78 STOCKING STREAMS. 



in a few hundred, or even a few thousand young. If an ex- 

 hausted Trout-stream had ten thousand young put into it, 

 every year, for three years, it would then stand the strain of 

 moderate fishing to the end of the world. If you attempt 

 to stock your streams at all, don't do it half-way. Kemem- 

 ber that the less fish you put in, the longer you will have 

 to wait. It is much easier to stock a stream than to raise 

 fish in ponds ; because the young fish will take care of 

 themselves better than any one can take care of them ; and 

 if they are protected from danger, until they are forty-five 

 days old, they are then tolerably able to take care of them- 

 selves. In stocking a stream, the young fish should be 

 taken to its head-waters, or put into the springs, or little 

 rivulets, which empty into it. As they grow larger, they 

 will gradually settle down stream, and run up again to the 

 head-waters in winter to spawn. 



When putting fish into a stream, do not put them sud- 

 denly into water much warmer than that of the vessel in 

 which they are brought. They will not so likely be in- 

 jured by putting them into colder water ; but try to avoid 

 all sudden changes, and gradually raise or lower the tem- 

 perature of the water in which you bring them, until it is 

 even with that of the stream in which they are to be placed. 



Will it Pay ? — This question has been asked of us more 

 often, perhaps, than any other, and is more difiicult to an- 

 swer. The same energy and tact, which will make any 

 other business pay, will make this pay. Many men start 

 in the dry-goods business; not many succeed. And yet 

 the dry-goods business pays. While Trout are selling at a 

 dollar per pound, the business certainly must pay. Even 

 if they come down to twenty-five cents per pound, the 

 profit must still be large. But all persons do not have the 

 natural ability required for this business, and would not 

 succeed in it. Not all men can be good farmers, or law- 



