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JUNE,

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Tetragonopterus rubropictus.

HEEDE,

O. T.

THIS fish

is

At other times the sex can be determined by lifting them from the aquarium in a very fine meshed net and turning them down into the water. The female will fall down first; the reason

"The Blood-

very beautiful, spawn-

ing fish adapted to the aquarium.

Its

Argentina and the Southeast of South America. These fishes, although imported to Europe several years ago, are seldom seen in this country, but will, when known, be much favored inhabitants of our aquaria on account of their great beauhabitat

for this

is

ty, alertness

is

eye

—

— which easily

of the

This

net.

detect

to

male has some minute not visible to the naked

that the

appendages

the

sex

catch in the fabric is

an infallible way

are

temperature of the water in the tank

where Tetragono pt erus is

and

kept should be from 60<^ to 70"

They two

about

The

of the fishes.

steady health in captivity.

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the male.

Brooklyn, N. Y.

also called

fin". It is a

Number

1913

Fahrenheit; in breeding time

inches in length,

green and a silvery gray olive

from 15^

above,

and equally

to 80"

,

warm

for young,

stripe runs

newly

hatched

head

fishes.

to

from tail on

each side of their body. The ab-

domen

is

To keep fishes

silvery.

the water in the tank should be changed once in a while with

In bright sun or light

artificial

they look

steel-

blue, violet

green,

and

— in other

the

healthy,

TETRAGONOPTERUS RUBROPICTUS DniwinLC

liy E.

—

words, like a newly caught herring but with all their fins, (except the pectoral and the very small adipose fin), and their tail colored blood-red with a silvery outer lining; the bright red color is more intense near the body.

The sexes look alike in size, shape and color except just at breeding time, when the female has a heavier abdomen than Copyright. 1913, by

water

fresh

VouNO.

S

the

same

of

tem-

perature, and especially to get the fishes to

spawn, fresh water with a very

salt

added

The

is

little

necessary.

They are

eggs are white.

scattered

by the female all over the tank between the plants, and sink to the bottom.

Some 200 to 500 eggs are produced at each spawning, and they hatch in about twenty-four hours.

W.

A. Poys

The parent

fishes.

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like the different Danios,

the eggs and eat

them

hunt for

will

soon as the not prevented

W.

as

spawning is finished, if from doing so by either the eggs or the being removed to another tank, or by having the bottom of the tank closely covered by plants, as Elodea and Myriophyllum, kept down with small, not sharp-edged â&#x20AC;&#x201D; stones. smooth

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

parent fishes to another tank.

The young, after they are hatched, keep between the plants until their yolk sac

is

for

absorbed; after this they will hunt of which the tank ab-

Infusoria,

solutely

must have plenty,

anticipated

in

raising

the

if

success

young.

is

As

long as the Infusoria are needed for food, no into

the

Daphnia should be dropped tank, because the Daphnia

devour the Infusoria. Infusoria may be grown with perfectly dried water plants, especially Lemna, or Lettuce, powdered and strewn on the surface of the water in the tank, or by placing some hay in a glass with water and letting it stand in

the sun for a few days until the water or by using Infusoria gets yellow; producing artificial fish food, for instance Thum's, which can be bought in

New York City, When the young teen

are from ten to

days old, they

will

take

fif-

small

Daphnia and Cyclops, later finely scraped beef. At the age of six weeks, with care-

History of Fish Culture.

MEEUAN, Director Philiuh-lpliia Public

E.

Aciuiirium.

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fishes

But the safest way to protect the eggs and the young will be to remove the

^

is

now

generally accepted as a fact

that fish-life in fresh water streams

and other fresh water bodies can no longer be maintained, excepting in very remote places, by the fish themselves The steady by natural propagation. increase in population, and the resultant increased

demand

for fish for food has

produced a greater drain on the supply of fish life than the mature fish themHence in order selves can overcome. that the demand for fish be met, it

became

necessary

nature, by what

is

for

man

to

assist

called artificial pro-

If it were not for what he is accomplishing in this direction, it is safe to say that many of our familiar

pagation.

and best food and game fishes would by time be exterminated.

