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Show HA TCHING SHAD B Y WHOLESALE I SE 1 V V 4 : ' A b.nl incubator , TfFII-: batteries that we read about In these dajs are for destroying life. But here is ono that doe3 quite the opposite. It is a creator of living things. Tho glass Jars, shown In tho picture, are for hatching shad. There are hundreds of them in operation at once, and the whole affair is called a battery. Each Jar contains from 50,000 to 100 000 shad eggs, and is provided with a siphon arrangement, slmplo yet ingyiious, by which tho eggs are kept continually agitated by a current cur-rent of water. The little flshes. when hatched, are carried out by the water through the siphon into tanks, in which they swim about happily until there Is a convenient con-venient opportunity to pour them Into big mllkcaris, ''- to a ri.er, ( and dump them oveibcvird. 8 Thousands of millionsof baby shad , hav e In this way been contributed to the rivers along the Atlantic coast J 1 by the Government Fisheries Bureau T during recent years. Were it not for , the persistent carrying out of this i plsclcultui al enterprise, the shad : would long ago have virtually dlsap- 1 peared from our markets. |