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the season of 1864 there had been distributed from this establish¬ 
ment one hundred and ten millions fry, and yet it is carried on upon 
a still grander scale under the auspices af the Deutscher Fischerei 
Verein.” This society is the fish-culturalists association of the 
German confederation, and among its most active members are 
Count Bismark, the Grand Duke, Our Fritz, Count Munster, and 
others, and through the agency of this society hundreds of rivers 
and lakes are once more teeming with the finny tribe. 
We quote from Professor Baird’s report. He says, u that the es¬ 
tablishment at Nikolsky Rusva can fecundate yearly 5,000,000 
white-fish, 2,000,000 trout-eggs, and 1,000,000 salmon eggs, besides 
furnishing 1,000,000 eggs to the trade. Up to the year 1868, this 
establishmont received a yearly subsidy of $21,000, but since that 
year it became the proporty of the Government, and is at present 
under the control of the Agricultural Department.” 
M. Bouclion Brandlev, assisstant secretary of the College of 
France, in a report to the Minister of Public Works, says: “Be¬ 
fore reviewing the establishment which I have visited, I must 
mention a fact selected from a large number. The inhabitants of 
the village of Vallorbe, near Jounge, about twenty years age, lived 
from the fisheries of the River Orbe; by exhausting this river 
which was rich in the salmon kind, without ever replenishing it, 
the fishers and their families Tvere reduced to want, but their 
school-master, hearing of fish-culture, commenced experimenting; 
the villagers seeing that his experiments were successful, appropri¬ 
ated a few hundred francs to assist hin in his enterprise, and now 
the river swarms with fish, and according to the official report there 
are eighty families that live entirely off these fisheries.” 
The above shows what one person can do. 
The statutes of Massachusetts have three hundred and fifty-nine 
acts for the protection of fish, but with all this protection the fish 
grew scarce until artificial hatching w T as commenced, in 1857, and 
in four years the fish were plentier than they had been in fifty 
years. 
Since submitting our last report, w^ehave received from the United 
States Fish Commissioner twenty-five thousand Atlantic salmon- 
spawn, but owing to bad packing, only hatched eighteen thousand, 
or 72 per cent. The young fry were put into Elkhart, Cedar, Rock, 
and Devil's Lake. We also received thirty-eight hundred and fifty 