The fish culturist employs three methods of propagating fish, one is by means of troughs with water running under and over wire netting trays, a second is by keeping fish eggs revolving in glass jars filled with water, and the third is by means of ponds, in which fish are allowed to spawn naturally and hatch their eggs, guarding both mature and young fish from their many enemies. Only very heavy eggs like those of the trout and salmon are hatched by means of the troughs and trays. Semi-bouyant eggs and those which this

are yielded in vast quantities are hatched jar method, while pond culture

treatment they will have reached a already have the bright red color on their fins

by the

and

eggs either cannot be taken at all or

ful

length of about an inch, and

kinds of Tetragonopterus are imported, but rubropictus is the foremost in shape and color.

It may be bought quite reasonably; breedtail.

Different

and importers in Germany charge two dollars a pair for prime specimens. ers

is

reserved for those

fish,

from which

which cannot be taken excepting with

much fish

trouble or possible injury to the and a few nest building

culturist,

fishes that take

vigilant

care

of both

eggs and young, and where fertilization

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by natural methods is even better than by artificial expression.

Pond

culture

three methods. to

is

Its

very ancient

the

of the

oldest

practice dates back

The Romans,

times.

the Greeks and the Egyptians

all

raised

by that means. So did the Chinese.

Indeed there is reason to believe they were the first. There are records that more than five hundred years before Christ, a Chinese built a pond and

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and hatching of trout

in the middle of Seventeenth Century.

Curiously enough, his hatching apparatus was almost identical with that of the obscure

the

But Jacoby was a scientific man and he published his experiments and

priest.

The

fish

results

dotted

pamphlet was translated into several languages and excited widespread scientific interest, but no one seemed to think there would be any practical use for it.

It was not until after 1840 that fish culture by the artificial expression and fertilization of eggs was put to practical use, and it is a curious fact that it wasn't through Count Jacoby's discovery

it

with islands, with the avowed

idea of fooling the fish that they were in their natural environments,

the islands were

continents.

and that In

the

pond, the cute Chinese placed about twenty fish. By the end of the first year there were several thousand fine

by the end of the second, several hundred thousand, and by the end of the third there were so many that the pioneer fish culturist couldn't count them all.

That this man did business there is no fish,

doubt,

but we are forced to the con-

either outclassed that he Annanias or did better than any fish

clusion

culturist since his time, for there

is

not

one at the present time who could not count every fish he can raise by pond culture.

In fact pond culture produces less fish than any other method.

The artificial expression of eggs from discovered by a Jesuit in fish was France about the latter part of the Fifteenth Century.

He

eggs and hatched

them

fertilized

trout

in a hatching

box which he invented. His discovery made no stir and was forgotten after his death, and the fact that he had performed this important feat was not learned until many years after, and then only by the accidental finding of old records in the monastery, in which he Count Jacoby, a German noblelived. man, rediscovered artificial fertilization

that

in

this

a

scientific

came

about.

bulletin.

His

discovery

had become forgotten.

The world owes practical fish culture to two Breton fishermen. These two peasants became interested in watching trout spawn, and they made what to them was an amazing discovery, that the eggs of the trout were not fertilized until after they left the body of the female. Wondering if the eggs could not be pressed from the female, they tried it and with success.

They devised a hatching apparatus which proved successful, and then communicated their discovery to the French government.

The latter was profoundly interested and appointed one of the men, Gehin by name, a Commissioner to instruct others like that of the priest

in the new art.

Gehin's partner in this work, Mons. Remy was forced to drop out by reason of illness.

Among those who took lessons from Gehin, was an American, who imparted his knowledge to a Dr. Garland of Cleveland. Dr. Garland became enthusiastic and fertilized and hatched a lot of salmon-trout eggs. A few years later, in the early '60's, William Ainsworth, a New Yorker, started a commercial trout

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He was

hatchery.

followed

almost

immediately by Seth Green, and the commercial trout industry in the United States became a fact accomplished.

