The Times publishes an interesting summary on the results of
fish culture in France. It is there, like everything else, superin- tended by the State, which keeps up at Huningue, on the Swiss frontier, an enormous fish-hatching factory. The expense of this place is about 2,0001. a year, the out-turn in 1861-62 was some seventeen millions of eggs, chiefly of the large fleshy fishes, of which about 34 per cent. were lost. So successful is the process that, although the establishment has been barely twelve years in full work, the fisheries of France have been restocked, and the rivers are "leaping with fish." Could not the experiment be re- peated in England by any one of the great proprietors? The Duke of Northumberland is spending thousands on most creditabl efforts to rear the cocoa-nut, the mangosteen, and other tropica-
fruits ; but 2,0001. a year expended on an English Huningue would yield an important addition to the food of the entire
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