its escape through a grated 
open biffin the lower end of the hatching-box. 
A simple method of accomplishing the same 
object is to have two boxes, both open above, 
one with a solid bottom, and one opening in 
the lower part of the end which is turned up 
stream. Into this sots the regular hatching- 
box, an open rectangular frame, with a wire 
gauze bottom, the lower surface of which 
drops down to a level with the upper edge 
of the opening in the anterior end of the 
large box. 
Other devices have also been suggested for 
the same object 
Fid, 1 Seth gkeen's rox. 
important food-fish throughout tho entire 
extent of the Atlantic coast of the United 
States, How far the contemplated measures 
for stocking the Mississippi ltivcr and the 
waters of the great lakes with this species 
are likely to prove auccaesful, is of course for 
the experiment to decide, although there is 
every reason for encouragement to antici¬ 
pate a favorable result, and to expect that in 
the course, of eight or ton years, (if the Uni¬ 
ted States Commissioner succeeds, as it is 
stated he hopes to, in introducing them into 
the wat ers of the Great Salt Lake and on the 
Pacific Coast,) this far-famed delicacy will 
become more or less familiar to all tho In¬ 
habitants of the region east of the Mississip¬ 
pi, and indeed, to those atilt further west. 
In all this work, we must not forget the 
meed of praise due to Mr. Hern Green for 
pointing out tho way of hatching shad by 
the million, so as to render such experiments 
feasible, since before his efforts in this direc¬ 
tion the management of a few hundred thou 
sand eggs and young fish would have, tested 
HALF A CENTURY 
Chickkiuno & Sons will bo half a hundred 
years old in a few weeks. Fifty years of 
business life from father to sons, and the firm 
younger in its virile strength and more pros¬ 
perous than ever ! Through the overwhelm¬ 
ing competition of English and European 
makers in its growth, through the almost 
crushing losses entailed by the repudiation of 
the South in 18fit-03, and In despite of the 
brilliant and determined competition of other 
makers, great and small, the business of 
Chiekering & Sons lias risen from one piano 
per week to ten pianos per day, or sixty 
pianos turned out and disposed of each week 
in the year. 
Nearly fifty thousand of the Chiekering 
pianos are iu use in this country aud else¬ 
where. Tills number would have been more 
than doubled but for the fact that Chiekering 
& Sons were the pioneers of American manu¬ 
facture and had to light for twenty years, 
when the sales wore necessarily difficult and 
slow, against the universal preference for 
pianos of foreign manufacture. Theirs was the 
light and the struggle against a foreign foe, 
whose discomfiture made tho way easy for 
other manufacturers in America to pursue 
the business with success. 
The death-blow to the importation of for¬ 
eign pianos was the voluntary use of the 
Chiekering grand pianos by, chronologically 
speaking, Richard Hoffman. Slraknscli, Clott- 
scItalic, and Higisnmnd Tlialberg, and a host 
of other pianists, in preference to those of 
the European makers—Erard, Ple.vel, Broad 
wood, and Herz. Tills was the blow which 
literally put an end to importation, and the 
American grand piano was left in undisputed 
possession of the. American Continent, both 
for public and private purposes. 
If this was a bloodless it was a great 
national victory achieved by Chiekering & 
Hons, and a victory which has been shared by 
at least one other maker in the country, who 
has fought the difficult way up to tho front 
rank by indefatigable industry aud skill. 
The fiftieth anniversary of any great busi¬ 
ness in this count ry is something to be proud 
of, when wo remember how great houses 
rise anil fall—Jlasli out into sudden brilliancy, 
and sink suddenly into obscurity, leaving, 
literally, but the memory of a name. Chiek¬ 
ering Hons to-day is a young firm, with all 
the experience, of age. It benr» the honors of 
Jonas Chiekering, rightfully called the “fa¬ 
ther of the American piano,” the inventor of 
the “iron frame,” and the " grand circular 
scale”—improvements which have revolu¬ 
tionized the pianos of tho world ; and the 
inoro recent honors springing from the inher¬ 
ited skill and genlous of the present head of 
the firm, developed in their magnrfiicent 
instruments of every class, and culminating 
in t he. decoration of the Legion of Honor at 
the great Paris Exposition, m 1807, as a spe¬ 
cial and peculiar recognition of transcendent 
mechanical -kill. -a 
Ho Chiekering & Hons may well celebrate J 
their fiftieth business anniversary. They 
may remember with heartfelt sorrow how 
death lias blotted out two honored and be¬ 
loved names from the firm scroll ; but they 
can say, with proud consciousness, that they 
have maintained the honorable name be¬ 
queathed by the founder of the firm, and 
have extended the reputation of Chiekering 
<& Hons to the ends of the four-quarters of 
the globe or to wherever modern civilization 
has obtained a foothold.— Watuon’a Art 
Journal, Feb, 22d, 1873. 
