Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1913 — Molasses Killing Shrimp. [ARTICLE]

Molasses Killing Shrimp.

New Orleans, La. —Dead shrimp by the million and thousands of fishes floated on the surface of Lake Pontchart rain as a result of their feeding on molasses. The sweet diet found its way into the lake from the city •ewers when 600,000 gallons were recently let looae in the streets by the hunting of a storage tank. - The molasses contained about 2ft per cent potash to the gallon.