Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1883 — PISCICULTURE. [ARTICLE]

PISCICULTURE.

What is Being Done at the National Fish Hatcheries. [Washington Telegram.] Fish-hatohtng is attracting a good deal of attention at th 9 old Armory Building Just now, 760,000 eggs being received daily from the Potomac stations OoL * McDonald, who is ‘in charge of the distribution of expects the yield of this season to be npward of 60,000,C03 shad* Three car-loads are sent away every week. The production of young herring has been enormous and Mr. Page, who is in charge of the hatching, estimates that the yield of the season will be 100,000,000. CoL McDonald is devoting a pood share of the froduct of the season to slocking the upper otomac. The hatching at the Armory is In full operation, all apparatus being worked to the fullest capacity, It is expected that fully 28,000,0C0 good eggs will be secured from the Potomac this season. The lateness of the spring put back the Work considerably. _ Jax Gould Is in for homeopathy.