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Show MARKETING FOR THE SEA COW. H la Necessary Now to Cut Through I loo to Get at the Eol Graaa. The nan who doea the marketing fur the Aquarium's ana cow haa had to a com lively huitllng tills winter to keep that fclg animal au milled with foot. T sea oow la sight foot lone;, wafgka 800 pounda, and baa a hmlthy . i aptwUt. In the Brat eighteen weuka after tta arrival here from Florida, on aVxpL t butt. It ate ninety bushels of el gram, alx busbola of fonnol-loafod ond weed and two buahola of ulva, or ace, lettuce, making ninety-eight VaaonJs of aquatic planta In all In eighteen woeks, or an averaiie of ' about fire and one half buahcla a a weak, which la about I la present rate of consumption. Tke eel graaa and other things for " tli sea cow's table are gathered In Oraveaend Day or tho watora therewith there-with connected. Baymen any that the preetwt has beoa the hardest winter aernaeouta on the wator In twonty Ore yeara. On many days It haa been noc-ssarr noc-ssarr to out through the loe to get at the eol graaa required for the aea cow 'a food, sometlmea thmuRh Ice ten Inches In thlcknesa and often through Ice of five or six lnchoe. Sometimes when the Ice bad moved out with a shift of the wind, leaving open paces, acceaa to the eel graaa would he eaay, but frequently the Ice would have cloned In, and then It would be necessary to rut holea In It to gut at the out graaa below. Ho the work of supplying the aea oow'a table haa boon ao far thla winter win-ter attended by more or leas difficulty, but there haa never been a day on which the aea cow baa had to go hungry. hun-gry. New York Bun. ' |