The evening world., 1888-06-25

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Fruitless series-why the Other Attempt.
We're Failurss-Hew the Lobsters ana
Their EGGS We're Packed for Shipment
Lobster Exports Slight.
A despatch from Woods Hon, Mass,
printed in TIL WORLD, announced that q
United States Fish Commission car had left
that place with live Holsters for stocking the
Pacific Coast waters in the region about San
Francisco. The shipment consisted of over
six hundred Holsters, the largest proportion
being females. many of which are now carry
ing eggs nearly ready TO hatch. There was
also o lot of 400, 600 free eggs in the shipment,
and these will be Matched artifcially after
their arrival in San Francisco.
Fish COMMISSIONS Eugene G.. Blackboard
was very busy when an EVENING WORLD re-
porter called on him, but he granted the re-
porter q few minutes interview.
"Preparationsfor the trip have been going
on for the past three months" said Mr..
Blackford.
This is the third attempt to plant Holsters
in Pacific waters. They have no Holsters
there now. They have a species Of crusta-
cean called erayfsh, which have no claws and
grow to o weight of from three to eight
pounds. The meat is very inferior to our
1.-The first and second lots of Holsters that
were sent died, owing TO q lack of experience
on the part of those who had charge of them.
One lot was plugged that is, a little wedge
was inserted behind the claws-and by an
water without the plugs being removed.
In this effort Commissioner Mcdonald
means to place o large quantity alive in the
Pacific Ocean. This time the live Holsters
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salt water daily. The other provision to
stock the Pacific is by eggs. The eggs are
taken from the female and placed Oh trays of
soft muslin or thin flannel. The trays are
then placed in q refrigerator. TIL sold has
"On arriving at their destination they will
be placed on the tidal hatchery. This ma
chine was invented by the late Capt. Ches-
ter. who died last summer. The people at
Woods Holl have been very successful in
their experiments with this apparatus. It is
the latest discovery in fish culture. There is
one at Cold Spring which is employed for
Matching cod, lobster and other floating eggs.
A floating egg will not hatch unless it is agi-
plished by the tidal hatchery"
THE hatchery consists of o series of jars,
each of which is perforated at the bottom
with one large hole. IT tops OF the jars are
the bottom corked up, after which the Jars
are turned bottom upward In a tank of water.
The rise of water in the tank, and conse-
quently in the inverted jars, is regulated by
a siphon arrangement, so that the eggs
which float in the jars are treated with a CON
slant ebb and flow of the tide, which phe-
nomena recur every FIVE minutes. The
tidal Matching has been found to work like q
charm in Matching out cod eggs.
=" We will commence to hatch Holsters at
Cold Spring next month";
Mr.. Blsclford said further that export Of
Holsters wa very slight. II they could be
taken across and kept alive they would bring
As a general thing, Holsters nowadays dc
not run as large as they used to. but there are
still some pretty large cnes received. The
largest are caught off Sandy Hook and the
smaller ones are captured in the Lower Bay
and in He'll Gate. Some of those brought
from the Hook" tip the scales OF the twelve
or fourteen pound notch.