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Bridgman, Bellows Falls, Vt. ; J. S. Robinson, Meredith, 

 N. H. j Judge Tilden, Lockport, N. Y. ; P. H. Christie, 

 Clove, Dutchess county, N. Y. ; Jeremiah Comfort, near 

 Spring Mills, Montgomery county, Pa., and others. 



Mr. Ainsworth commenced nine years ago, with a 

 diminutive supply of water collected from a dozen or so of 

 small springs in his nursery of fruit trees. Leading these 

 through glazed tiles underground to a reservoir, he obtained 

 scarcely water enough to fill a hole an inch in diameter, and 

 that, of exceedingly variable temperature ; in winter, only 

 a few degrees above freezing point, and in summer, quite 

 warm. Mr. A.'s mind is particularly constituted for ex- 

 periment and analysis ; with this imperfect supply of water, 

 he has unweariedly pursued his object of making fish cul- 

 ture a branch of national industry, and may be considered 

 the father of the science in this country. The following 

 notice, taken from the Rochester Democrat of May, 1862, 

 shows what progress he had made at that time, and gives a 

 tolerably accurate account of his little establishment. 



" An Attraction in the Country Visit to a Trout Pond. 

 We were not aware, until a few days since, that within 

 twenty miles of this city there is a trout-pond in which 

 sport hundreds of the speckled beauties, fed every day by 

 the generous and enterprising proprietor with as much 

 regularity and care, as he feeds his horses and cattle. 

 Having been posted upon the subject, and, moreover, 

 having been summoned by a polite but pressing invitation, 

 we took a drive on Wednesday, in company with Louis 

 Chapin, Esq., to the village of West Bloomfield, and with- 



