Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1914-03-13 | Page 9 | Nature's Adjustment

Nature's Adjustment. In the cane oY all fish which take care of their young, a curious adaptation adapta-tion of natural law to circumstances is found. Those which take the greatest great-est pains and care in sheiic-ring their offspring have the fewest eggs, perhaps per-haps less than one hundred at a lay, while on the other hand, species of fish which pay not the slightest attention atten-tion to their young produce hundreds of thousands, and even millions of eggs, at a single lay. 1