FOREST, LJKE, AND RIVER 



the old Priory of Loch Leven — in remote ages, a 

 Druidical stronghold, in Roman days bestowed 

 upon the Culdee missionaries of the Cross. 



Some years ago I visited this loch for the pur- 

 pose of investigating personally the nature and 

 habitat of its salmo, — the gamest fish that ever 

 strained rod for me. It was a case of love at first 

 sight ; and at the great Howietoun Fishery near 

 Stirling, where the Loch Leven form is bred and 

 dealt in, I arranged for the shipment of 30,000 

 eyed ova to Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire. The 

 importation was a successful one ; the ova were 

 incubated at the Holderness Hatchery with slight 

 loss, and the fry were planted in one of my 

 streams at Soo-Nipi Park, by Commissioner Hodge, 

 in 1887. A ten-pound specimen has since been 

 taken. 



My visit to the Howietoun Fishery was a most 

 interesting and instructive one. There I saw thou- 

 sands of the world-famed trout, from fry an inch 

 in length to monsters weighing from eight to ten 

 pounds. At this magnificently appointed hatchery, 

 then owned and managed by Sir James Maitland, 

 upward of ten million trout are annually incubated. 

 Great pains are taken to obtain the strongest 

 embryos and healthiest fry. The milt of vigorous 

 selected males only is used ; all eggs are eyed on 



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