REPORT ON ARTIFICIAL FISH-CULTURE. 6B 



When the com^oy will pass the i^oint of junc- 

 tion of another water-course one of its sections 

 as they are fastened by rings, could he detached 

 as a wagon is from a train, and given to the 

 engineers of the country traversed by this stream 

 of water; tliese engineers will take the portion 

 of the convoy in question, in order to empty it 

 in the localities which appear to them the fittest 

 to the purpose, and so ascertained beforehand, 

 and then will return it to the point of departure, 

 so that on its arrival thither, the great convoy 

 may unite all the detached fragments, and render 

 them to the establishment in order to take a 

 fresh load, if the first has been insufiicient, or 

 to wait until a second crop requires a new journey. 



The restocking of all the waters of France will 

 be accomplished then easily, since, on the one 

 liand the officers of the roads and bridges will 

 answer for the requirements of the service, and 

 on the other, the organization of the entire es- 

 tablishment, will require but a first expenditure 

 of 22,000 francs, necessary for the construction 

 of the shed, the guard-house, the digging of the 

 ponds, the purchase of tools, and of twenty acres 

 of oTound to be enclosed in the common alread^■ 

 "•iven bv the municipal council of the localitv. 

 The first expenditure, or an annual credit of 

 8,000 francs, will suffice to commence the work, 



