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CHAPTER II. 



THE BREEDING OF SALMON ARTIFICIALLY. 



In the procreation of salmon art can aid nature 

 by study of nature's laws, and then carrying into 

 practical elFect the result of that study. Art can 

 remove obstructions nature meets with in her 

 operations — can render a field fitter for those 

 operations than it would be under natural circum- 

 stances; but art can only be a coadjutor, and I 

 therefore think that the epithet "artificial" ap- 

 plied to the breeding of salmon or any living crea- 

 ture is not altogether correct. Though I have 

 used it, I do not wish it to be understood in any 

 but a limited sense. I am going to show how 

 salmon may be bred in part artificially. The be- 

 neficial results of being enabled to propagate the 

 salmon tribe by controllable artificial adjuncts are 

 many. They will make themselves self-evident 

 to the reader of the following pages. 



The first thing to be taken care of in this way 

 of breeding salmon is that the spawning- beds 

 which are to be artificially formed, be supplied if 



