Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-12-17

ent, to what he says upon the artificial pro.
duction Of fish:
Fish have been artl6cialy increased and
preserved in China for centuries A little
more than hundred years ago. the subject
pegan To attract the attention of scientific
men In Germany, where the practice has al
ready reached high state of culture. In
England and France attention has been
but recently directed to this branch of in
dnstry, yet it promises to become of the ut
most Importance to the world. l will not
attempt description of the different meth
ods pursued in France and Germany. as
you will find one, better. written, and with
details which cannot go into, in more than
one OF our.scientific journals. l should like
TO nave some of our western men, who hap
pen to be the owners of small lakes or ponds
make the experiments for themselves. The
held for scientific investigation is large and
important, and the results, if successful, can
not fail to be beneficial. If all our ponds,
lakes, brooks end rivers were stocked with
the better kinds of fish, their increase secured
by artificial means, and protected against
extirpation by wise legislative provisions.
we should have cheap and healthy ar
ticle of food constantly at hand. 1t only
short time since Salmon was q luxury in
Hanover, Germany, only to be enjoyed by
the wealthy; now it is within the means of
the peasant as well as of the noble On
the 22d of last February l had a Salmon
from Hanovors on my table, which weighed
thirty-two pounds.
| send you the enclosed paragraph from
an English paper, as it not only serves to
illustrate the practicability of the artificial
propagation of fish, but conveys hint to-
ward the stocking of our great inland seas
which should not be lost upon cur country.
men:
"At recent sitting of the SOciete d. Ac-
cItmatat'On, DR.. Cloquet read an interesting
paper on a successful experiment recently
made by M. CoSte, in pond situated at
st. Cucufa, one of the domains of the En-
peror near St. Cloud. 1t had hitherto
been considered impossible to produce sal
mon in state of domesticity, without their
emigrating to the sea; NJ Coste's expert
ment proves the contrary. The small pond
above alluded to, situated in shady valley.
does not cover surface of more than two
and half acres. Its greatest depth is six
metres, from which the bottom rises in a
gentle slope to the grassy bank 1t receives
its waters by transudation from the high
ground with which it is surrounded. Three
years ago it was emptied for repairs, and
when it afterwards again received its usual
quantity of water, NJ Coste stocked it with
some trout, which are now four years old
and about foot and half in length. In
April and May, 1857, he added several
thousand liliputian salmon, bred at the Col. |
ege de France two months before, and, not
withstanding the havoc committed by their
7oracious enemies, the trout, they have
.hriVed SO well that some time ago, in the
presence of their Majesties, upwards of two
hundred kilogrammes' weight of these fish
we're brought up in a single draught of net.
They were on an average about a foot in
ength. But the most important circum-
tance which NJ. Coste remarked on this oc-
aslon, and which adds new fact to science.
vas that all these fish were in state of re.
the spawn which they contain
d had come to maturity, and it has since
'een subjected to artificial formulation; the
mbryos resulting therefrom are so far de-
eloped that they must soon be hatched.--
lence it is proved that salmon may be pro-
agated in close waters; and also, that sal
ION, like trout, begin TO spawn at the age
t eighteen months"