Seth Green was not satisfied to keep within one groove but investigated other fields of fish culture, and the outcome

was the successful propagation of shad,

and pike-perch, and the invention of the jar system, which now enables the National and State governments to hatch billions of valuable food fishes annually and all from eggs which would otherwise have been absolutely white

fish

wasted.

I

ik

had secured and went forth one bright day to scoop up a few dozen fish. It seems that on this day the advice of an expert

I

a dip net of the folding type,

the

fish firmly

but gently declined to be

taken. In fact most fish refuse to remain

while you sneak a net under and out.

This will work with chaetodons and other sunfish, but is not the right method for average rapidstill

lift

them

swimming

species.

say wasted because the eggs

shad and pike-perch from fish used by taken in the nets for market.

While fish culture was not discovered by the United States, Americans have of the whitefish,

the fish culturist are

given

it

the greatest attention and

made

Consequently the United States leads the world in fish cultural work. the

advances.

greatest

Dip netshowin? method of using brass rinss. net should be deept'i' tlian sliowii.

Drawing by L. M. Dorsey,

After several failures

The

Use of Nets for Collecting Aquarium Specimens.

WM,

\

T.

INNES,

Jr., Philadeiphlii.

LL

kinds of pets which we have ^~^ caught ourselves hold much more interest than those secured from other sources.

We can also provide more suitable surroundings for them when

we know

hand what Mother Nature seemed to intend. Our aquarium pets are no exception to the rule, and in first

consideration of the pleasant outing incident to the collecting expedition, it is little

line

is

wonder

that interest along this

rapidly increasing.

Many are deterred from collecting because they don't know how to go about it. I well recall my first failures with a dip net, and the seeming hopelessness of the undertaking.

Followine

and

I

The

Jr.

appealed to

my

good enthusiasts he was very willing to show me. The method of teaching was to take me out on one of his own collecting trips that The I might see just how it was done. main point as far as dip nets are concerned seems to be to work in narrow friend,

like all

streams, or in small corners or

pools

where the fish cannot get away. An overhand swoop is vised to bring the net into the water, striking as far out as possible

and dragging the net toward

you, catching the fish from above rather

than below. The net should be pulled toward the bottom and the whole move-

ment made

as rapidly

as possible.

By

overhand stroke the fish become confused and not infrequently dash right

the

into the net.

This method

is

rather hard on

the

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of the net where

edge

binding

it

is

frame unless it is properly made, but that is a simple matter. Brass upholstery rings about three-quarters of an inch in diameter which may be secured at a hardware store, are slipped over the frame at the attached

to

the

hinged joint. The net is laced to them by a stout string, threading alternately These a ring and a mesh of the net.

along as near the bottom as

possible, using the other

still far

enough forward

difficult to

Seining

work

is

mesh the

is

the aqua

to

make

strictly a

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one to

more

three feet

The usual minnow

seine,

four by twelve is

better

adapted to needs of

best for

purpose

better.

is

feet,

sized

manage

a seine in water

over stony bottoms and protect the net p e r fe c 1 1 y. In small

to

a bag wading proposition and can be used with splendid effect where the water is open and the bottom not too stony. It is

of the net.

than four feet deep

a

hand

the cork-line, which should be somewhat back of the lower or lead line, but

rings will stand a great deal of dragging

selecting the net,

of

aquarist,

the the

and

across and twen-

can be purchased at a reasonable figure

inches

about two

r ist.

Eighteen inches ty-four

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

good

dollars. In finish-

The other general method

ing a haul one

collecting

stands as a pivot,

deep

is

a

size.

of

man usually

with a seine.

This is simply

is

a

straight

of

SfiK

the net

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strip

while

his

ner

wheels

part-

around with the

netting,

net and brings

it

having a row of up on the bank. corks along one Frequently the long edge(upper) hauls are very and a row of large and conDRAWING A SEINE Photograph by Author. sinkers alongthe tain more specilower edge. The ropes forming the mens than are desired. This surplus binding edges, and on which the corks should be returned to the water and not or floats and the sinkers are fastened, allowed to die upon the hank. are extended a short distance beyond The accompanying photograph was the net and by which it is dragged.

