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room and carpenter's shop combined ; these can be 

 together as well as not. They are required, because 

 a great amount of lumber, old screens and screen- 

 frames, pails and pans not in use, and a thousand 

 other things, will collect about the place, which you 

 will want to have under cover and in a dry place. 

 Then there is so much little work constantly to be 

 done, — what is called in New England "puttering," — 

 that a carpenter's bench and tools are almost indis- 

 pensable, the more so because what needs to be done 

 must often be done at once, before one can send for a 

 carpenter to come and do it. 



3. An office is a very desirable thing about a trout- 

 breeding establishment. It is almost as indispensable, 

 in fact, as the carpenter's bench, unless your house is 

 right on the spot. 



The office will be your comfortable room, where 

 you can keep a fire, can transact business, make your 

 microscopic examinations, examine the progress of ex- 

 periments, take notes, do your writing, receive orders, 

 and keep your record-books and show-case of speci- 

 mens. Indeed, so many things call for such a room 

 that no establishment is complete without it. 



4. An ice-house is absolutely necessary, unless you 

 can depejid upon ice, whenever you want it, from out- 

 side sources ; and even then it is desirable. In trans- 

 porting live fish, young or old, you cannot do without 

 ice, except in cold weather, and you may sometimes 

 need it for the meat-house ; you will frequently need ice 

 unexpectedly, and you must have it for shipping your 

 large fish to market. Have an ice-house, then, by all 



