The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-17
FISH AT THE FAIR.
The Government Exhibit Shows How
Fish Are Eatched.

The Government Exhibit Shows How
Fish Are Eatched.
One of the most interesting of all the
government EXHIBITS is that of the Fish
cries building, says the ST Louis Repub-
lies worlds fair correspondent. Every
man and boy in the west is fisherman,
in fancy or reality. Thisuis particularly
true in May and June, when the million
aire and the elevator lad of the cities
alike carefully map out a fishing eXpedi-
tion which they will indulge in "some time
or other" alongside the farmer, the
rancher and the country youth. 1t is this
universal love for the gentlest and best of
sports that keeps the Fisheries building
crowded from early morning until the
gates are ready to close. The building is
large one, with center rotunda and
east and west anneXes. The
mercial exhibits of fish, and the
west annex to an exhibit of live fish from
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The throngs
of visitors, however, pour through and
linger longest in the eastern annex, where
the government shows the live fish re-
sources of this country and demonstrates
the methods of propagation. There are
fOrty-two tanks of fish in all stages Of de-
velopment and beauty, and it viii require
a lasso to break the average comtryman
away from here. In a recent interview,
one of the managers Of this annex gives
brief sketch of fish propagation, and here
is whathe says
THE first man who accomplished it
was j. L. JaCoby of Westphalia This
was in 1872, though two F'renchmen named
Remy and Ghazia discovered the art in
who Matched fish artificially in this cOun-
try was Theodosius Garlick of Cleveland,
O., in 1853. The process is simple, but it
has improved materially since first dis
covered. These exhibits that you see
scattered around in this part of the build
ing are Intended as an object lesson in
the history and progress of pisciculture
Fish could be Matched artificially for a
long time before it was understood how
to do it without having them attacked
and killed at once by fungi
"The first operation is illustrated in
that boat you see there with two fisher
men in it. The man standing is catching
shad in a net and passing them to the
man sitting down behind him, who is
pressing the eggs out of the fish into a
large pan. The milky fluid from the male
fish is pressed out into the same pan in
the same way. The fish are not injured
and are sold and eaten. The eggs, which
are by the same process fortified, are
carried to the hatchery to be Matched out,
One Goldfish Will yield 25O, 900 eggs and one
shad from 30,000:to 120,0 900.
'F'ish eggs are Matched by the move
ment of water over them, and conse-
quently they are divided into three classes.
The first class is the buoyant, such as
perch eggs; the second is Semibuoyant,
such as shad and whitefish eggs, and the
third class is heavy, such as salmon and
trout eggs. BuOyant eggs are Matched by
an imitation of a tide. They are put into
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nately rise and subside. The senibuoy-
ant eggs are Matched by passing water up
between them from below. You see them
in those glass jars, where water is let in
at the bottom and runs over at the top.
The heavy eggs must be Matched by de-
posting them in trays and having the
water pass over them, as you see done in
the long narrow boxes. If you viii scru-
tinize the eggs in the glass jars you will
see the fish in the eggs, and as soon as
they are Matched they pass off with the
water and are put into tanks to be fed
and reared. All this is Illustrated in the
apparatus of the exhibit"
IMPORTED EXroRTIoN.
Much is said about extortion at the
worlds fair. The worst of it is of recent
European importation, says the Times
Democrats correspondent. The vices are
always dear, like the cure of them. He
who expects TO court all the British bar
maids at the White Horse tavern will find
that what they want is his ''bottom dol
lar" phrase as old as the worlds fair
atsParis, which l attended in 1867 The
White Horse woman with red hair does
not want your bounty so much as your
| spoliation; never till the dollar at the bot
! tom is reached will the horse leech end
| her cry of Give! give!"
hear that it win cost $50 to sos to see
| all the shows here upon what is called
| Midway plaisance-wen named. That is
no reason why a person should enter
every one of them. 1t costs 81, perhaps,
| to see the Egyptian Hagar twitch herself
and call it the Nautch dance; but it will
not cost you a cent to visit all the pot
teries and ceramic displays with your
wife and see paintings on vases and tiles
which are matchless. | looked at a
single Dutch exhibit yesterday of blue