CHAPTER III. 

 BUILDINGS. 



THE hatching house is the one essential building in 

 fish breeding ; but a thorough trout-breeding es- 

 tablishment should have, besides the hatching house, 

 several other buildings or rooms, as, for instance, a 

 meat-room, carpenter's shop, and ice-house. It is not, 

 of course, necessary to have a separate building for all 

 these, but each one should have at least a separate 

 room. 



The reader inquires at once, I suppose, why the 

 hatching house will not answer for all of these pur- 

 poses, except, possibly, the ice-house. The reason is 

 this ; if you engage in hatching on any considerable 

 scale, you will have water running through the house 

 in great quantities, half the year, and perhaps all the 

 year round. The result will be that this house will be 

 the dampest place you ever were in, and everything in 

 it, that moisture can hurt, will be spoiled. Tools will 

 rust, the firewood will not burn, the kindlings will be 

 soaked, your scales, microscopes, matches, pails, pans, 

 and papers, — everything, in fact, will become intolera- 

 bly damp. 



Then, again, the hatching house, being built for the 

 use of water, should not contain anything that would 



