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in November and December '1862 was about 250,000 ; in 1863 

 (last spawning) about 80,000. The reason that so few eggs were 

 got during the last spawning-season was the unfavorable state of 

 the river for netting operations." 



One of the greatest results in practical fish-hatching has been 

 obtained by my friend Mr. Thomas Ashworth, and his brother, 

 for they have actually peopled with salmon Lochs Mask and 

 Corrib, an area of lakes containing thirty-five acres of water. In 

 1861, Mr. Ashworth laid down 659,000 salmon-eggs; he being, in 

 his own words, " confident that he could breed salmon much 

 easier than lambs." In December 1862 he deposited no less than 

 770,000 salmon-eggs, making in the two years 1,429,000. Mr. 

 Ashworth tells me that the total cost of doing this has been 

 exceedingly small. 



Fish-Culture in Norway: By Key. 31. K. Barnard. 



During the last ten years, the attention of the Norwegian 

 Oovernment has been directed towards the propagation of salmon 

 by artificial means. In a country like the Scandinavian peninsula, 

 which has such an extent of seaboard, and which abounds in rivers 

 large and small, running into fiords which intersect the coast, 

 there are so many natural facilities afibrded for the protection of 

 the young fish, that it only requires some additional attention on 

 the part of the inhabitants themselves to make Norway stand at 

 the head of the salmon-producing countries of Europe. 



Fully alive to the disadvantages which many parts of the coun- 

 try labor under in an agricultural respect, owing to the rigor of 

 winter and the unfertile nature^ of the soil, the government, with 

 a laudable generosity, has endeavored to promote the propaga- 

 tion of fish by rendering pecuniary assistance, and by the appoint- 

 ment of ofl&cers to superintend in the management of the operation. 



It is somewhat remarkable that the artificial propagation of fish 

 was first discovered in Norway by a simple laboring man in 

 1848. One harvest-time he had been obliged to keep at home on ac- 

 <;ountof a bad leg. To amuse himself he used to get down to the 

 jiver-side and watch the trout on their spawn-ground. Being of 



* The whole area of Norway is about 121,800 square miles, of which 

 aot more than 1,060 are under cultivation. 



