The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-13

The cod is more popular in Europe
 than here. It is greatly relished by the French Italians and Spaniards, and t has formed one of the chief commercial fishes fer hundreds CT years. The Ro-
 mans and Greeks both ate it, and also the Anglo -Sa xons, who gave 1t the name of gad from which the word cod comes. gad representing the rod on which it was
 dried. It is claimed by some that when the Danes came from -ceiand along about the year 1900 and discovered North America they were looking for new cod fishing grounds, and it is said that the banks of Newfoundland had been visited
 by Spanish fishermen long before Colum-
 bus crossed the Atlantic.
 The codfish come to the shallow banks
 of the ocean to feed. They pasture on l the bottom of the sea- eating almost every sea animal smaller than they They eat fish of many kinds, and also crabs starfish and lobster. and even the great sea clam. In browsing along the bed of the ocean they pick up all sorts of things which have been lost from ing of scissors and oil cans in their stomachs. The heel of fisherman's boot was found inside a cod caught off Newfoundland, and about 50 years ago wedding ring was found inside a cod The ring belonged to Mrs Pauline Burna1n, an Englishwoman. who was lost when the steamship Anglo-Saxon went down, in 1861. The fisherman traced the | ownership of the ring and sent it back to the son of Mrs Burnam, who is said l to have rewarded him with a present of | S250
 In connection with the planting of cod : l fish and cod eggs it will surprise some Ito know that Uncle Sam now matches ict1 f.r !, tai, ,I,;1 4t., i he plants the yonug where he pleases. | Within late years he has been greatly adding to our food supply by picking out the best kinds of fish, and scattering them through the waters of the United States especially fitted for them. Just now his fish scientists are devoting themselves entirely to work along the lines of the war, but in the year before it broke out he planted 3.0O0oO0,0O or
 100000 GOO eggs or tiny fish and turned loose in the waters 200 900 fingerlings yearlings and adult fish of different va rieties.
 The bureau of fisheries has now 34 per | manent hatcheries, and more than 100 ubhatcheries. and egg collecting sta- tions located in 31 different states and in Alaska. It has floating hatchery in the steamer Fish Hawk The Alaskan hatcheries distribute great quantities of salmon in the rivers and streams where l that fish swarms, and they are planting shad eggs in smiliar places along our eastern seaboard. They are planting white fish in the great lakes and are set ting out oyster beds where the oyster has never grown in abundance before Some of the best oyster I have ever eaten are those which grow in these ar 1 tificial beds in the Gulf of Mexico and along the coast of the Pacific ocean. In i San Francisco you can now get excellent 1 oysters, whose forefathers. came from the Atlantic ocean across the continent ], in refrigerator cars holding POO barrels each. The oysters are planted inside stockades to protect them from their fish enemies and after two years they
 begin to produce for the market.
 The bureau Is planting fish not only in the waters along our coast, but in those of our streams, lakes and ponds. , You have all heard of the carp. That is an alien German subject which has been interned in our American ponds