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or vessel should be rocked to and fro, while stopping, 

 so as to oxygenate the water. For a small number of 

 fish a bucket or pail can be used. Mr. Christie uses ordi- 

 nary milk cans holding about twenty gallons in transporting 

 trout in a wagon, carrying from fifty to a hundred in a can. 

 When trout cannot be procured for stocking ponds, and 

 one is willing to wait a few years, much trouble and expense 

 can be saved by hatching the spawn. This can be procured 

 at about ten dollars per thousand of Seth Green, Mumford, 

 Monroe County, New York ; or of Stephen H. Ainsworth, 

 West Bloomfield, New York; or P. H. Christie, Clove, 

 Dutchess County, New York ; or Dr. J. H. Slack, whose 

 post-office is Bethlehem, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. 



