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family at large. Our friends have so educated 

 and trained the old queen, that she has become 

 as tame as a tame chicken, and eat minnows from 

 our fingers readily. This fish was taken from 

 the tank and placed in a pan for our inspection. 

 She is like all this family, truly beautiful. She 

 measures about seventeen inches in length. Her 

 weight we now forget, but with careful feeding 

 can be increased with astonishing rapidity. We 

 were presented by the gentlemanly proprietors 

 with a most beautiful engraving of her. 



It is the intention of these gentlemen to have 

 some of the old and a number of the young fish 

 on exhibition at the Ohio State Fair the coming 

 fall. The display of domesticated Salmon and 

 Trout, it is said, constituted a most interesting 

 feature at the great National exhibition recently 

 closed in France. 



Dr. Garlick is now engaged in writing a series 

 of articles on the " Artificial Reproduction of 

 Fish, " which appears in the Ohio Farmer. They 

 will be finally published in book form, and will 

 no doubt prove of immense value to farmers 

 and others who own streams and ponds in this 

 ^ country. 



In every State in the Union, and in almost 

 every county, there are numerous springs and 

 streams that with comparatively little labor may 

 be turned to profitable account for the produc- 

 tion of fish. Where brisk, cool springs are not to 

 be found suited for trout, ponds exist adapted 

 to various kinds of fish that delight in still 



