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The Salmon 



has rich feeding and has grown to a considerable size it may have as 

 many as twelve rings on its scales when it is only six months old ; but 

 notwithstanding this, in March, when it is a year old, it will only 



FlG. 53. April 1905. 



FIG. 54 i oz. August 1904. 



FlG. 55. i 



oz. Stormontfield Ponds. 

 March 1908. 



Fir, 56. ij oz. April 1905. 



have sixteen (Fig. 53). I reckon from March, the time the fry are 

 hatched, and will keep to this month all through. If, then, a parr is 

 hatched in March 1903 its scales will have sixteen rings by March 

 1904 (Fig. 54), and thirty-two by March 1905 (Fig. 55). It becomes 

 a smolt soon after, and goes down to the sea at the age of two years 

 and one or two months (Fig. 56). We see nothing more of these 



