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good condition. The growth and condition of these 

 fish can only be accounted for on the ground of dif- 

 ference in the quantity of food. 



Mr. Crouch having, in addition to his 1,000 sal- 

 mon, to procure food for 20,000 more ravenous 

 brook trout, while Mr. Jerome had only the 1,000 to 

 feed, and that at the expense of the State. The old 

 adage holds true in fish culture as in agriculture, 

 that good feed makes fat fish as well as fat calves. 



How about the young salmon that were turned 

 out to perish, as I fear they have, in the barren 

 waters at this cold season of the year ? 



I was informed by Mr. Crouch that so far as he 

 had any knowledge, none which he had turned out 

 to shirk for themselves, more than a year ago, had 

 ever been seen. Again, let us look at the practical 

 results of the 40,000 salmon eggs which were sent 

 to me by the courtesy of Professsr Baird in March, 

 1872. 



These eggs were received by me at my hatchery, 

 then at Clarkston, in good condition, and so far 

 advanced that they hatched after lying in ice-water 

 for some twenty days. It was, however, the fact of 

 a change in the weather by which the temperature 

 was carried up to 55 , that hastened the hatching, 

 bringing the fish out about April 10th. Is it not a 

 question of weighty importance whether the eggs 

 of all the salmonoid family, may not be sufficiently 

 retarded in their incubation, by the use of ice, as to 



