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Title: Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people
Year: 1871 (1870s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Company Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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climates. At Stormontfield, where theeggs have no shelter, the usual period is about Itiodays ; but salmon ova have been known to bursb inabout half that period, and to yield very healthyfish. Great care is of coui-se necessary in handlingthe ova. The eggs manipulated at Huningue areall carefully examined on their arrival, when thebad ones are thro%vn out, and those that are goodare counted and entered in a record. The ova arewatched with great care, and from day to day allthat become addled are removed. The applicationsfor eggs, both from individuals and associations, arealways a great deal more numerous than can besupplied; and before second applications ?an be PISCICULTURE. entertained, it is necessary for the parties to give a , the cost of pisciculture at Huningue, that the mostdet:iiled account of liow their former efforts sue- . expensive fish is the omhre chevalier. Of someceeded. It may be interesting to note, as regards i species, as many as sixty or seventy per cent, of the
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Reception h ul i i j. lah e^^a at Hunmgue. eggs are lost. Tlie general calculation, however, istwelve living fish for a penny. The total number of all kinds of fishes distrib-uted from Huningue, during the first ten yearswas upwards of HO millions ! See Huningue. A very successful effort in pisciculture has beencarried out in connection with the salmon-fisheriesof the river Tay. At Stormonttield, near Perth, aseries of ponds have been constructed, and a rangeof breeding-boxes laid down capable of receiving300,000 eggs ; and in a large addition to their rental,the proprietors of the Tay fisheries are reajiing thereward of their enterprise. The operations atStormontfield were begun in 1853, and from theend of November till the end of December, 300,000ova were deposited, and these coming to life inApril 1854, remained in the boxes and ponds onehalf for one year, and the other moiety for twoyears before they assumed the scales of the smolt,and were seized with the migratory instinct. SeeS

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