Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1860-04-28
Artificial Breeding of Fish.

We have been favored with copy Of o
letter from Governor Wright, of Indiana,
now United States Misister at Berlin, to d.
Howland, Of indianapolis. 1t discusses sew.
eral questions Of interest to farmers aud
hortlculturists, but We confne our extracts
at present to what ho says upon the artificial
production Of fish:
IRISH have been artifcially increased and
preserved in China for centuries A little
more than hundred years ago, tho subject
began to attract the attention of scientific
men 10 Germany, where the practice has al.
ready reached high state of culture. Iu
England and France attention has been but
lately directed to this branch of industry yet
1t is successfully cultivated in both countries,
and promises to become OF the utmost impor.
tance to the world. will not attempt des.
crlptlon OF the methods pursued in France
ano Germany, as you will Gnd one, better
written, and with details which | cannot 60
INTO, 10 more than one Of our scientific Jour.
nals. L should like to have some OF our
western men, who happen to be tho owners
OF small lakes or ponds, make the experiments
Tor themselves. The field for scientific in.
vestigatlon is large and important, and the
results. it successful, cannot fail to be beuefi.
cal. If oil our ponds, lakes, brooks and
rivers were stocked with the better kinds Of
iish, their increase secured by artificial means
and protected against extripatien By wise
legislative provisions, We should have cheap
and healthy article of food constantly at
hand. lis only a short time since salmon
was 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 had
salmon from Hanover on my table, which
weighed thirty-two pounds
.! send you the enclosed paragraph from
an English paper as it not oAly serves to
illustrate the practicabilty Of the artificial
propagation Of fish, bat conveys hint to-
ward the stocking of our great inland seas,
which should Lot be lost upon our country.
men.
AT recent sitting Of the Societia d Ac.
cimation 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 Emperor,
near st. Cloud. 1t has hitherto been cou.
sldered Impossible to produce salmon in a
state OF domssticity, without their enigratipg
to the sea; NJ. Coste's experiment proves
the contrary. The small pond above alluded
to, situated in q shady valley, does not cover
q surface Of more than two and o half acres.
Its greatest depth is six meters from which
the bottom rises ip q gentle slope to the
grassy bank. 1t receives its waters BY tran.
sudation FROM the high ground with which it
is surrounded. Three years ago it was
emptied for repairs, and when it afterward
again received its usual quantity Of water, Nj.
Coste stocked it with trout, which are now
four years old and about foot and half 10
length. 10 April and May, 1857, be added
several thousand lilliputian salmon, bred at
the College de France two months before, and
Notwithstanding the havoc committed by
their vorAcious enemies, the trout, they have
tbriven so we'll that some time ago, in the
presence of their Majesties, upward OF 200
kiliogrammes' weight OF these fish were
brought up in single draught Of the net
They were, on an average, about q foot in
length. But the most important crcum-
stance which III. Coste remarked on this oc.
casion, ana which adds new fact to science,
was that all these fish were in state Of re.
production the spawn which they contained
had come to maturity, and it has since been
subjected TO artificial Foundation the en-.
bryos resulting .heretrom are so far develop.
ed that they must soon be hatched. Hence
it is proved that salmon may be propagated
10 close waters and, also, that salmon, like
trout, begin to spawn at the age of eighteen
months" ."-InGiGnGpOliS State Sentinel.