| Show HOW TO KEEP FISH ALIVE LIVE Na Natural I IMS i nio f i a n I hum mm I ll lt i t. t Pin of ur al I Consul on ul of f. chlan in lul In Inthe tho the Oh days doys plan l pick lIck ck Guenther of or Wisconsin Wll- Wll Wis w writes u of tt a r report that the thc French naturalists anti and Bryant Hront have made n a discovery with reference refer efer once nee to keeping lUve Which hl h ma may lie hp of or practical importance The he reported r discovery concerns h ti tiny tny alga b by itself not I ael advisable I to the limo naked eye which possesses O lh the tho remarkable property of ot the iii water in which It exists t It In a U state h of ht great purity for mm Ol an almost t unlimited II period The little plant possesses E I list o n m the tue advantage of or multiplying rapidly and amid thrives In almost all 01 kinds of fresh wat water To the the naf naked y oye the tiit tl presence en o of or the Uie tw algae Is noticeable notice lI able through th this the brilliantly gr green n color cohn of f the water provided It I contains con con- COI- COI a a. largo large number of or them The two t o scientists have haw succeeded I In In n keeping brook brool trout alive In iii a Irge rg sized 1 vessel sl 1 for six Ix weeks so SI that thai their ta taste t at th the thiC end of or this period did not hot appear aPPeal to be impaired In th the I least t. t This is nil all al the more remarkable remark I. I able ahl as ns it I Is well known that otherwise otherwise other other- wise brook trout can only be he kept alive 01 Jn in running water Leeches have been kept alive l by the Uw same sam i pro process Cl cess one and amid 11 one half years cars without change of water I Experiments have hn already been made to make mali practical use of the lie discovery for the transportation transportation trans trans- or of or live Ivr flail Live brook trout rout for COl instance wore were shipped h by rail ri the Uw journey con consuming In ing seven n Ie hours hOUTS at a n temperature tIn t- t of or 25 ce decree tC in vessels filled with waters v tem to 0 which these algae alAne had been a added ce Time The trout trout were wrt nil all fresh upon arrival while oth others ls shipped eel at the lie rime rame rn tune In pure pUr water not riot containing these al algae lo not a n single ln lC trout trou arrived alive e The Chic explanation n of or this phenomenon hue phe- Is 1 probably that these al algae ap like Iw other green plants decompose the timi th carbonic acid exhaled h by the time fish and so tIme the water The Tue Theto t two scientists are arc al also aio n of or the opinion that th the algae render t the hI poison lOl which may maj have b secreted by the thc lh fish ishi h harmless I |
