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young fry again, and if in spring water, give them 

 earth twice a week. Set things in order, observe the 

 progress of your experiments if you have any, see that 

 everything is left right, and then, if no accident has 

 happened, your work is done for the morning. 



In the afternoon you feed the young fry again twice 

 and the yearlings once, leave things right for the night, 

 and the work is done for the day, if it is a fair day. 

 If it is a rainy day, the streams and screens will need 

 more watching and care, and there will perhaps be 

 gates and flash-boards to alter. 



You will also during the summer probably have 

 some improvements to make, and some changing and 

 sorting of the young fry, if you have many. 



As the spawning season approaches, there will be, 

 among other things, in addition to the routine work, 

 the spawning races to clear out and bed with clean 

 gravel, the hatching troughs to clean out and prepare 

 for use, new flannel filters to make, moss to get in for 

 packing the eggs, traps to set, and special precautions 

 to take against the fall freshets. 



After the spawning season begins, there will be the 

 feeding, the spawning the fish, the laying down of the 

 eggs, orders to fill, and the daily examination of the 

 eggs. If you secure a good impregnation this latter 

 job will not be much, but if you have poor luck im- 

 pregnating, it will be a great burden all through the 

 winter, increasing every day till long after the fish be- 

 gin to hatch. After the hatching commences, and the 

 empty eggs are all picked out, there is a lull in the 

 work till the new fry begin to feed. It is then very 



