Show MARKETING FOR THE SEA COW it Is necessary now to cut through ice to get at the eel grass the man who does the marketing lor for the aquarium aquariums s sea cow has had to do some lively hustling this winter to keep that big animal supplied with food the sea cow Is eight toot foot long weighs pounds and haa has a healthy appetite in irk the first eighteen weel a after its arrival here from florida on sept 3 last it ate ninety bushels of eel el grass six bushels of fennel leafed pond poad weed and two bushels of ulva or sea lettuce maung making ninety eight bushels of aquatic plants in all in eighteen weeks or an average ot of about five and one halt bushels a week which Is about its present rate of consumption the eel grass and other things for the sea cow cows s table are gathered in gravesend Grave end send bay day or tho the waters therewith connected connect cd say that the present has been the hardest winter hereabouts on the water in twenty five years on oil many days it has been nee essary to cut through the ice fee to get at the eel grass required for the sea co v s food sometimes through ice ten inches in thickness and often through ice of five or six inches sometimes when the ice fee had bad moved out with a shift of the wind leaving open spaces access to the eel grass would be easy but frequently the ice would have closed in and then it would be necessary cesary ne to cut holes in it to get at the eel grass below so the work ot of supplying the sea cows table has been so far this win N in ter attended by more or less difficulty but there has never been a day on which the sea cow has had to go hun gry nw york sun |