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too carefully impress on his mind the simple truism 

 that no stream can be relied on for more than what it 

 will do in the hottest and dryest day of the hottest 

 and dryest season of the year, and this principle 

 should be acted upon. If, however, you ever happen 

 to have on hand more than you know you can sum- 

 mer in your stream, there is a very simple way to get 

 over the difficulty, and one which I have often re- 

 sorted to, namely, to turn some of the trout out to 

 pasture through the dry time. I mean by this to 

 carry them off to some neighboring brook where 

 you have provided a temporary enclosure for them 

 through the dangerous crisis ; this is not a difficult 

 matter, and if you want the spawn from them in the 

 fall it is expedier^t to do it, taking the precaution to 

 remove them on cool mornings when the transporta- 

 tion and handling will not be likely to hurt them. 



If you have too many on hand in the spring, and 

 have no means of pasturing them, then kill and sell 

 them for what you can get while they are in good con- 

 dition ; it is better than to have them die of the heat. 

 If you know of no one that w^ants them, then pack 

 them in ice, and consign them to some good firm in 

 Fulton Fish Market, New York City, to sell on com- 

 mission. Fresh brook trout are always in demand 

 there. 



But if the dry time comes suddenly, and you are 

 caught with too many trout on hand and a short supply 

 of water, you have two remedies. One is to use ice; 

 if you are not in a very bad predicament, a moderate 

 quantity of ice, used three hours a day, — the hot 



