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A detailed description of our fann has been given so often in the pa- 

 pers, that it is unnecessary here, and besides would not be of much use 

 to the beginner, as our arrangements are made with reference to getting 

 the greatest possible quantity of eggs and young fish. We sell a few of 

 the largest and most unwieldy breeders each year. But, if our business 

 in stocking ponds increases, in the same ratio as it has done in past 

 years, we shall have more than we can manage. A few items, in regard 

 to the ponds, may be of interest. We have one pond, seventy feet by 

 ten ; one, thirty by ten ; two, thirty by twenty ; one, thirty by twenty- 

 five ; besides many other smaller ponds. These are not very alarming 

 proportions ; but the reader will see that we practice what we preach, 

 and use small ponds with large supply of water. We use about ten thou- 

 sand of our adult fish as breeders. We run so much water through the 

 ponSs (never using the same water twice) that we could fill thera, if 

 necessary, with fish, so that the bottom would be entirely hidden from 

 sight, and the fish would do well. Our hatching-house has a capacity 

 for starting two million of eggs ; that is, it will hatch out that number of 

 eggs ; but there would be too many, after hatching, for the amount of 

 water. If we wished to keep them in the troughs, two or three months 

 after hatching, we would not put in more than two hundred thousand. 

 The grounds are being improved, year by year, and are getting to be 

 quite a resort for the summer visitors in the neighborhood. The water 

 in our stream never freezes ; does not fall below forty-five degrees in 

 winter, nor rise above sixty in the hottest summer weather. The volume 

 of water is almost uniform, being very little affected by drouth or rain, 

 and does not vary through the year more than four or five inches. 

 Altogether, it is one of the best places we have ever seen for the pur- 

 pose, and we doubt if it can be equalled. 



Most of our States have laws relating to the protection offish, similar 

 intone to that of New York. We give that portion of it relating to 

 Trout, thinking that it may be of use to the breeder. 



