New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-19
PISCICULTURE.
rr.s..ted ar7leE.Y. Tribune fr.n the Rev

n. I,
In QUE days fishes are cultivated upon spots OF the
earth covered with just as rye corn barley grass
and other plants are cultivated upon the dry grolnd
Hence the expression PscicultIre. sgnliyng ash
breeding SpaWns ar:lhcisy ifucthed are ~ present
sovn in the water just SOW the seed OF Wheat N
the field
In lecture delivered before the Academy OF Sciences
IN Paris. in the year l-s Prot Quatrrisge encouraged
he people living the backs of rivers 20 make US 0i
The means discovered NAM years before for the matt
p'vlng Of FISH The process of artifcisv fructfying
spawn Is no new invention As early as the middle II
the last century Carne; GOldsten published 3 pamph
let on the raising Ct trout About the year l76.b
NJ jacob. OF Hamburg cultivated the arr of rails.
irg and multpl, ing trout ana stm,a IL ItIv. SoA
larzsni proved the possibility Of Artifei.'y breeding
spsup and dscoverso the Avs Of frIctiyug them In
1894 the Italian naturalist kusconi aimed II the end
but The resnt OF his cndeayOrs w-re l known that
When. u i,i2 Agassi Nog, 40 o~-or emn-uc-d tneI
RESEARCHES fishes they hai no hao" e 81 at m lGe
last named rr> pu toe ru th-d spawn IN bags
Cf muslin and then into salt water, wle7tu? they dis
covered that they completely -opsd thsm.eves when
put into kettles where the water regularly reneSed >nd
kep' 81 low temperature. Nogt mtde tue observation
that over the slSsn saer moss Wa spontaneously
ioruec destroying tie eggs. his was cTea'sd Il "ouu
seem b. the st,guson OF the water into wnc ~ spawn
was uut The new INVENT tried .; first on iArse
scale by tsc 6,h.rmen named ttelNln and Kenny 81 IA
Brese IN the Canton 81 r. mont Ncdh-r vi them IS
either professor learned IN any ortnch o science Al
they know they taught by nature h-r,-h "nen
thee simple fishermen. the valley %; the Nas,es saw
how their branch o 1Cu.ry gr,dusiy tnug on th-y
thought 81 means 10 prevent L. lie TASK was the re
difficult them hey did rot know any hing Apout the
researches of their learned pedec Ssors OF whose exist
erce iheS not aware However they did no,
fear the difficulties. and went making ooserv atoms Snd
trials until, AZ last their patience was crowned win sue
csss IN the cold mponl ght nights OF November tn-y y
on he shore Of the lake looking constantly mo he eeP
water and Al the movements of The breeding trout ilry
saw that the female trout full tender for tSeir ~
would dive To the bottom the lake push the ssu1 aside
ana dig broad. bu, not deep hole wherein the spawn
were protected by SCR, OF slime, which cover them At
The tine the males ia the vicinity discharged u7r
mif the accidental mixing OF which with the spawn ere
st,d the impulse OF fs Ii the init does not rouch the
spAwn which frequently the case u "'t not
develop When the time OF laying their try IS pas the
trout both al+s and females, over the SPAIN ~lth
ssnd and small stones Tbs cover protects the Try 1m
beng washed away. but allows oi me tree circulation ui
water around them As soon as our fishermen had go.
tanned dist knowledge ct tins they tried 10 initiate the
operation. Auer having collected upe spawn tne! pIt
them IN 10 vessels, whore they came INTO connection Win
the milf and l.d them into box pierced with holes,
which they filled WIKI sand and sunk into uver Aver
lev weeks the young ones had made h-r appearance anu
another object was now how % feed and raise ihsm IN
TIN. too our 6rh- succeeded, and no, until they De-
heved that tie Young hsh could p,oVoe Tor themselves
dd they transplant lhem into tho rivers ana creeks Lhe
~ made secret "i their discovery anu Wherever
they were calico governments or private persons tAey
succeeded ia filing The waters VI d n'n VI milne "a
varcs Professor II the Jarcn des PLATES 10 fs visited
ia. r ..ttl. meut ~ sue report ON cir discovery 70
III. Minister Il Commerce ana Agriculture IN consequence
ofv hich both received commission ON large scale from
the French Coz eminent
Public attention once having been called 10 the cuiiva
lion of fish il was asc-Tiaued thai m England ~ 50,
Civil Engineer BY the name of Boccius had made a SUI
c4.,fl irsl 70 populate the Thames Recently An Asso
oiaon has been formed in London for the purpose 81
having IN. Thames hltd with -alm D. ant Mr Boccus has
been charged with The undertaking
In France, the experiments OF the nsnermen OF II
Br.,.e have formed imtator- rso engineers maze Use
Of their ex erience and up establishment near Hun
nngeu icy the purpose ct raising h-h According e. ther
reports they ha,- produced upward "f ''VYOo u'i ."
different species They FAY they have dug great NUMBER
If sh ouds slong the canal connecting The Rhone with
the Kline In th 81 the try bred. ana At er while tue
Whole canal may be- regularly provided nh TINS -r'ou
These gentlemen state the resut OF close oo'erNu"h
hst In the course of lew years all the ires waters o
France ight be- populated Accorlngt t. their rstmNs
II youc not b. difficult draw from the waters Of France
after a frw Years an annual revenue ct two mion' 81
francs They furthermore state lst. InN Wacuhel
spawus buried for several y-.rs IN chests hh-d Wtu
vet sal may be exported. without sustaining the l"ss
injury I'd sand is indispensable for the development OF
some peCi,s Of h,n and that II possible TO raise mixed
br, - tor instance. ct trout aud salmon lhey nave
imported great eXpeIse such species ct hh from Ter
any and Switzerland, the do not find II France aud
they bore TO raise them I,to b- regretted that the late
mai caiior the Rhine have pat many Of their hsh 'nds
under water n consequence ct Shcn many Of their for
,ci ~. have taken OF them IL - to be hoped
hovever that they will succeed IN nauraEug several oil
h,Iu ia tie canal