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point in the lower Mississippi Valley, preferably 
near Morgan City, La., is regarded as highly 
desirable. 
The fishcultural work in Yellowstone Park 
has been conducted heretofore with inadequate 
means as an adjunct to the operation of Spear- 
fish Hatchery, but it is believed that the oppor¬ 
tunities in the national park are such as to war¬ 
rant an independent station. One of the chief 
difficulties encountered in the efforts to replenish 
the depleted fisheries of the Lbiited States arises 
from the lack of control over the fishes after 
they are planted and the neglect of certain States 
to make provision for their protection. Yellow¬ 
stone Park, being under federal jurisdiction, 
offers an exceptional opportunity to demonstrate 
the possibilities of fish culture under rational 
and consistent regulations. 
HUNTER 
TRADE IN BIRDS’ NESTS. 
. The bird s nest industry forms a singular item 
in the export trade of Siam, and according to 
the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts the 
shipments during the fiscal year 1900 amounted 
to 17.781 pounds, the value of which was 
£22,000. 
Most of the nests went to China, Hong Kong 
and Singapore. The value of the nests lies in 
the fact that they are edible, though we con 
fess we have never had the opportunity of tast¬ 
ing one. They are found in the islands off the 
coast of Siam and are the products of a species 
of bird belonging to the swift tribe and consist 
chiefly of the salivary secretions of these birds, 
whose salivary glands are much more developed 
than those of the ordinary swift. 
The nests are gathered from April to Septem¬ 
ber. The female bird takes the leading part in 
the construction of the nest, though some as¬ 
sistance is occasionally rendered by the male. 
The first nest takes about three months to con¬ 
struct and it is taken before the eggs are laid 
in it. Another nest is at once commenced 
which is finished in about thirty days. 
Last of all the birds begin a third nest, over 
which they spend about three months and in 
which they are allowed to rear their young. 
When the brood has flown, however, this nest 
also is taken. The nests taken at the beginning 
of the season are considered the best in qual 
ity. By the Chinese, who consume these nests, 
they are thought a great delicacy and are said 
also to have valuable tonic properties.—En 
gineering. 
WHALE STRANGLED ITSELF. 
. "1 he crew of a cable repairing ship working 
in the Pacific recently brought back a remark¬ 
able story of a whale. 
The vessel in question had been sent north 
along the coast of Alaska to repair the cable, 
because during the last winter difficulty had 
been experienced in sending and receiving mes¬ 
sages. The ship picked up the cable connect¬ 
ing Valdez and Sitka some miles off Cook In¬ 
let, nor far from Sitka. The crew never had 
such a time hauling a cable on board as they 
did that day on the Alaska Coast. Finally the 
cause of the great weight was made known. 
. Some time during the winter a whale, feed¬ 
ing on the bottom of the ocean, with wide open 
mouth, collided with the wire rope. Unable to 
shake the big wire from the mass of whale¬ 
bone in its jaws, the big mammal “turned 
turtle,” rolled over once, turned around, rolled 
again and dived. 
In these few movements the fish proved him¬ 
self his own hangman, for the cable was twisted 
tighter about the head of the whale than any 
man could have twisted it with the most pow¬ 
erful machinery. The whale drowned, and the 
carcass was devoured on the bottom of the 
ocean by fish. The cerw of the cable ship 
hauled up an immense load of whalebone, and 
found a great twist in the Government cable 
that had been the cause of the unusual diffi¬ 
culty in sending messages to and from either 
end of the rope.—New York Fishing Gazette. 
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