To taken at a very pleasant outing recently use the seine two persons are required, given by the Chicago Fish Fanciers though there is a four-foot seine that Club in honor of the writer. On this may be worked by one man. The seine occasion the beautiful red-bellied dace is tied by the lower guide ropes to stiff and rain-bow darters were gathered in "Sticks or poles about four or five feet gratifying numbers.

The picture shows long.

Each man takes

a pole

and pushes

(Continued on puRe

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ground and scraped raw beef. Feed any

Where

Life on

of these "kitchen" foods sparingly and

with other foods.

Earth worms make a good food. Wash in cold water, then cut or chop fine.

Use judgement in feeding any food as alternate constantly

to the size of the particles.

All dried foods can be ground in a meat chopper

or a coffee mill, and then sifted through assorted sized strainers.

may be made

A

good strainer

of a piece of wire screen-

inches square, having about thirty meshes to the inch. Tack to a light wood frame and you have a sieve that will give you food of a uniform size for small and medium sized fish.

For fry use a screen having one hundred meshes to an inch. In general it is better to have the particles too small rather than too large.

About once a week drop table salt into the water. Don't be afraid, because ing (brass)

salt is

A

six

good for the

fish

in

many

ways.

half teaspoonful to 15 gallons of water

good proportion, although more may be used without harm. Salt aids digestion and prevents disease. A piece is

a

of ordinary chalk will

is

This

beneficial.

gradually dissolve and aid in the

formation of bone structure in the

and

shell for the snails.

'Jhe

next and

fish

concluding

will

T

IFE, speaking

generally, is most abundant at zero — that is, at sealevel.

At first slowly and then rapidly life becomes less abundant as one hunts for it upwards from sea-level, or fishes for it downwards into the depths of the

The

sea.

investigations of "Michaelthe North Atlantic in 1910 completely confirmed the view that the great depths, 4000 metres or more (over 13,000 ft.), are poor in living organism.

Sars"

in

Fish are most numerous in the

much

3000ft.,

3000ft.

and

less

6000ft.,

first

numerous between and the diminution

much more

rapid below 6000ft.

It is curious to find that some kinds of fish have a range of over 2000ft. in depth.

In a general way the temperature of the is

ocean decreases from the surface downwards, just as in the air it decreases irom the surface of the sea upwards; but in the case of the sea the decrease is very irregular, on account of ocean

currents.

One of

the

discoveries,

John Murray and Dr.

J.

due

Hjort,

to

Sir

on

this

exploration of the sea cruise was that in

one place

at

300 fathons, with a temthey found Arctic

of— 20 C, fish

discuss

of the cold seas; whereas

raising the trawl to 200 fathoms, or only

goldfish breeding.

(Continued from page 23

Most

is

-—'

fauna and

article

Our Earth

Abundant.

perature

(To be continued.)

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)

an ideal body of water in which to use The third person is running up stream to scare the fish towards the net.

This plan is only successful with some species of fishes. Silverfins will dash a seine.

past the "scare" man in directions away from the net. Our friends in the picture have both sinker and float lines attached to the pole, but it is considered better practice to draw the cork line by hand over the surface of the water.

600ft. higher, they met with fauna of the temperate zone.

fish

and

"By the way", said Ed St. Clair, who happened by the office door at that time, "did any of you ever catch an insane fish?"

"No. sane

What do you mean by an

in-

fish?^^

"Why, an insane fish is nothing more or less a fish caught within a seine.

Houston "Post".

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COMMENTS AND

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The September number of

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of business manager.

the maga-

zine will be mailed to subscribers dur-

ing the latter part of August. Announcements intended for that issue should

credit

have due Mr. Schenk whose the success of to insure the done much magazine. He has been succeeded by Mr. I. J. Ackerman, to whom should be communications regarding all sent advertisements and general business efforts

is

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Pressure of other duties has compelled Mr. C. G. B. Schenk to relinquish the office

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matters.

reach the editor not later than Aug. 5th.

