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DOMESTICATED TROUT. 



adding to the world's wealth at the rate of millions of 

 salmon a year. The short-sighted inspector, sacrifcing 

 the vast public good that could come from it to his private 

 animosity, like the dog in the manger, will neither do any- 

 thing himself, nor let any one else do anything with it. 

 The good it might do and the credit it might reflect on 

 his administration are sacrificed to carry out his childish 

 threat; and there the establishment still remains, closed 

 and useless, a monument of the inspector's malevolence 

 and imbecility. 



I am happy to say that the United States Congress has 

 this year (1872) made an appropriation for salmon-breeding 

 on the Pacific coast, and that in future salmon eggs will 

 probably be obtained within the limits of the United States 

 on even a larger scale than they could be procured on the 

 Mirimichi. 