contains about the same amount of room, 
and in a- shape that is preferred to a square, 
by many good judges, especially where so 
large, a bay-window projects from the side. 
Tho pantry is e;ist of Hie kitchen, as desired. 
To some, it will seem too far from the dining¬ 
room, and would lie preferred between that 
room and the kitchen, in place of the small 
bedroom. But the ample china closet in the 
passage, and the narrow closet for silver, &c M 
opening into dining-room, will bo a great, 
help. A sideboard might also be added 
to dining room, from the end of kitchen pi 
azza. Tho bath-room occupies a warm cor¬ 
ner back of the kitchen chimney ; if desired, 
a door may conuect it with small bedroom. 
The second story would be so much like the 
first that a separate plan is hardly necessary. 
I am glad that a paper of so much influ¬ 
ence, and having such a wide circulation, as 
Fra. 3- lu.vm.viMj CYMNor.it Box. 
the capacity of most of our fish-breeding es¬ 
tablishments. 
As is well known, the ordinary method of 
artificial hatching of fresh eggs after t In- 
impregnation of the spawn, consists in plac¬ 
ing them in boxes with gravel beds or bot¬ 
toms of glass rods, and allowing a gentle cur¬ 
rent, of water to flow over them during tho 
time necessary for their development, this 
ranging from a few days to several months. 
Sbth Green, in his first experiment in 
hatching shad, placed thoeggsin boxesabont 
three feet long by on© and a half wide, with 
wire-gauze bottoms, and the boxes were then 
allowed to float in 1 ho current of a stream, 
iu accordance with tho method long since 
idopted in Europe, tho top of tho box being 
sufficiently above the water to keep thu eggs 
from being washed out. It was found, how¬ 
ever, that the current of water passed di¬ 
rectly under the boxes and did not act suffi¬ 
ciently on the eggs, which became foul, and 
failed, ill large part, to hatch out. The ques- 
I, none possess 
the simplicity of construction and the ease 
of preparation and manipulation of the orig¬ 
inal box of He'I'ii Green. *** 
FISH CULTURE IN AQUARIA 
I have been very much interested, in your 
articles under Pisciculture, but 1 have not 
noticed any information relating to keeping 
fish in aquaria. Can fish bo kept alive any 
length of time in an aquarium l Last winter 
T purchased a large glass globe containing a 
pair of gold-fish; 1 also procured some pre¬ 
pared food, which 1 fed them as directed, 
changing tho water twice each day. One of 
the fish soon became quite poor and died ; 
the other is still living and is quite lively. 
Perhaps there is something bettor to feed 
them than this food that i bought with the 
fish. Will fish of a mottled. black and pale 
gold color ever change tq bright gold-fish— 
I mean fish of the carp family (Qygrinus Au- 
ratus)—or are fish of this class always of a 
bright gold color ? w. L. D, 
Fig. 3— Horizontal Box. 
tion therefore, arose, how to give the eggs 
that aeration which they required, and with-* 
out which a large percentage must succumb. 
Mr. Green then conceived the plan of nail¬ 
ing a strip of board on each side of the longer 
axis of the box, but so inclined that when 
placed in the water, the box, embraced be¬ 
Ladies' Work-Stand. (See page255.) 
the Rural New-Yorker, gives its pages so 
freely to the publication of plans for homes, 
and believe it maybe made the medium of 
much good, if the people will only speak 
their minds, without fear of what profes¬ 
sional architects may say, Give us the de- 
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