The Auburndale Goldfish Company has removed from 920 West Randolph more commodious quarters at

Street to

1449 West where they

Madison

Chicago,

Street,

be glad to greet their customers, old and new. will

be observed from the advertisement of Franklin Barrett that he is the fortunate Philadelphian to breed the

THE WHITE SURF FISH

It will

Courtesy of Technical World

A

MOST

singular

mysterious celestial telescope goldfish, about which Mr. Innes wrote in the May issue. Our congratulations to Mr.

birth to fully developed young,

Barrett.

States

Concerning

the

effect

smoke on the aquarium ent of the

of

tobacco

a correspond-

IFochenschrift writes of his

appears that the tank was maintained in a tavern and required frequent changes of water due to its

investigations.

It

tendency to become turbid. Finally it occured to the writer that for aeration he was using the smoke-laden air of the tavern.

He then took the air from the outside and the turbity disappeared, but when the tavern air was again used, the water again became turbid, thus proving that the smoke-laden air caused the trouble.

He adds that his fish, veiltails, were more lively after the change, but that otherwise he noticed no bad affects.

JV. S.

Hilpert.

which

little fislj,

instead of laying eggs or roe, gives is

found

along the California coast. Specimens collected by members of the United fish

commission

July

1

were

stuffed with little fish apparently almost to the bursting point. In

some instances

the young had begun to escape from the

mother, the little ones being found in the water and in nearly all cases they could be easily pressed from the body of the mother, in which event they were able to maintain themselves in an upright position in the water and swim about. The adult fish are a silvery white color from 3.^ to 8 inches long and the newly born fish were from 1 to 1:^ inches "Surf fish" is the name it in length. goes by, and it is described by the fish as swarming in great numbers during the spawning season, in the surf or in shallow water along sandy

commission

shores.

Every haul of the seine resulted in the capture of great numbers of them.

Technical World.

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Regular meetings 2nd & 4th Tues.in every month except July &\u'i:.HtFiurchiklBl(ls 702 Fulton St., at 8 P. M. Initiation Fee,

$1.00

Annual Dues,

$2.00

Chicago Fish Fanciers' Club Regular nu-otings on the Second Wt'dricsda v at 809-13 (!ity

Hall S(|u;uf Building, North Clark St,, at M. on Foui'th Wed-

137-139 8.30 P.

President, Dr. Frederick Schnkideb, 64 Grove Street.

Vice President Geo. W. Post, 52 Herkeme Street.

Correspoiidins and Recording Sec'y, ...Hakry Roessle, 116 Harman Street.

Treasurer, .Theodore P. Fritz, 805 Halsey St. Library J. Schweickert Local Editor Dr. Frederick Schneider, 64 Grove Street.

Local Business Manager Owen H Smith, 702 Fulton Street

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Tuesday, June 10th: Regular Business Meeting.

Tuesday, June 24th: Exhibition Meeting.

nesday where announced.

Initiation Fee,

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Society

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Regular meetings on Second Thursday at

the the

History, 77th

St.,

German-American School, Sherman Ave., .Jersey City, and on the Fourth Friday Ht the American Museum of Natural

and Central Park West,New

York, each month except Corre.July and August. sponding membership fl.OO Annualiy.

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Initiation Fee. %\

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Dues,

$1.80.

Membership

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Minneapolis

Aquarium J-

G. Orsinger, 123

W. Gage,

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— Aquarium

Fishes. Iheir Diseases and Cures

by Mr. Rodick.

Friday, June 27th: General Conference.

Hew to keep Fishes during the Summer. (No meetings during July and August.)

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President Vice President Treasurer Secretary Local Editor Local Business Manager

Annual

Regular meeting on First Monday at 105 Grand Ave.

Society

F.

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H. R. Lippincott, Collingswood, N. J Charles Paxson, 2534 N. 11th Street Hiram Parker, 224 N. Wilton Street L. M Dorset, Jr 2219 N. 19th Street Wm. T. Innes, Jr., 1824 N. Park Ave. L. Fvl. Doksey, Jr., 2219 N. 19th Street

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W, A. Poyser, Hammond, Ind.

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Correspondijig .fl.OO

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Wednesday, June 11th: — Business Meeting.

Wednesday, June 25th: -Regular Meeting.

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President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Librarian Local Editor Local Business Manager

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W. A. Brye,

Monday, June 2nd:

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President

Treasurer Secretary

J.

Meeting

at 105

304 Fifteenth Street

Grand Ave.

F. L. Tappan, 92 South 7th Street W. Franzen, Curator Museum Pub. Library

Mrs.

Anna Essene,

3421

Longfellow Ave. South

Boston

Aquarium Society

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Tennant Lee,

President Secretary

Treasurer

Chas. W. Alden,

Franklin

A.

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Packard,

18

School

St.,

Uroomfield 5

Perry St

St., ,

Dedham, Mass.

Boston. Mass.

Cambridge, Mass.

Try your hand I

am now

bookinj^- orders for

at raising

8PAWN

some Prize Winners. and valuable varieties

for the following exceedingly rare

of Japanese Goldfish.

Scaleless Veil-Tail Calico Telescopes, (Quetn Lil.) C;up Winners and 3 times Diploma Winners, Pliiladelphia

Aquarium

$5.00 per ICO eggs Society.

$10.00 per 100 eggs Wonderful Japanese Lion-Heads, (King Bull Bull) Winner of 2nd Diploma, Philadelphia Aquarium Society. $15 00 per 103 eggs Wonderful Celestial Telescopes. (Goo Goo) Winner of Blue Ril^bon, Philadelphia Aquarium Society, 1913. $10.00 per 100 eggs Wonderful Hooded Orandas, (Tokio) Winner of Bine Iiibl)on, Philadt^lphia Aquarium Society. 1913.

The nbove 3 bieeds bred successfully tirst time in America.

Japanese Ribbon Tail Telescopes, (Blue BfII) $3.00 per 100 eggS Winner Blue Ribbon, Philadelphia Aquarium Society, 1913.

Japanese Calico Scaleless Shubunkins, (Dexter) $3.00 per 100 eggS Winner of Blue liiltbon, Philadelphia Aquarium Society. 1913.

Japanese Scaleless Nymphs, (Teddy R. $5.00 l)er 100 eggs Witnier of Blue Ribbon, Philadelphia Aquarium Society, 1913.

Japanese Black Moor Telescopes, (Eliza) $5.00 per 100 eggs Winner of Blue Ribbon, Philadelphia Aquarium Society, 1913 Japanese Scaled and Scaleless Telescopes, (lUbboii Wiuiieis) $3.00 per 100 eggS " •' " '• "' Fringetails,( $3.00 per 100 eggS *' " '' Telescopes, (Best Stock) $2.00 per 100 eggs '• '• Fringetails, $1.00 per 100 eggS Live Insects (Daphnia) for feedintr to young Fry $1.00 per 251b can Full printed Insti iicti Ji"s of how to successfully raise Japanese Gold Fish in Aquariums and Tanks at home, furnished free with eveiy order )

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Prices quoted on Aquaria and special wood Breeding Cage.s.

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Foods and Plants, Birds and Cages, Bird Seed, Mocking-Bird Food, Etc.

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market.

Daphnia.

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The

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4 Sizes

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President of Acjuariuni Society of I'liiladelphia

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VAHLE,

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New York

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is

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AVE.

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Aquarium Society

of the writes

President

AQUARIUM people.

of (iold

Axr>

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designs

Water

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Bxeliangei concidered.

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Correspondence solicited

AQUARIA

Aquaria Tanks Fish Globes Ornaments, Etc.

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N. State Street

CHICAGO,

ILL. 144U

Write

of all kinds

Goldfish

Birds, Cages, Seeds, Etc.

114

Aquarium Plants

Imported

SUPPLIES

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CO., RACINE, WIS.

West Madison

for Price List

Si'iid

for Catalog

St.,

Chicago,

111.

and Trade Prices

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